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Throwback to Mammoth Cave National Park last month

Throwback to Mammoth Cave National Park last month!

Lake house sunrise 🌅

Lake house sunrise 🌅

Drone shots from Saguaro National Park 🚁

Drone shots from Saguaro National Park 🚁

Man Imitates Saguaro, Saguaro National Park. Part

Man Imitates Saguaro, Saguaro National Park. Part 2.

Scenes from the desert, 2024. Part 1. 🌵☀️👢

TW: death, and details leading up to it. Major dow

TW: death, and details leading up to it. Major downer.

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We had to say goodbye to Melbourne and Maddie yesterday.

One was expected, the other wasn't.

We made the appointment to put Melbourne down at home at 11am. I took the morning off of work and spent his final hours hanging out with him on the couch. He had stopped eating on Monday morning and started deteriorating pretty quickly after that. We knew that this day would come soon and did our best to make him as comfortable as possible in his final weeks with us.

Maddie had also stopped eating on Monday. We thought it was because she sensed that something was going on with Melbourne; she had been acting normal up until now. The two of them spent part of Monday night hanging out behind the futon with each other. It wasn't until after Melbourne passed that she came out of my office crying—she isn't normally a vocal cat. Mango ran over to say hi to her, and she didn't react—also strange because Maddie tends to avoid Mango like the plague. We took her to the emergency vet in the evening. Her heart was arrhythmic, and she was anemic. We decided to give her a blood transfusion, but as the vet techs prepared her for the procedure, they found a mass in her mammary glands—likely a malignant tumor. At that point, she was becoming more and more unresponsive. With the tumor, the vet said there was a high chance the blood transfusion wouldn't take. We had to make the difficult decision to say goodbye to Maddie as well.

October 24, 2023. It's also Mango's third birthday. I'd like to think the cats did this to spite the dog, but it's more likely that I'm just trying to find the humor in a completely terrible situation. I know they're just animals, but they're also family. We spent the past month emotionally preparing ourselves for Melbourne, but Maddie was so sudden. Both of them were fine last week, running into the room at the crack of the cat food can, inhaling their food before we could even scoop it out of the can. Now the house is quiet with no cats around to step on my hair when I'm sleeping. No litter tracked on the table. The only peace is knowing they aren't in pain anymore.

RIP Melbourne and Maddie

UVA, Rosslyn Farm, IX Park, Vineyards, and Mango i

UVA, Rosslyn Farm, IX Park, Vineyards, and Mango is Embarrassing 🍷🥭

Continuing the photo dump / #later grams. Ate myse

Continuing the photo dump / #later grams. Ate myself silly on this trip.

Quick pit stop at JMU and Shenandoah National Park

Quick pit stop at JMU and Shenandoah National Park / Skyline Drive 🌄

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