R.I.P. My lil Murf!

Today John and I had to put our lil Kitten Murf down...........
OK To start from the begining, Johns friend Diana found a Kitten about 4 months ago, in the field behind her house, she watched it for a few days and it was obvious that it had been abonded, so she took it in. Diana did not want to keep the kitten because she already had MANY cats of her own. So she told John about it and he fell inlove with it right away. We took the kitten to the vet to make sure that everything was ok with it, and the doctor said that everything looked fine, but he did have a hernia. But the kitten needed to gain weight before anything could be done for it. At that time he weighed 1 lbs, and 8 oz. We decided to keep the kitten and named him MURF. He was been a great joy to our family. Blue our older cat seemed to love having a baby brother to take care of. They would play together, eat together and Blue would even help give Murf baths. Murf seemed to be doing fine. He LOVED to eat and cuddle!! Although I noticed that he really wasent gaining very much weight, or at least not fast enough for our liking. But he was a very happy lil guy. But the last few days he has been really sleepy, he didnt seem too interested in much of anything. he didnt want to eat, he didnt want to play, just sleep, and mostly in just one spot all day. Well, this morning when I got up I notcied that he didnt even want to stand up much, every time I put him to his feet, he'd sit back down just a few seconds later. When food was waved in his face he didnt even glance at it, and when I hel him he seemed really cold to the touch, and very limp body. John and I took Murf to the Dove Lewis center in Downtown protland, they are a clinic/ER/ICU for animals that is open 24/7/365 days a year, they also hlep work with low income people. They took Murf immeditalty, and finally when the Vet came to talk to us he basically said that he had not much hope for him. His Heart rate was very slow, he was only 92 degrees (when cats should be 100 and something), and now he only weighed 1 lbs. The vet said that we could do some very expensive tests to see if he had Kitty HIV, or Lewkimia, or something like that, or we could try to do out patient things too, but the vet said that no matter what we did he did not have a very good outlook for Murf, he did not even think that Murf would make it through testing or anything of that sort. He said that putting him down would probably be the best choice. John and I couldnt help but agree, with all of the circumstances. We did not want our lil baby to suffer. We were able to have our last time with him, and that was very important to us to be able to say goodbye. This is very hard time for us, since we loved and had bonded so close to our Kitten. He was defenitly part of our family, I know its hard for non pet owners to understand that, But we loved him like a child. We know that Murf is happy in Kitty heaven and hes running around playing with string and foam balls, and eating lots of clouds made our of kitty food. But we will always miss him and love him, and so will his big brother Blue!