My beloved AC died today.

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He had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He was doing great on all his meds. for the past year, then this morning collapsed in pain and couldn't use his back legs, probably due to a loosened blood clot, so the emergency vet and I agreed it was time to let him go.

He was a wonderful good boy, who had been rescued about 5.5 years ago, after being dumped by a previous owner, declawed, to fend for himself in the city, outside in the middle of winter. Here he is just before I adopted him, after the rescue group had nursed him up to 7 lbs. from his starvation weight:



He was gentle and sweet and loved to go outside in his privacy-fenced back yard, and would "hunt" for his toys, as some of you may have seen in my prior posts about him here.

Here he is rolling around on his patio:



I loved him to pieces.