Struggling to get over kitties death

Lulupie

Hi all, so I posted last week about my cat dying. It's been a week and a day since her death and I'm as devastated as I was when I walked into the room and she was gone.

It feels like it was her fate to die. And I don't know why because she was just a year old.

That day, my dog was very irritated with the other dogs (we adopted, story about them to follow). She had fought with them in the day before I left for work. What I normally would have done, is drop her off at my mom's house to get away. But that day, my sister wasn't there (she was supposed to have come home from my dad's place in the morning). So I had no choice but to leave her.

The plumbers. They were two DAYS late. Had they just come on time, this would have been different. They left seconds before the attack.

My husband walked outside to let them back in literally as it was happening. We rushed her to the vet immediately. She needed a few stitches but the vet said she'd be fine.

She seemed to be struggling to recover from the anaesthesia, but as it had not yet been 24 hours since the surgery I wasn't stressed. I figured that she was also on strong painkillers.

When I went into that room to check on her, and found her dead, I immediately called the vet to ask him why didn't he give us better postop instructions (IE what to look out for if she went into shock). The vet admitted that he FORGOT to tell us we should have taken her to our regular vet the next morning for a check up (we went to an emergency, after hours vet).

AND, as a big fat slap in the face, the previous owners of the dogs called last night (exactly a week after her death) to ask if they could have their dogs back. Had they called last week, my cat would still be alive.

Her death sounds like it was planned exactly and I'm struggling to accept it or understand why. :(

**We adopted three dogs in March and initially things were fine, but things started to unravel between them and our dog, causing a stressful situation. We were in touch with a behaviourist who was supposed to assess them this week.