I've written that post on another forum. I'm sorry I don't have the strenght to write a new one and go through all this pain again.
My Sweet Maya
Maya was my foster pregnant cat for only 10 days. When she arrived at my home, I immediatly realised she was a special cat. She never showed any sign of aggressivity (even when my other cats were hissing her), she was beautiful, gentle and had amazing eyes. I took care of her more than anything else I've ever cared about in my life. I spent hours on the net, on the phone, on forums and at the vet during these 10 days to try to save her.
At first, it was just to get information to make sure her pregnancy and the moment of giving birth would go fine. But then, she started being sick. A few days later, she just stopped eating. I was more and more worried. We don't have much money (actually, we have practically none), but we knew we couldn't wait until monday to get her to a vet yesterday night. So we drove to the emergency vet. She hadn't eaten in two days and wasn't practically moving. By the time we got there, her temperature was 6 degrees to low (32 instead of 38). They told us they didn't know what was wrong and that they would need to keep her for a day to find out, but it was too expansive (800$+ the 250$ that we had already paid). So they gave her fluids under her skins and took some tests (I saw her 5 babies in her tummy) and they told us we had to feed her, make her drink and keep her warm.
I spent to whole day warming up towels and rice bags, feeding her and giving her water with a syringe. Giving her 10ml of water could take half an hour because she had a lot of trouble swallowing adn she cough a lot. At five this afternoon, I thought we would be able to go through it. Her temp was a little higher (but still low) and I had been able to make her drink the quantity that the vet had told me too (20ml/hour). But then something went wrong. She started having contractions, but I think it was too much for her and she was in so much pain. Then it went away. Soon after, it came back. And it went away again. The third time seemed to hurt her so bad. One minute later she was dead in my hands and there's nothing I could do.
If only I had had the money to save her and her babies. I would have borrowed it, but we already owe so much (credit cards are maxed and we already owe a few thousands). I feel so ashamed I wasn't able to save her and she was such a sweet cat. She had a rough life and I wanted to make it better when I took her away from the shelter, but it would have been just less painful for her to be put to sleep there than having to die slowly at my home.
Please Maya, forgive me. I love you and I already miss you. I hope you're in a better world with your babies, where you are not sick and feel no pain.
My Sweet Maya
Maya was my foster pregnant cat for only 10 days. When she arrived at my home, I immediatly realised she was a special cat. She never showed any sign of aggressivity (even when my other cats were hissing her), she was beautiful, gentle and had amazing eyes. I took care of her more than anything else I've ever cared about in my life. I spent hours on the net, on the phone, on forums and at the vet during these 10 days to try to save her.
At first, it was just to get information to make sure her pregnancy and the moment of giving birth would go fine. But then, she started being sick. A few days later, she just stopped eating. I was more and more worried. We don't have much money (actually, we have practically none), but we knew we couldn't wait until monday to get her to a vet yesterday night. So we drove to the emergency vet. She hadn't eaten in two days and wasn't practically moving. By the time we got there, her temperature was 6 degrees to low (32 instead of 38). They told us they didn't know what was wrong and that they would need to keep her for a day to find out, but it was too expansive (800$+ the 250$ that we had already paid). So they gave her fluids under her skins and took some tests (I saw her 5 babies in her tummy) and they told us we had to feed her, make her drink and keep her warm.
I spent to whole day warming up towels and rice bags, feeding her and giving her water with a syringe. Giving her 10ml of water could take half an hour because she had a lot of trouble swallowing adn she cough a lot. At five this afternoon, I thought we would be able to go through it. Her temp was a little higher (but still low) and I had been able to make her drink the quantity that the vet had told me too (20ml/hour). But then something went wrong. She started having contractions, but I think it was too much for her and she was in so much pain. Then it went away. Soon after, it came back. And it went away again. The third time seemed to hurt her so bad. One minute later she was dead in my hands and there's nothing I could do.
If only I had had the money to save her and her babies. I would have borrowed it, but we already owe so much (credit cards are maxed and we already owe a few thousands). I feel so ashamed I wasn't able to save her and she was such a sweet cat. She had a rough life and I wanted to make it better when I took her away from the shelter, but it would have been just less painful for her to be put to sleep there than having to die slowly at my home.
Please Maya, forgive me. I love you and I already miss you. I hope you're in a better world with your babies, where you are not sick and feel no pain.
