Kitten Pictures ~ 1998 - 2001 In Pictures ~ June 2002: The Last Pictures
at around 3:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, August 7, 2002 at the Woburn Animal Hospital in Woburn, Massachusetts. She was lovingly euthanized so she would have to suffer no longer the serious pain from her heart failure. The heart problems which claimed her young life, at only five years of age, began only a few days before her death, on Sunday, August 4. Originally diagnosed by a Cape Cod animal hospital veterinarian (the family was on vacation at the time) as a virus, she was given medication and sent home after negative x-rays and an IV to replenish what she had lost due to her not eating or drinking. She grew worse over the next couple days, wouldn't eat, hardly took the water placed in her mouth with an eyedropper, and hardly moved. 
On Wednesday morning she had trouble breathing and was rushed to the animal hospital where she was given tests and doted on by a caring veterinarian staff. They could not find a pulse and there was fluid in her lungs. The choice to put her to sleep was made when she grew even worse and her lips turned blue.
She was a very pampered cat and, in her latter years, spent much time laying around, looking out every window, begging for food, playing with toy mice, and just being her cute self. (As a kitten, she was extremely playful and would go manic around nine o'clock every night, when her eyes would grow dark and she'd run fast around the house in the playful spirit of a young one.)