Firstly I want to say hello to you all and thank-you for this forum.
On December 14th our first rescue cat Nikki got hit by a car a few doors down from us, the driver didn't even bother to stop!! She was found by a lady in her garden, the lady kindly phoned the vets and they took her in, the vet called me from her microchip details, as he was telling me what had happened I was in total shock, he gave her a prelim X-ray first as she was too distressed to be put under Anaesthesia, early indications were that there was pelvis damage, possible spinal damage and also tail damage
he said that they would keep her comfortable overnight and do further X-rays in the morning.
We have 3 children and I was dreading telling them, especially our middle daughter as Nikki was practically her cat. I tried to be positive considering the circumstances. I hardly slept all night almost dreading the phonecall in the morning. At 10.30am he called and said that the damage was alot worse than they first thought, she was paralysed from the waist down, her pelvis was shattered and her spinal cord shunted. He said that it would not be fair to keep her alive and would I like to come in.
I rushed to the vets and he took me to a treatment room and he brought Nikki in, she was still sleepy from the Anaesthetic and as soon as I saw her I broke down, I hugged her and spoke to her telling her that we all loved her, I told her to be brave. We were left for a few moments, she knew it was me as she tried to get up off the table. I could not believe that I was seeing her like this. The vet came back in and he took off her bandage and put in the blue fluid, within a few seconds she was soundly sleeping....my heart was broken.
Our beautiful Nikki was gone.
Yesterday was awful...we all cried and asked all those questions why? I guess it has been made worse as Christmas is almost here and my Husband and their Dad works away from home, he too took the news terribly also.
Its hard to swallow as it all happened so suddenly...I feel anger towards the person who ran her over!
This morning was hard also, I kept seeing her and feeling her all around the house, again making it hard to bear. Today has been a beautiful day, sun shining, Blue sky and I know that she is at peace now, but the pain is still fresh. We are all at a total loss.
I hope that it gets better with time, and we are all glad that we gave her a good 7 years with a family who loved her dearly, we are just sorry that her life got cut so suddenly.
RIP Nikki