TL;DR at the end
Almost 2 years ago my cat had to be put down at the aprox. age of 6 years old bc she was severly injured at her diaphragm. a few days before she was put down, I noticed she was limping and had a small thorn on her limping leg, so I tried pulling it out, the stupidity of the act pains me to write about it in retrospect.
The thorn didn't budge, and my cat was annoyed so she ran off across the road. Keep in my mind my cat used to go in and out of the house as she pleased, bc she would always come back and didn't tend to go out much and not for longer than a few hours. Knowing this, and still being worried about the limping, My family and i went on a 2 day trip (don't worry we had our neighbour check on her, but he didn't see her), and when we came back we saw that our cat came back as well, but she had an open wound where the thorn used to be.
The next day we took her to the vet and she gave us meds to give her, I was relieved to think she was gonna be ok, but that evening she collapsed and started panting heavily, so we rushed her to an emergency vet and bc it was very late at nigh.
The vets told us that she was probably ran over recently (probably while my family were on a trip), and they couldn't perform the necessary surgery on the spot, so instead of waiting until morning and risking her dying in pain through the night, we decided to euthanize her.
Almost 2 years have passed since, and many times when I think about her, I can't help but think how dumb I was when I tried pulling out the thorn, and that if I didn't do that, she wouldn't have ran away and consequently ran over. Now I thought about it again and the guilt made me feel like a terrible person and pet owner, and I just want to know if I deserve/should feel like this.
TL;DR: Feel like my actions got my cat to be injured and then put down, and I feel like absolute shit.
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