Not a Silly Saturday ....

... as we had to let our handsome Simba go today. 

For the past week or so Simba has refused to eat ... taking one or two licks of his food and then walking away. And that's after five days of being on an appetite stimulant.  

We returned to the vet clinic today and had to make the heart-wrenching decision to let him go.  With us going on vacation next week (bad timing!) we just didn't want anything to happen whilst we were away.  I didn't want to put that responsibility on our cat/house sitter .... or the wonderful neighbor who said she would come over and check on him at least once a day. 

He is our final cat in a long line dating back to the beginning of our marriage in 1984.  We adopted our first cat probably within 6-7 months of getting married and have had at least one cat ever since.  This will be the first time without one.  Ironically the vet clinic has today as his birthday .... although I think it was closer to September 2001. 

Both this picture and the extra were taken before we went to the vet.  We were almost positive of what the outcome was going to be so we were both taking lots of pictures of him today. You can almost see the sadness in his eyes.  I know you can see it in ours. 

We are heartbroken ... to say the least. 

♥ RIP Simba: March 2001 ~ March 23, 2019 ♥