We brought Ahab in to our very kind vet this evening, fully expecting to say goodbye and hold him through the end.
There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.
But, after half an hour discussing Ahab’s present situation with Dr. Fitch, she listened to us. We weren’t ready, but thought Ahab was. But then, he looked up at us and reached out a paw to John. Dr Fitch examined Ahab, and said we had a couple more days. We feel like the governor called, Mitt himself.