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Killing Kitty
Stacey Anyan on love, death and losing a best friend.
The writer’s younger son Oscar, then 16 months, getting some snuggle time with beloved family puss Kitty.
One summer’s day I found myself wondering, what will happen to Kitty when she gets really old? She was about 14, and in the past week I’d noticed her breath was super smelly; however, I held off from taking her to the vet because her previous instances of pungent breath had incurred eye-wateringly expensive dental work. In her dotage, I wondered, would Kitty look mangy? Would she become incontinent? Would Gavin, my cat-intolerant husband, insist she be euthanized?