Willie Seems Much Better

I took Willie to the vet last week because she was not eating. The vet said that she had lost a little weight but was 'ok'. It was not as bad of an outcome as what I thought it would be; he gave her an apatite stimulant and anti-nausea medicine and if she said had that she should eat.

It was much better than what I thought the outcome would be.

She has been on her medication for a few days now and I am very happy to say that she has been eating (she especially likes Jimbos - gross).

I will keep you updated.

Splotches Not Out of the Woods Yet!

Splotches (or Willie as we now call her) came home over the long weekend and was doing well after having spent the week at the vet being hydrated and having the toxins flushed from her body. Below are pictures from when I went to visit her in the hospital.

Over the weekend she was not eating a great deal and when we took her to the vet on Tuesday she had lost 150 grams and now only weighs 2.15 kgs. When she came home from the vet she ate quite a bit but yesterday and today she has not really eaten anything and I am really quite concerned about her.

Last night I had to give Willie subcut fluids for the first time to keep her hydrated. These fluids are administered under the skin by a needle. It was not actually too hard giving them to her by myself.

To read more about subcut fluids click here.

She is going back to the vet tonight to see if there is any reason why she is not eating and if there is anything we can do. I suspect that the toxins may be building up again. I really really hope not cos I do not know if there would be anything further we could do to help her.

Fingers crossed!

Vet and Rehoming Update

Hi All,

Last night Mr Monochrome went to his new home. It was strange because he is usually really out going and bouncy but when I dropped him off at his new home he was really shy and did not really do anything. The young boy who he is now living with, Cruze, loves him and was very good with him. I have a very cute picture of them together which I will post soon.

Now for the vet updates; and this time it is all good news (expect for for our bank balance but who cares about that).

Moose successfully had all her teeth out yesterday :) and we are collecting her today. I can't wiat to see what she is like.

And little Splotches too is doing well. The vet said that the toxins in her body have come down significantly and she is eating on her own now. She will stay at the vets until Saturday when she can come home. The vet said that she will need to be administered fuilds every few days under the skin so that will be a learning curve for us but if will help her it will be find.

I will see Splotches today when I collect Moose so I will update you on how she is going tonight.

Love Jasmine

Wonderful Splotches

Things are sadly not looking good for Splotches. Three weeks ago Splotch went to the vet and was diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure. This basically means that her kidneys are not functioning very well at all and this will eventually lead to her body becoming toxic at which point she will become very unwell. She was given two types of medicine and a special diet to manage this problem. We decided that we would keep her rather than rehoming her as our girl Misty (below) is 14 years old and she also has Renal Failure so we know how to manage it. Though Misty’s is not yet as bad as we got on to it much earlier.

Over the last two days Splotches has not really been eating or doing anything other than sleeping. We took her to the vet last night and he said that things were not looking very well. She stayed at the vet hospital over night and was given fluids today to de-toxify her body. The vet also carried out blood test which confirmed that the toxins in her body have been building up. This has been making her feel sick and made her not want to eat. As a result she has lost nearly 600grams since her vet visit just three weeks ago.

She will stay in the vet hospital for a few days on fluids to see if that can de-toxify her body and stabilize her. If this does not work she will not have long with us.

Cats To Be Put To Sleep - Not If We Can Help It

Last week we were contacted by a man who had been left three older cats when his father died. These cats did not get on with his cat and so were forced to live outside. Furthermore he was moving and could not take the cats with him. He took the three cats into Animal Welfare in the hope that they could rehome them. However given the cats age he was advised that they would likely be put to sleep if left with Animal Welfare. Many thousands of adult cats was killed every year because most people only want kittens.

The man did not want to see this happen to his fathers cats and he and Animal Welfare contacted us to help; which of course we were happy to do. When it came time to collect the cats we got some good news that one of the cats, a large ginger male, had caught the eye of the person buying the mans house and he was going to stay with him. This meant we only got two cats, which is good given that we are busy with the Backyard Catz.

We were not told what the cats names were or anything about them really; only that they are about five years old. One smaller girl is tortoiseshell and we call her Splotches. She is timid but this could be because she is underweight and has an infected eye that will probably have to be removed. Splotches will go to the vet soon to have this looked at.

The other one is a very large chocolate coloured female we call Moose. She is very vocal and not too shy. She is also overweight and will have to go on a special diet.