**I'm posting this to as many groups and forums as I've ever been a member of--please read and share Odin's story with as many as you possibly can!!**
Hi all--
Today on my way to work, I happened to glance down into a neighborhood flowerbed and saw what I was certain had to be a dying cat. He could barely lift his head to meow at me, one eye was goopy and sealed shut, and he was wheezing, drooling, and moaning. He let me pick him up and wrap him in a sheet. A passerby said, "Yes--that cat belongs to the people behind me. Another one of theirs died under my car last year. Would you please go have this one killed? It's sick and I'm afraid I'll catch something from it. It always wants me to pet it, but no one around here wants to touch it." Well. Guess what? I wasn't afraid to touch it, and I whisked it off to the low-cost clinic.
At the vet, I discovered that Odin didn't have an infected eye--he had an infected eye SOCKET. His eye was already gone. Furthermore, the drooling and awful smell was coming from poor Odin's mouth, which is loaded with abscessed teeth. To top it all off, he has a deep upper respiratory infection that makes him rattle and wheeze.
I can't imagine what life must have been like for Odin. He was obviously once a very BIG, very KINGLY boy--his paws and head are huge, yet his body is very emaciated, because the pain in his mouth has kept him from eating the kibble his "owners" throw on the ground. I heard further reports that when these people's cats start mating with each other, they run out and kick the cats in the ribs to stop them. Birth control???
I fully intend on sending an anonymous letter to Odin's former owners. Odin will never, ever go back there.
Right now, he is on antibiotics that will help calm the various infections raging in his body. I was afraid he would have no appetite, but it turns out he has an EXCELLENT appetite for canned food. He also has a serious appetite for affection.
Next Monday, Odin goes back to the vet to have his eye socket stitched shut and his teeth cleaned/pulled. He will also be neutered and vaccinated.
Odin will be unable to stay with me beyond next Wednesday. He needs a foster home, cat rescue, or, even better, a home of his own! He has been outcasted from society for far too long--first for simply existing, secondly for being so ill most people found him repulsive. Perhaps he has never known true human acceptance. He is approximately 4 years old. Better late than never!
Please--cross-post this information and photo anywhere you can think to cross-post it. I am more than willing to help arrange transport. I live in western Kentucky, and if a willing heart can be found, my willing hands will help Odin get there.
Everything will have been done for him health-wise--all you need to add is love! His photo is attached to this post.
Hi all--
Today on my way to work, I happened to glance down into a neighborhood flowerbed and saw what I was certain had to be a dying cat. He could barely lift his head to meow at me, one eye was goopy and sealed shut, and he was wheezing, drooling, and moaning. He let me pick him up and wrap him in a sheet. A passerby said, "Yes--that cat belongs to the people behind me. Another one of theirs died under my car last year. Would you please go have this one killed? It's sick and I'm afraid I'll catch something from it. It always wants me to pet it, but no one around here wants to touch it." Well. Guess what? I wasn't afraid to touch it, and I whisked it off to the low-cost clinic.
At the vet, I discovered that Odin didn't have an infected eye--he had an infected eye SOCKET. His eye was already gone. Furthermore, the drooling and awful smell was coming from poor Odin's mouth, which is loaded with abscessed teeth. To top it all off, he has a deep upper respiratory infection that makes him rattle and wheeze.
I can't imagine what life must have been like for Odin. He was obviously once a very BIG, very KINGLY boy--his paws and head are huge, yet his body is very emaciated, because the pain in his mouth has kept him from eating the kibble his "owners" throw on the ground. I heard further reports that when these people's cats start mating with each other, they run out and kick the cats in the ribs to stop them. Birth control???
I fully intend on sending an anonymous letter to Odin's former owners. Odin will never, ever go back there.
Right now, he is on antibiotics that will help calm the various infections raging in his body. I was afraid he would have no appetite, but it turns out he has an EXCELLENT appetite for canned food. He also has a serious appetite for affection.
Next Monday, Odin goes back to the vet to have his eye socket stitched shut and his teeth cleaned/pulled. He will also be neutered and vaccinated.
Odin will be unable to stay with me beyond next Wednesday. He needs a foster home, cat rescue, or, even better, a home of his own! He has been outcasted from society for far too long--first for simply existing, secondly for being so ill most people found him repulsive. Perhaps he has never known true human acceptance. He is approximately 4 years old. Better late than never!
Please--cross-post this information and photo anywhere you can think to cross-post it. I am more than willing to help arrange transport. I live in western Kentucky, and if a willing heart can be found, my willing hands will help Odin get there.
Everything will have been done for him health-wise--all you need to add is love! His photo is attached to this post.
