She is backsliding rapidly. I had to leave for a few hours to run errands and when I got back, she had painted her rather large cage with bodily fluids. It was such a mess, coming out of every orifice poor girl. The stool was the most alarming. It was the color of seaweed and her diet has not changed. I can’t get her to the vet until Monday, but I called my feline specialist and we talked. Normally, when a cat vomits, you withhold food for 24 hours. But with her being so depleted, that isn’t going to work. So now, I will start feeding her 8 times a day, just teaspoons at a time. On Monday when I take her in, I will ask they do a complete panel and a fecal and we will see where we are at with her.

She is a lot more active than she ever has been before which Dr. Vicki says is a good thing. It may just be because she hasn’t had food in such a long time, her body has a hard time accepting it on a regular basis.  I just feel for her and I want to see what her levels are before deciding our next available option.

Please pray for her- she is feeling a bit puny at the moment

Her fever went up into the OMG range and I ran her and her kittens to the vet this afternoon. He thinks she has a bacterial infection so she is on amoxy. It is risky to put a nursing mom on antibiotics, but amoxy is pretty tame so she and the kittens should be alright. He checked to be sure she didn’t have mastitis or something wrong inside of her (like a re-absorbing kitten) and he didn’t feel anything alarming. You could tell she was feeling punky and I did get her tested. Thank the Lord she came out negative- I would have been so sad had she been positive. We didn’t vaccinate her – will wait until the kittens are older.  He said the kittens look good “very stout.”

Hopefully in a few days, Aurora will start feeling better. She threw up all over the place when we got home. She held it until she was away from the kittens. She rushed out of the carrier and went out into the small catio and left her sick there.  She is such a good mom-

Just received an email that an artist Bryan Carlson who makes exquisite lights for cat lovers will donate $50.00 to the rescue of the purchaser’s choice for every light he sells.

His website is here  Bryan Carlson   I love his style- he has great flair and a passion for animals-

Poor girl is so depleted. She is on a heating bed right now and doesn’t look like moving is in her future at the moment.

Unless it is to eat!

9/25/2014 her weight is 5 lbs 8.2 ounces

I was unable to give Hope fluids tonight, so I placed a call to my feline specialist who allowed me to bring this newest arrival up to her home. I am so glad I did, because Hope needed fluids so badly and she was not a happy camper when we started the process. We ended up having to put a muzzle (or as Dr. Vicki calls it) a “party hat,” on her. She got it off before we were done giving her fluids via IV and she tried to take both of  us on. There would have been no way I could have given her fluids by myself.

I am calling her Hope, because I hope she gets better. I hope she isn’t terminal and I hope she will like me in the morning. After what we just went through-she is hissing and slashing at me and I can’t blame her. No one likes getting IV’s-

She is hammered, she is exhausted and now, she is mad. I am going to leave her with food until the morning and we will take this new day on and see where it goes.

Just got a call from an elderly woman about an “emancipated” kitten that wandered into her yard. I smiled to myself thinking, I would take an emancipated kitten over an emaciated kitten any day of the week! I told her that I couldn’t help her, our sanctuary was full. Then she whispered: “My dear, you don’t understand, if you don’t come and get it than the dogs will have or we would shoot it in the head!”  Cripes sake! Who does this chit?

So off I went to get the kitten before it lost it’s life in a horrible fashion. She is not a kitten, she is an older girl. She is so bad off folks, needs prayer. I dropped her at the vet and they just called. She tested negative, she ate three cans of food (she was ravenous) She is full of fleas so they gave her a capstar. She is drinking but she is so dehydrated that they gave her fluids.

She is pure white with a black head. I am on my way to go and get her now. They don’t want to start the vaccinations on her right now as she is to weak. Poor girl- I will do all I can for her to get her back to health

Poor girl, she is pretty rough shape. I tried to put a flea comb through her and all I ran into were her bones. Even the Zoom Groom wasn’t kind enough for this cat. They think she is around 10 years old.

