Our Kitty

On Sunday, our precious 12 yr old cat (64 in cat yrs) was run over by our new truck, well, his tail was anyways. We had some friends over, and the dads were going out to pick up some food for supper, and next thing I know, Noah came in saying daddy drove over Sabian. One of my worst fears since we moved him out there last April. The cat ran off, and we looked for a bit, but then ate supper. Immediately after supper our friends had to leave and we searched for him again, for 2 hours. Some of our neighbours/friends helped us look too for a little while, we searched peoples back yards (with permission) and couldn't find him anywhere, we weren't sure if he was going somewhere to die, or if he was just mad. So we came inside, and we got the kids ready for bed, and right when Noah was about to go to bed, he happened to look out our bedroom window, which faces the garage, and he saw kitty go into the garage, yah!! So we went out to look at him and discovered he was in fact back in his warm house we built for him. He wouldn't come out, so we decided to leave him for the night. The next day, hubby decided to take the day off to deal with kitty. We went out to the garage first thing, and he wasn't in his house...sigh...we did find him, after a few minutes of being worried. He looked like he wet himself, and he wouldn't drink, or eat his food, or snacks. We took him to the Dr, and they said, after they x-rayed his tail, that it was severed from his spine, and will need to be amputated....they kept him over night, cause they want to make sure that his bladder isn't ruptured, cause if it is, they will have to put him down :( It was a sad sad day at our house yesterday, today is a bit better, waiting to hear from the Dr if he has gone to the bathroom properly or if they think his bladder is ruptured. I will post again when I hear anything!
This is a picture of Sabian when he was suntanning on our van one day, he is such a mellow, laid back kitty!! He has lived with us for almost 12 yrs!! Everybody we talked to on Sunday, knew him, and anybody who'd walk by Sabian always stopped to pet him and comment on what a gorgeous cat he was!!!