kchd, I'm so sorry for you. I had to let go of one of my cats in 2013 right before Thanksgiving. Got her from the shelter and only had her 5 days. She had full-blown feline leukemia and the vet that spayed her before I picked her up HAD to know it. But they let me adopt her anyway. It was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make! I picked her out from their website and fell in love with her the minute I saw her, but we gave each other 5 days of unconditional love!