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Tonight we said good bye to our loving and beautiful family member, our Siamese Cat, Cleo. If you are interested in finding out how we got to this point please read, A Hit and Run in Wellington That Makes No Sense.

We spent this last day with Cleo and then brought him to the Animal Hospital in Wellington Florida on Greenview Shores in the old Winn Dixie Plaza next to our Chiropractor's office, Dr. Dressner.  My daughter, my little one and I went to the hospital with him. 

After some time in the examination room we discovered the following:

The car had just nipped him near his tail and had not done any damage. All of his bones were strong and intact. His spine was fine. The paralysis was caused by a stroke. He had a bad heart,  one of his kidneys was no longer working right, his liver was shrinking and he also has swallowed a dime at some point in his life and it was in his stomach releasing toxins. The clot traveled down to his legs and caused them to become paralyzed. He had no feelings in his legs, he could not posture to go to the bathroom and he was upset because he could no longer walk. The prognosis was a less than 15% chance of recovery. He was not a patient for surgery due to his heart condition. So after informing all of my kids about the prognosis; my daughter, Nestor and I decided it was best to help put him to rest. The doctor also believed this was the best thing to do. 

It was a very sad moment, lots of tears, but a farewell was the humane and decent action to take. He has been in our family for 13 years and in a cat's life that is like 75 years old. He had a great life with us. When he was two years old  I began breeding his Siamese line. He was a great stud. We have many of his offspring around the country in good homes. We stopped breeding him about 7 years ago. The biggest memory is one of fun and lots of talking. He talked about everything as is usual with Siamese cats.  

When I was explaining to our 5 year old son what was going on I asked him if he understood that we were not going to be seeing Cleo again he stated with surety," He is going to Heavenly Father and then coming back to us as an Angel." The faith of a child! God Bless our Cleo and looking at the glass half full we are appreciating the memories and treasure the time we had together with him. He richly blessed our lives for many years.  

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My 21 year old daughter has been on bed rest since her fourth month in her pregnancy. She is 7 months along now. She is allowed to take showers and not much else. I let Cleo, our beautiful Chocolate Point Siamese cat out to go to the bathroom this morning. And then I took my son to some of his homeschool activities. When we got home, I got busy straight away with listings and such. 

Then my daughter asked me if I had seen Cleo. I said not that I can recall. She said something in her gut told her to go look for him. We live in a wonderful neighborhood and we know all our neighbors except for about 2 newer families that have moved in the neighborhood. Both have teenagers at home and we have started to hear the loud boom boxes from one of the cars and driving faster than the rest of us do in our peaceful neighborhood.

Milet, my daughter went outside and called his name. He always comes running when he hears his name. Well, he did not come running this time. He was crying to let Milet know where he was. He had been hit by a car. Cleo is such a wonderful cat. He walks on a leash when we travel. He talks to us all day! He has the most striking blue eyes which you can not see in the photos because he is not feeling well enough to look up at me to take his photo. He is trained to go to the bathroom outside and does not even have a litter box. All the neighbors love him as he visits around our little street with not much traffic to speak of. So someone hit him and did not even bother to come and tell us what happened. They just hit and ran and left him there to fend for himself.

The amazing thing is that he somehow pulled himself back into our back yard and settled down behind our shed in a shady area. He called for Milet and when she found him he could not walk. His hind legs are not working. We were afraid he had nerve damage but then a couple of hours ago he began to move his tail. That is a good sign. We are all taking turns taking care of him until the morning when his vet will take xrays of this bottom half of his body. Then we will know what his prognosis is.

Cleo was born in 1994 and has traveled much of the country with us. When I bought him he was a female. His testicles were receded up inside of him so everyone including my vet thought he was a girl and so we named her Cleopatra, Cleo for short. Well, about 2 months later we noticed he had the signs of being a male. We brought him back to the vet who explained that this happens with cats at times. We decided to keep him anyways. He was used to his name so we just changed it to Cleopatrick. 

Here he is laying on the couch with Milet tonight. We are all praying for him tonight. 

Many of you have been commenting on my posts that I wrote this week and I was planning to get back to all your comments tonight but then this happened. I am sorry and I will get back to each and every one of you that have commented on my posts today and yesterday. It may be a couple of days or so as we must take care of Cleo first. Thank you for your understanding hearts. 

If anyone knows or has any information regarding the car that hit Cleo please email us at our address to the right in our profile. We appreciate any help in this matter. There are new tire skid marks about one house down from us on  the corner of Cherry Lane and Jonquil in the Sugar Pond Manor Development in Wellington Florida.

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Take the kids, walk the dogs, take a stroll in one of the many parks that adorn Wellington. When Wellington Florida was first envisioned in the early 60's; it was decided that in this master planned unit development that there would be many parks and green spaces. This has held up over the years here. Families move here because of the great parks and softball fields. Join me on a photo tour of one of our parks in Sugar Pond Manor, in Wellington. This park is called Foresteria Park. Children love this park. It lies on a canal with private homes abutting it on all sides. 

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