There is so much for her to get into at the gallery- and she was loving every minute of her exploration. Customers would walk in and she would prance over to them, rub their ankles and if they ignored her, they got an indignant MEOW! LOL  It was a long drive but worth every moment of her howling to get out of the carrier. I couldn’t get any volunteer to go with me, so she traveled in the large, padded soft-sided carrier with litter box food and water inside. She was not a happy girl during that 2 hour drive.

Here she is in her new shop- for some reason, she just loved the drums. She growled at the huge elephant God though- LOL  Her new mama is absolutely delightful. It was a great trip for me. She didn’t enjoy it until I let her out into her NEW home.

We will leave in the morning to investigate this potential home (which sounds like a wonderful place for this beautiful kitten to grow up in. An added plus is the woman is also considering at a future date, adopting Jordan! She has one old Siamese boy, 2 chow dogs and a home on the coast. Crossing my fingers that this all works out for both cats (eventually).

I have prayed and thought hard about the treatment the Himalayan received (or lack of I should say). I talked to my vet about it this afternoon and he was really upset about the “exit interview” and said that all vets are vaccinated against rabies and IF they do get bit (God forbid) they have a big enough window to be able to start the rabies protocol and he would have never given this cat such a lack of respect under any circumstances.

So I am going to report her to the licensing board and also write a letter to the editor of the local paper in the town she practices in and we will see how that all goes.

Update

The results just came in at 2:30 this afternoon he was negative for rabies. The tech said he was an old, old guy with a lot of lipofusion granulars in his brain. These are released, she said at the very end of the life of a cat. It is some sort of protein the brain needs in order to stay alive.

First off, I am just really angry right now. I took the cat to another clinic, not my regular one- because this new clinic, they open an hour earlier for emergencies. They wouldn’t even take him out of the carrier! They looked and saw he was blind, and when I told them about his jerky leg movements and snapping at the air, they said they were treating him as a rabid cat!  They called the Health Department and were advised that they needed to put him down and I was to take the body to OSU and pay $95.00 for the test for rabies. They said that the deputy should have followed this protocol and never got me involved with it.

When I questioned their opinion they said the only other option for this old guy was for me to quarantine him for 10 days to see if he presents for rabies. BUT they would not give me any pain medication, no antibiotics, steroids nothing! I was just supposed to stuff this cat into isolation and let him suffer for 10 days! That is not what we are about! I told them to euthanize him, I would pay the fee but I said that I wanted to look him over (with the vet’s help and heavy gloves) to see if he might have been hit by a car after he was gone- or what.

There was no evidence of a car hit- claws all intact, no compressions of the body cavity. He was so flea-ridden and emaciated, they couldn’t even find a vein to put the final solution in. They had to heart stick him!

He was old, he was emaciated, he was completely blind, full of mats, he was miserable and I’ll be damned if I was going to put him through 10 days of suffering to prove he didn’t have rabies. There’s something wrong with a vet who would just walk away like that and not even touch the cat to make him comfortable. If he had been younger, I might have fought for him to live- but he was just not there anymore and there was no point in asking him to continue.

I am waiting for them to call on the results of the rabies test. I suspect it will be negative. I think he is a bad survivor of distemper but I will let you all know what they find. Oh they did check for  a chip (AFTER he died) No chip. 🙁 What a lousy, lousy morning. Before he died, I whispered to him that I hoped sometime in his life, he had bright spots and memories of people loving him,

Thanks for letting me vent-

I have him- I suspect it is a male. He is in pretty bad shape and he looks like he may be blind in one eye. Not sure, my feline specialist is out of state so I will take him in tomorrow morning to my vet and hope they don’t throw a shoe at me or something. He is matted, incapable of swallowing, unable to walk and he tried to bite the syringe when I went to give him fluids- so I am going to just leave him alone and get him in first thing in the morning. (If you click on the photo it will enlarge)

here he is- poor guy