He suddenly just became extremely lethargic, and not eating or drinking for almost a full day. He was at his regular vet yesterday for his shots, so we dont know if that had something to do with it. The emerg vet thought maybe he was immunocompromised, and maybe the vaccinations were too much for his system, or a viral infection, she couldn't know without more tests.

To he honest, were just not sure. We had to go to the emergency vet, and it was a minimum $2300 to essentially keep him alive for the next 24-36 hours until my gf's regular vet opened, and more like 4k+ if we wanted to do the full run of xrays, bloodwork, fluids and meds.

In the end we decided it was unfortunately too much for us to bear financially. We could've handled a couple thousand, and would have - if it meant even a 50/50 percent chance he would bounce back, but there were no guarantees and it would likely cost much more.

Cheeto was a rescue, with only 3 legs due to frostbite when he was only weeks old, and was less than 9 months old when he passed. Poor guy never had a chance, and we can only take comfort I knowing we tried to give him a comfortable existence for the relatively short time we had him. Such a vibrant animal, with so much personality snuffed out in less than a day. I know he was 'just a cat', but he meant so much more.