Marshmallow has crossed over The Rainbow Bridge - We are very sad.

Marshmallow was a quiet, large, mostly white Calico. She was an owner-surrendered cat.

I think Jan said it best:

"When her previous owners brought her in to the shelter, they said it was because of their baby being allergic to her...and did NOT want to be called if she was euthanized. (SO, they knew when they brought her in, that she was sick, but they took the easy way out.) With the state of her condition, this just did not start since she was brought into the shelter."

I sat on the floor and held her last week. She wanted to be petted and brushed. The last time I saw Marshmallow she was laying on the kitty sofa and looking out the window. She was out of her cage, and I thought she was truely on the road to recovery.

We wrongly felt Marshmallow needed to get up and move around a little - "all she does is lay on her bed", we commented. We thought she had arthritis and needed to lose some weight.

After being examined by Dr. Hay, we found out she was in renal kidney failure, she had a urinary infection along with it, and her liver was giving out too. Her abdomen was swollen from fluid build-up, plus she had been in pain for some time, we believe. That is why she did not want to move around, and here we were all trying to get her to move about some. Sadly, we didn't realize she was very sick.

This is what she looked like - only a little bigger. If we could have known her at another point in time, things may have been different for her. We will miss you, Marshmallow. Rest in peace little girl. Know that in the final days of your life, you were loved.