Charlie has made remarkable progress. He is fully integrated in with the other kittens. They play together and sleep together. He is eating, drinking and still gurgling. Mike says he sounds like a washing machine! His belly is slowly shrinking, but his gurgling is getting louder. The vets tell me his lungs sound fine, […]
This morning as I was sweeping the cat room, Charlie started playing with the broom. I thought to myself “ok you, you want to play?” I took the ping pong ball out of the Drinkwell and tossed it on the floor and he scampered after it! He batted that ball from one corner of […]
Charlie was left alone for a few hours while we took Chandler up to her new home in Portland! I couldn’t be more pleased with the couple who adopted her. She has this huge house to roam around in, a seven year old boy to love her and two adults who understand cats quite well. […]
Passed an interesting night with Charlie. His respirations droppped about midnight and he was looking so tired, like he wanted to give up. We sat together in the silence. All I could hear was that gosh-darn gurgling noise he makes like a washing machine on the rinse cycle. I got to thinking about how […]
Hourly checks on the Charlie through the night until 3 a.m. when I fell asleep. Chappy woke me at 6:00 a.m. As a precaution, I am keeping my charlie clothes in a plastic bag at the foot of the stairs. Even though he is fully isolated from the rest of the group, if he […]
Meet Hard Luck Charlie- Charlie for short. Tonight as I was getting ready to just get into my grubbies and relax, there was a knock on the door. This man was standing on my front stoop with this kitten in his arms. He had found it on the highway on his way home. His passenger […]