Oramorph and teh fluffeh
My Mum has a broken back and has been on oramorph for many years. This is a woman who can handle her MASSIVE DRUGS. She's completely addicted to it but as the NHS provides, she seems okay with that.

Anyway, her elderly cat was very ill and, being rather tight and on a limited income, my mum decided that it would be better to just load the cat in to the old Honda Accord, hire him a few supermodels for the back seat and give him MASSIVE DRUGS in the form of an OD of her oramorph than to take him to the vet for the "final solution".

Cat gets rounded up and administered with 10 ml through a dropper. Result? Cat sleeps nicely for two hours then wakes up and seems a lot better. However, the next day the cat is back in a sorry state and clearly needs that appointment with the reaper. Cat is once again rounded up and this time administered with 20ml. This time the moggy sleeps all night but still somehow evades the white light.

At this point the fun and games stopped as my Mum fell very ill and was hospitalised. I visited Mum at the hospital and she was desperately worried about her poor cat and asked me to have him put down for her. I then had to take the sick kitty for his last injection and bury him in Mum's garden. The worst part was telling her that I'd done as she'd asked me to on my next visit. She just cried and cried and I felt like a murderer.

Sorry about the lack of funnies toward the end, but the first half makes people laugh when I tell it.

Despite the Honda references this one is actually true.

First post. What have I done!
(Booce, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 16:11, 6 replies)

Aw, this is another one where "I like this" is just the wrong name for it...
*clicks anyway*
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 16:26, closed)

Yaaaaaaaay first post and I get a clicky! Thanks Prof.
(Booce, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 16:57, closed)

Aww
I wouldn't feel too guilty, the vet only did what your mum was trying to do, just with needles. The poor thing was suffering anyway. And the first part did make me laugh :)

*Click*
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:10, closed)

Hard though
Thanks for the sympathy, I know I did the right thing, it was just heartbreaking to actually do it. Glad the first bit made you laugh though, the idea of my mum offing her cat with MASSIVE DRUGS made me laugh too. I didn't actually intend to go in to the sad bit, just wanted to relate the funny, but it didn't seem right not to finish the tale.
(Booce, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 10:53, closed)

One of my old flatmates
has a dad who is a doctor. Apparently when he (my flatmate) was a kid, their cat got sick, so they decided to put it down. Rather than fork out for a vet's bill, his dad decided to just get some morphine from his surgery (mid 80s, I guess controls were not as strict?) and OD the cat. So, they got a syringe and a vial of morphine and shot the cat up with a dose that would be fatal for a human. Just like in the above story, the cat slept for about a day before waking up none the worse for wear.

Maybe cats are just immune to morphine?
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 3:36, closed)

Cats immune to oramorph
Wierd eh? Kind of glad to see my Mum isn't the only one to have tried this :-) Maybe he just needed 100 ml of catnip...
(Booce, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 10:55, closed)