Run free and wild, sweet Keida – April 2018
The hits keep coming . . . The day after we lost BoBo my heart was broken again. Our sweet Keida lost the use of his back legs and the kindest thing we could do was help him pass over to his last journey 😢
It’s taken me this long to even write about it, my feelings are so raw from the loss 😢
Looking back we made mistakes especially in the early days and Keida was one of those. In 2001 we took in a bonded pair of servals and were told the female was sterile because she was an old girl. The next year we were shocked by discovering she was pregnant and Keida was born. We were surprised and disappointed that we had been so foolish but knew he would always have a home with us.
Keida was a sweet boy, always playing with toys, and he loved his companions ❤️ He lived with three other servals his entire life and they were very close. Sadly in 20015 just after we moved to the new site in Scotts Mills, we lost two of them, Sadie in September followed by Keisa in November 😢 Then in May of 2016 we lost Kenya and Keida was alone. He was still the sweet boy we knew but it was obvious that it was harder and harder for him to get around.
Keida had always had a wobbly back end and as he got older it got worse. X-rays showed spondylosis in his spine and all we could do was manage his pain. We did acupuncture, medication and everything we could do to relieve his condition and for a while, it seemed to work. But these past few months it was clear that we had a limited time left with him. The morning he couldn’t get up and walk I knew it was time to let him go 😢
Keida shared our lives for sixteen years and was nothing but a joy to care for. In my mind’s eye, I’ll always see him as that little kitten that had such a sweet, happy demeanor. One of the cruelest tricks of life is they get older 😔
Safe travels Keida I hope that Sadie, Keisa, and Kenya will be there to meet you ❤️ (Thank you, Dr. Cherie Connolly, for your kindness, it means so much)
