I am unsurprised at vet's recommendation :(. I suspected teh cancer when I met him on Sunday, cats heal too fast for scabs to stick around that long.

You gave him a proper home (brief though it was) and a good ending.

Just after we moved in here we adopted Goblin, a found cat via someone Vera knew. She turned out to be FeLV+. We tried keeping her separate from our other two (one of whom was FIV+) but she was desperately unhappy whenever we left the room and would yowl for hours (hence the name). We couldn't in good conscience try to rehome her so we had her euthanized even though she was healthy at the time. Pink blobs, hard decisions :(