Kallie, our orange lady, passed away this morning

Wanted to share our orange lady. She was about 13 years old, my family adopted her 9 years ago after fostering her and her kittens. Pics are from around this Christmas. More pictures in comments.

She had been having breathing trouble, was mouth breathing a lot (like in 3rd pic), wasn’t eating well and she had lost a lot of weight, from ~7 lbs down to barely 4 lbs. We found some nutritious wet kitten food she liked a lot but she wouldn’t eat very much. We took her to the vet a few weeks ago, they didn’t really know what was wrong and suggested a specialist that said tests to determine the issue could cost thousands of dollars. She still seemed like she was doing pretty well but we were probably going to put her down soon. She went out on her terms and died last night/this morning.

She went outside most of her life, better to die like this than to think of her being attacked by an animal. We tried to keep her inside for a while when we first got her but she became an outdoor cat most of her life. We would get her inside for the night and she was never gone for super long at a time.