It had been over two years since I took in a bunch of cats from the local kill pound and I VOWED no more! My boyfriend made me PROMISE. Well....... I couldn't let this little girl stay in her cage at Animal Control. A lot of positive things have happened at this facility, but this little one needed some extra TLC.
I was there on a Saturday cleaning - she was fur and bones, dry fur and she seemed to ...well.. have given up. Lots of URI going on there at the time. Then she presented with diarrhea. Poor baby. I asked the shelter worker if I could take the kitty on a cage respite and she said, sure.
And she told me Mari's back story - that she had come in mauled by a dog. Based on the bite wounds, it looked as tho' the dog had Mari by the head!
How she escaped IDK .... but I am sure she burned off a couple of her lives. And here is where she got lucky again. With a new director - she was cleaned up and treated instead of being put down. But she was languishing in her cage. Quiet and a little shy, no one was paying her no never mind.
She had been there for four months, including the treatment time for her wounds.
Well... within 24 hrs of taking her it became obvious that I just could NOT take her back there and put her in a cage. She needed HELP! So I turned to a local rescue.
Got her to a vet and determined she was older than the 5/6 on her records (more like 8-10) and she had a raging clostridium (GI) infection which was causing the diarrhea.
Fast forward 5 weeks later - and she is cleared up (on yogurt and FortiFlora for a few days to repopulate her gut) and doing much better. She needs her gut to be ok and she needs a dental... and then I will work to find her a home.
Mari when I first brought her home:
And a few I took a couple of days ago ( lousy lighting - sorry!
) Her fur is better, she has filled in a little bit and there is more light in her eyes.
I was there on a Saturday cleaning - she was fur and bones, dry fur and she seemed to ...well.. have given up. Lots of URI going on there at the time. Then she presented with diarrhea. Poor baby. I asked the shelter worker if I could take the kitty on a cage respite and she said, sure.
And she told me Mari's back story - that she had come in mauled by a dog. Based on the bite wounds, it looked as tho' the dog had Mari by the head!
How she escaped IDK .... but I am sure she burned off a couple of her lives. And here is where she got lucky again. With a new director - she was cleaned up and treated instead of being put down. But she was languishing in her cage. Quiet and a little shy, no one was paying her no never mind.
She had been there for four months, including the treatment time for her wounds.
Well... within 24 hrs of taking her it became obvious that I just could NOT take her back there and put her in a cage. She needed HELP! So I turned to a local rescue.
Got her to a vet and determined she was older than the 5/6 on her records (more like 8-10) and she had a raging clostridium (GI) infection which was causing the diarrhea.
Fast forward 5 weeks later - and she is cleared up (on yogurt and FortiFlora for a few days to repopulate her gut) and doing much better. She needs her gut to be ok and she needs a dental... and then I will work to find her a home.
Mari when I first brought her home:
And a few I took a couple of days ago ( lousy lighting - sorry!
