Annabelle was a lovely Cream Persian we adopted from a rescue agency after her previous owner surrendered her. She was about 3 years old when she became part of our family. She was extremely loving, playful, smart and loved to play all sorts of games with her cat toys. She would also play hide & seek with her human "Mommy". Annabelle was a very vocal, communicative cat; she had many different types of meows and other vocalizations. Her purr was very soothing and musical. Annabelle was a great high-jumper: she could jump up swiftly about 3 feet from the ground, even into her 10th year of life. Annabelle's eyes resembled huge, round harvest moons and her coat color had hues of autumn orange mixed in with soft white and buff beige. Her golden eyes and warm coat colors prompted her human Mommy to call her "Pumpkin" as an affecectionate nickname. We didn't change her original name of Annabelle, because she seemed to know that name when we first adopted her. Otherwise, we may have changed her name to Pumpkin. Annabelle lived almost 7 years in her forever home and she was well-loved and cared for. She was best friends with the family dog, a black lab mix named Mona. She also lived well with other cats in the home. Annabelle was in very good health until she underwent a surgical dental cleaning and a couple tooth extractions. Four days after she'd had the dental work done at the vet hospital, she went into respiratory distress. This condition worsened quickly resulting in many vet office visits, and a lot of hospitalization the last several days of her life. When her family was told by the vet there was no hope of improvement, we asked the kind Dr. to euthanize our dear girl to end her pain. We also arranged for the veterinary science department at Texas A & M University to do a necropsy to determine cause of death. Annabelle died of a bulla (a sac-like structure filled with air) on her lung which caused that lung to rupture and collapse. Despite repeated efforts to save our girl's life, it is doubtful that any doctor could have saved her, since the underlying problem couldn't be found until necropsy. We mourn the loss of our little Annabelle and we will truly miss her joyful presence in our home.
Annabelle was a lovely Cream Persian we adopted from a rescue agency after her previous owner surrendered her. She was about 3 years old when she became part of our family. She was extremely loving, playful, smart and loved to play all sorts of games with her cat toys. She would also play hide & seek with her human "Mommy". Annabelle was a very vocal, communicative cat; she had many different types of meows and other vocalizations. Her purr was very soothing and musical. Annabelle was a great high-jumper: she could jump up swiftly about 3 feet from the ground, even into her 10th year of life. Annabelle's eyes resembled huge, round harvest moons and her coat color had hues of autumn orange mixed in with soft white and buff beige. Her golden eyes and warm coat colors prompted her human Mommy to call her "Pumpkin" as an affecectionate nickname. We didn't change her original name of Annabelle, because she seemed to know that name when we first adopted her. Otherwise, we may have changed her name to Pumpkin. Annabelle lived almost 7 years in her forever home and she was well-loved and cared for. She was best friends with the family dog, a black lab mix named Mona. She also lived well with other cats in the home. Annabelle was in very good health until she underwent a surgical dental cleaning and a couple tooth extractions. Four days after she'd had the dental work done at the vet hospital, she went into respiratory distress. This condition worsened quickly resulting in many vet office visits, and a lot of hospitalization the last several days of her life. When her family was told by the vet there was no hope of improvement, we asked the kind Dr. to euthanize our dear girl to end her pain. We also arranged for the veterinary science department at Texas A & M University to do a necropsy to determine cause of death. Annabelle died of a bulla (a sac-like structure filled with air) on her lung which caused that lung to rupture and collapse. Despite repeated efforts to save our girl's life, it is doubtful that any doctor could have saved her, since the underlying problem couldn't be found until necropsy. We mourn the loss of our little Annabelle and we will truly miss her joyful presence in our home.
