This is my cat Mango.
She died at about 3 o'clock this morning. She was 20 years old. She was gradually going downhill for a long time, but yesterday she suddenly got very sick. She wasn't eating and she was having trouble walking.
In the evening after mum and dad had gone to bed I was up watching TV and also watching her, and she was lying on the floor. Not sleeping, just lying with her eyes open. She sometimes would try to move but she couldn't get up, so she'd just drag herself a little with her front legs. And her breathing was quite laboured. She weed herself, and was kind of dribbling and vomiting up some stomach juices.
Then she started spasming a bit, and she cried like she was in pain. And I think she started to choke on her vomit, so I tried to hold her up so she wouldn't choke.
She then settled down a little, so I went and woke up mum and dad because I knew she was about to go. So we sat with her on the floor. Her breathing was getting less and less. Sometimes she was still, and sometimes she would kind of twitch and spasm, then eventually she stopped breathing.
She was senile and she dribbled and she stank and she pissed on the floor a lot, but she was sweet and affectionate and we loved her.
Bye bye little smelly, I miss you.