Safe travels beautiful boy – June 2020
Sam
It’s been said bad things happen in threes 😔 Losing our residents is always painful but three in the last month have been very hard to process. Sadly, we lost Sam, another one of the servals at WildCat Ridge Sanctuary 😢
Sam had been showing signs of renal failure over the past year and we were monitoring it. He’d been in for an exam this past April, however last week when we took him in again to see Dr. Connolly at Compass Vet Clinic the change was so dramatic that we had no choice but to let him go. He was eighteen years old and had been with us since 2011 😢
Sam was a beautiful boy who originally came from a woman who had purchased him to use as a breeder. He was declawed on all four feet and lived in a 200 square foot cage. That was his life for nine years until his owner contacted us. She was in failing health and could no longer care for him. We made arrangements immediately to go pick him up. Sam was a very sweet and social cat who was one of the most talkative servals. He lived with Rasta and I know she misses him as much as we do.
The thought of never hearing him talk to us again is so sad but knowing that he’s no longer in pain eases the sadness at least a little. Safe travels beautiful boy, we miss you very much and thinking about you will always make us smile through the tears 😢
