Pe.--farewell to an old friend

PE. watches as Aubvey and Pansi get ready for a show
I have to take my old cat P.E. and have him put to sleep tomorrow. His kidneys have been failing for quite a while. He can't swallow any more. I no longer think the gristle he ate has anything to do with it. That was just his last hurrah to steal the chicken leg off my plate and gorge himself before I got to him and took it away. Maybe because of his system failure he couldn't digest it properly. We got P.E. when my son was 2 years old. The vet didn't expect him to live because his liver wasn't working properly. I let him eat as much as he wanted to absorb calories. He became big and fat. He was fat until a couple of years ago when he apparently got bitten by a recluse spider and ended up losing a lot of the cartilage in his back legs. He was still doing ok though. Then it became apparent that his kidneys are failing. He was drinking a lot and peeing a lot. There is really nothing you can do for a cat with kidney failure, its just a matter of time. And P.E.'s time has come. He is miserable right now.