Smoky's Gone

Last night when I was outside with Owen & Kael I noticed that one of our barn cats wasn't using his left hind leg. I waited until my dh got home and then I took old Smoke into the clinic so that I could sedate him to check out his leg - it was too painful to do it without sedation. Well there were puncture wounds & he had a torn cruciate. He would have had to have had surgery and live indoors for at least 6 weeks (which he hates - we tried it when we first moved here) and he was also quite old so I made the difficult decision to put him to sleep.

Smoky came with the house - when we moved in he was already living in the barn. He was an awesome cat and he will be missed.