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For the love of Pets 🇬🇧

Sudden loss of our family cat

So Monday morning we lost our 9 year old cat very suddenly due to an aortic thromboembolism (a blood clot that was in his heart broke off into his body and caused his death).

I recused this cat when he was a few weeks old and had him through every major life event. He was even our 5 month old baby’s best friend, he LOVED to snuggle with us.

I’m really struggling with how to cope and the grief is truly taking over but I know I have to hold it together because mums don’t get a break when someone so tiny needs you at your best.

I guess I’m just looking for anyone who has been in a similar situation and wondering how you coped and how soon things started to feel even the tiniest bit easier?

To make it worse, my partner was on his way back from his friend’s stag-do and didn’t even get to say his goodbyes. We took our cat to the vet yesterday to be sent off for a cremation and he’s going to have a gorgeous little urn that looks just like him (I found the others looked a bit too morbid and wanted something that looked cute without obviously being an urn).

Any advice or support would be truly appreciated as this is my first loss of a pet and I truly can’t see myself ever being used to him not being here 💔