I hate crying.....but I'm crying now. We had to put our cat to sleep today. We hadn't seen her for five days and were kind of thinking she wouldn't come back. I was out in the back yard checking on my strawberries when I turn to go back in the house and see her hobbling through the yard. At first glance, it looked like she had this giant hunk of fur hanging down on her side...but no, it was her leg. She must have been hit or something, it was broken and all the flesh and fur was gone from it, except for her paw. I ran back into the house to find my sister (because technically it was her cat) and the cat had collapsed in the grass by where our peach tree used to be. We had to take her to the vet and have her put to sleep, there wasn't anything they could have done, she was too far gone. When they were getting the shot ready to inject, she looked up at them and started meowing so pathetically. Then they gave her the shot and she meowed once, like a little kitten. I miss her. But its better now, she was old and arthritic anyways, and it would have just been worse if she was old with a stump for a leg. Poor baby girl...