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Me and my sappy self may have gotten in over my head this time. Yesterday Mike (hubby) and I had lunch in town and we were driving home on a major highway out here and I saw this tiny thing in the median strip, it was a kitten I thought. So I made him pull over and I was planning on putting it back in its yard or something.
Then I got close to it and OMG. I thought it had been hit at first because it looked like it had no eyes just puss, its noise was also completely covered up, and it had sometype of substance all over it and it was meowing wildly. Well everyone knows me and there is no way under heaven I could have left it so I put it in Mike's ball cap (yes it fit) and carried it home with us.
We soaped it up with baby shampoo about 5 times and after all the briars and gunk was off I saw its eyes worked fine and the nose was pink (who knew?). The main concern then was the water. OMG the bathtub was red with the water and puss was still coming out of its eyes and nose. I rushed it to my vet thinking it had some type of car fluid on it. Wrong according to the vet the blood was from fleas and it was its own blood It was everything I could do not to bawl right there so sad to me. He has distemper, he is anemic due to the fleas, and a severe cold which accounts for the puss. Basically he wormed him, gave me ear mite meds, gave him a dose of flea meds between his shoulders, an antibiotic and wished me luck.
Said IF I could get him to eat and drink he would live but it was a BIG IF. So far I took some cat food and put in in the blender so I could get it into the eyedropper. I have been getting 2 eyedroppers full down him along with 3 of water every 2 hours since I brought him home. He is fighting me more lol so I think he is a tad better but he is still not interested in eating, drinking, moving all he wants to do is lay on me
. Whenever Mike takes him for a second for me to go potty myself he cries till I come back. I decided to name him Hobo lol my wittle bum.
I do have 2 other cats and 2 small dogs already. They are all vaccinated and in good health, I do have Hobo in a separate area just to keep his stress down and to protect the babies I already have until he is better.
If you have advice please share it, and pray to the Goddess or whomever you choose for this little soul. He didn't deserve this and it breaks my heart.
Then I got close to it and OMG. I thought it had been hit at first because it looked like it had no eyes just puss, its noise was also completely covered up, and it had sometype of substance all over it and it was meowing wildly. Well everyone knows me and there is no way under heaven I could have left it so I put it in Mike's ball cap (yes it fit) and carried it home with us.
We soaped it up with baby shampoo about 5 times and after all the briars and gunk was off I saw its eyes worked fine and the nose was pink (who knew?). The main concern then was the water. OMG the bathtub was red with the water and puss was still coming out of its eyes and nose. I rushed it to my vet thinking it had some type of car fluid on it. Wrong according to the vet the blood was from fleas and it was its own blood It was everything I could do not to bawl right there so sad to me. He has distemper, he is anemic due to the fleas, and a severe cold which accounts for the puss. Basically he wormed him, gave me ear mite meds, gave him a dose of flea meds between his shoulders, an antibiotic and wished me luck.
Said IF I could get him to eat and drink he would live but it was a BIG IF. So far I took some cat food and put in in the blender so I could get it into the eyedropper. I have been getting 2 eyedroppers full down him along with 3 of water every 2 hours since I brought him home. He is fighting me more lol so I think he is a tad better but he is still not interested in eating, drinking, moving all he wants to do is lay on me
I do have 2 other cats and 2 small dogs already. They are all vaccinated and in good health, I do have Hobo in a separate area just to keep his stress down and to protect the babies I already have until he is better.
If you have advice please share it, and pray to the Goddess or whomever you choose for this little soul. He didn't deserve this and it breaks my heart.