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- 16 de Dic, 2023
Still not entirely sure what happened.
I think it is likely the theory you have come up with is correct. What happened is that cats are exceptionally good at hiding if they are sick or injured until they are just about ready to crunk. I can't tell you how many times I've seen it between working at a vet when I was younger and having owned a number of cats over the years. More than once I thought something was a little off about one of my cats and I brought them to the vet out of an abundance of caution. The vet checks them out and says "Thank god you came in when you did, in 24 hours you likely wouldn't have had a cat." and by the diagnosis I know there wasn't a shred of hyperbole in what they said.
You own cats over a long enough period of time you start to develop a 6th sense for it. It's like my favorite old tomcat that died a few years ago. Nothing was overtly, or clinically wrong with him. I just knew his time was up. One of my friends came over and I said "I don't think he'll live to see Monday" and they looked shocked and asked "What?! Is he terminally ill or something?" I said "No, but it's just a feeling I have that I can't shake" and they brushed it off and said "Don't worry, I'm sure he is fine". 36 hours later I woke up to find that he'd passed away in his sleep in one of his favorite sleeping spots. I wasn't surprised, so at least I wasn't shocked when I found him, for what little that is worth.