One of my cats died last year -- we came home from a long vacation and it turned out our little one decided we'd never come back and stopped eating. :( We rushed him to the clinic and the doc did what he could, but our poor kitty didn't last much longer. The doc called us right away, and as we weren't really in a mood to talk from grief, he knew we couldn't really be intelligent about anything. The next day I called - the doc offered to let us come in and see him or just have him cremated and sent to a pet cemetary at no charge (since we didn't want a grave or anything). Very nice and gentle, considering how we felt
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