sad day at Whiskers

Today was a sad day for those of us at Whiskers. Two of our feline brothers went today to the Rainbow Bridge.
Milkdud was one of our special FIV positive guys, who had been fighting a slow growing cancer for years, but today he lost the fight, the vet found a massive inoperable tumor in his abdomen.
Werner was an elderly guy, who was living in a foster home. He had been sick lately with chronic renal problems which rapidly escalated over the past couple of days, and yesterday, he became paralyzed in his hind quarters. We think that he realized that his quality of live wouldn't have been too great, with all the fluids (which he hated - it took two people to give Werner fluids, and they had to catch him first ---) and way too many vet visits (he also hated those). So Werner made his own decision. He is now at the Bridge with his twin sister, Louise, who passed from renal failure last year.
So the heavens are richer by the presence of Milkdud and Werner, and we at Whiskers are so much poorer.
Purrfectly, Precious