Heron Rescue 2007

Summer, 2007
July 26th, 2007, was one of the saddest days we have experienced as a staff. It was the day we had to say good-bye to Rudy, one of our clinic cats.

Rudy had cancer of the throat and mouth and this illness had gone undetected until that morning. The cancer was discovered while staff members were preparing to anesthetize him to clean his teeth. Dealing with death and euthanasia is never easy. It is a difficult part of our job. But this was our Rudy. This was incredibly heartbreaking.

Those of us who were not working that day made a mad dash to the clinic to be with Rudy as we all said good-bye. Many tears were shed and such a void was created in our little “family”.