A little girl put Smokey in a paper bag when he was about 5 weeks old and threw him in a dumpster behind a restaurant. The restaurant owner saw this and took him inside and fed him and gave him a warm place to sleep. While in that restaurant having a glass of root beer the owner came up to me and asked if I wanted a kitten. I knew my wife did not want a cat but he was so precious so I decided to take him home. What a wonderful addition to our family! He loved us to death and we reciprocated.
On Easter Sunday in the afternoon I was talking to my daughter on the phone. My wife had been taking a nap. She motioned to me that she thought Smokey had died. She said he had some sort of seizure under the bed because he had been thrashing about and kicking the box springs. She pulled him out from under the bed and it appeared he was alive but very listless. We immediately put him in his carrier and got him in the car and headed straight for the emergency Veterinary Clinic in a town about 12 miles away. We entered the clinic and they immediately put us in an examination room. Smokey then went into another seizure so we notified the assistant and they immediately took him and the vet hooked him to a valium IV. The vet then took a blood sample. His acidity was high, he had a heart murmur, and the prognosis was very poor. We had already spent over a $1000 on him and we felt we had no alternative other than to put him to sleep.
My wife stayed in the room and watched while the Docter gave Smokey the lethal injection. I was such a big boob-I could not bear to see that done so I went out in the waiting room. A while later Smokey was brought out in a little white cardboard box shaped like a casket and we took him home and buried him in our front yard. It was an extremely emotional time as Smokey and I were so very close. My wife would never let him sleep on our bed but the night before his death I talked her into letting us sleep with us, which he did. That was so special!
Smokey is now in a better place. We miss you so much. little Smokes!