Leila the cat
Animals have feelings and a soul like humans
A lady loved her cat Leila more than anything. A provision for pets policy was taken out to protect her if anything should happen to her. Unfortunately, the owner has now passed away and a sick, weak cat has been taken in at Traisen, a branch of Gut Aiderbichl.
Animals suffer when they lose their owner for any reason
Humans and animals living together, often for years, eventually becomes a nice habit. People know each other, humans and animals are friends, there is trust and love.
An accident, circumstances that force you to give up your pet or death: these are situations from which not only the human suffers, but also the animal.
So it’s good to take precautions. If you own one or more animals, you should consider them to be in need of protection and as family members. Michael Aufhauser was preoccupied with this question for a long time until he launched the Aiderbichl provision for pets. This enables pet owners to make provisions for their animals. The loving and species-appropriate fate of the animal at Gut Aiderbichl is ensured after the owner’s death.
The owner’s death seemed to make Leila even weaker and sicker
Leila was given to her previous owner years ago. The two lived a good life until the lady passed away and Leila was brought to Gut Aiderbichl in accordance with the provision for pets.
Leila made it clear that she was suffering from the loss of her loved one and so her strength was failing, and not just because of her own illnesses. Leila had a huge tumour on her right front paw and was also suffering from a very sick and weak heart.
Her little heart would not have been able to cope with an amputation of her front paw
We wanted to provide Leila with palliative care until her last breath. The vets said that it would be possible to amputate the paw with the bone tumour, but her sick heart would not have been able to cope with this procedure.
So we lovingly tried to give Leila all the love, care and attention she needed in her final days. There was no other way but to accompany her.
Leila demanded food for a few more days, loved to be stroked and even purred: it was a soft, faint purr. Leila’s life candle had run out of steam and so the vet helped her to cross the Rainbow Bridge gently.
It is not important whether the animals at Gut Aiderbichl live many years or a few days under the protection of Gut Aiderbichl. It is important that they are recognised, loved, cherished and cared for.It is important that we make them feel important and let them go at the moment when the animal’s eyes are trying to say: “Now it is important for me to be able to go.”
Dear Leila, take care and enjoy the warm beds in cat heaven.
"You only love what you know, and you only protect what you love."
~ Konrad Lorenz
