The winner for January is Random Felines. She will receive Darlene Arden’s excellent book The Complete Cat’s Meow-
For this month’s contest the winner will receive Nekoflies-
the very best in cat and kitten entertainment and a toy I have not seen one cat turn up his head and ignore-
Again, the rules are simple, leave a comment on the blog sometime this month and you are eligible for the drawing. There will be one winner drawn at the end of the month-
I heard the noise over the rain early this morning. A kind of thunk then a slide and a thump. I got off the couch and opened up the door peering up I saw nothing on the roof, only black clouds overhead. As I went to shut the door, that’s when I noticed the box on the porch. It had been shoved into the bushes and I almost missed it due to such a grey day.
With a sinking feeling, I bent down and lifted the lid. Instantly the kittens inside began mewing and scrabbling up the box trying to get out! I quickly closed the lid and shuttled the box quickly upstairs to the kitten room.
As I opened up the box, 6 black kittens tumbled out- FREEDOM!
They are thin and flea ridden, they just went to the vet and were dewormed and deflead…sigh Why can’t people just spay and neuter? Saves a lot of heartache all the way around!
Thankfully, I am still getting hits on my ads and people are contacting me about my kittens. I wonder if one of those contacts “blessed” me with these black beauties? The woman last night on the phone sounded quite strange and said she wasn’t looking to adopt a kitten but to get rid of several- and now, here we go- six more babies. They are about 12 weeks old- and of course pitch black which means adoptability in this neck of the woods is going to be difficult. Looks like they will join the black plague here at home!
At least they aren’t feral!
Her head popped out of her hiding place in response to the sound of the cat food can being popped open. I looked over at Gretyl and smiled. This is the first time since she arrived here that she has ventured out of her man-made cave.
She looked around, perhaps wondering if there were threats of predators in the room, but all she could see- her feline friends and myself reassured her and she came out from behind the blankets and walked over to me.
I rubbed her chocolate head and belly and dished out her portion of food. She bent down and started to eat. Even when I stood up to leave the room she was still eating. A small baby step, but one I will definitely take!
Here are the girls after their vet visit.
Even my vet was amazed how difficult the visit was in terms of handling these beauties. They were terrified! He said he could tell they haven’t been handled much and he seemed to be struggling for words to express it. I told him, their trust meter is on low- and he said that’s it exactly. It was hard he said to look at these cats and not be able to touch them without scaring them. It didn’t make sense in his brain. Doesn’t make sense in mine either!
I have named the chocolate point Gretyl, The almost all white one is Blossom and the last is Bailey. I hadn’t named them yet and when the clerk asked me their names- I sort of got stuck.
They all had identical fevers of 104 but the vet felt most of that was stress-induced as he could find nothing shooting off alarm bells for him. They all have yeast infections in their ears. They tested negative for the bad stuff (thank God) and they are about 3-4 years old-
So there you go, three more join the fray! LOL
It’s 5:21 a.m. and sometime in the night Baker stroked out and went to the Bridge. I don’t know if it was from the pain, a possible overlooked injury or the stress of the vet visits, tests and prodding but he is gone.
As I sat in the living room trying not to cry and getting ready for the day, I noticed Quincy was unable to sit down. She was in the middle of the floor with her butt high in the air?
When she continued to stay in this position, I went over to check on her. I touched her tail, she has a big lump in the middle and touching it makes her come unglued. Her third eyelid is folded over and she wants to be held, but I cannot hold her without her screaming- sigh…….I merge from one cat crisis to another. I am taking Scotty in for a neuter today so I will add one more kitten to the travel plans and do a drop-off of Quincy. I pray it is just a cat bite (though I can’t find one) and not something else that is worse than an upcoming abscess.
Sometimes, life just doesn’t make sense.
I have no clue what is going on with Quincy who is only 7 months old. I have the three Siamese girls who were so beaten upstairs and they are going into the vet on Monday. I guess if I didn’t want the heartache and the stress of handling so many abused kitties, I should have just bought some goldfish!
At any rate, I have a grave to dig if I can find a place on the grounds that isn’t flooded at the moment. We have fish in our pasture right now as the creek has grown into a river and flooded the land.
Please pray for Quince that this is an easy fix and not something dreadful. I grow weary of crisis modes and just wish God would send me some healthy kittens for a change-what a concept!
Please light a candle for Baker- for he’s Jeremy and Don’s kitty now.
Tomorrow afternoon another one of my rescues will be in her new forever home. Gal is interested in an older long-hair cat so Sierra and Fiona are going on a road trip tomorrow. If the home checks out, only one will be returning home with me-
Update: She wanted all three- I took ShyAnne with me as well, but she settled for Sierra! It is a lovely home and she is a very focused and determined young lady. Sierra when she adjusts is going to have a wonderful life with this gal!
McGee just got dropped off at the vet’s office. He has been pulling his hair out on the back of his legs. He’s done this since the neuter. This is either due to pain or stress. I am hoping the vet can help me figure it out but he is getting bloody now and nothing I was putting on it seemed to help.
They were so kind to my kitty. There are back issues but not a protruding disk. There are several options open for treatment:
hydrotherapy
accupuncture
accupressure
massage and heat
conventional meds- steriods, anti-inflammatories and pain meds.
physical therapy
They can’t exactly tell what is wrong without running more expensive tests, but they can tell something is wrong because of how Baker moves and doesn’t move.
If he had a protruding disk, they would treat it first with alternative measures. Surgery is a last resort for cats, dogs are a different story, they perform these on dogs all the time. So basically the options remain the same for the protruding disk which he doesn’t have to the back injury he does have.
The treatment program however it is decided is long and involved and will require several visits every month until it gets started. I did ask since we have an outdoor jacuzzi if I could use that for hydrotherapy, but the vet just smiled and said only if you have steel gloves and kitty has a good life jacket!
In a few hours I leave with Baker and go to the specialist. I am told they are very kind and very thorough so will update when I can. We are having a helluva storm right now and cable is in and out.
The three new cats I was able to spend some time with them early this morning and they break my heart. When you go toward them they flinch, when you reach to pet them, they draw away. This is not a feral tendency this is an indication that have been beaten (and often). I spent a lot of time lying on the floor and rubbing chins and ears to just reassure them that no one will ever hurt them again. I haven’t been able to get near the long-hair and suspect she is a girl because of how she acts. She has scars on her face and I am not sure what they are from. She is very shy and the touchiest of the group. Someone cried all night upstairs but when I am in the room they are strangely quiet. I can’t let them out into the whole upstairs area until after Friday when Scotty gets neutered. Then I can let Scotty, Reese and Promise into general population and let the new group roam the upstairs. It’s just so sad- who would beat on a cat?
and I was born twice! I have three more kitties upstairs right now. Older girls- drop dead gorgeous Siamese mixes left behind by someone and abandoned for over a month! WHO does that? These girls are social, loving but in such bad shape BUT thank God they are eating! I will take them to the vet later on this week, I want to get Baker’s visit out of the way first before I tackle anything else. I had to clip the long-hair’s belly as she was so matted and dirty.
So much for getting my numbers down- eh Kim? LOL
