Hello there fellow cat lovers.
I recently lost my baby girl, and I felt the need to do whatever it takes to get her story out there. Her name was Trinity, and I recieved her as a foster kitten from the SPCA on mother's day of 2004. She was orphaned - her mother died saving her and her two sisters from a fire in downtown Buffalo. We nursed the three of them back to health, and about two months later I officially adopted her.
During the foster care of Trinity we took in another orphaned kitten. He had no one, and he was so scared he just need to be loved and socialized. For some reason Trinity and Odin relied on each other (even though there were two other kittens). The two of them quickly became our little babies.
My boyfriend, Matt, and I moved from NY to NC last August, and brought our little guys with us. They had a relationship like I have never seen between two cats. Their personalities were incredible, and they had so much love to give...not only to each other, but to Matt and I...and pretty much anyone they came in contact with.
This past Tuesday Trinity was gagging and later started throwing up....probably about 15 times or so. Natrually, we took her to the vet. She had a lot of pain in her belly, and after many x-rays and tests, they decided that she had a blockage somewhere in her digestive system. At 6pm on July 27th, Triny went into surgery.
Later that night the vet called and told us that although the blockage was in almost every area of her digestive system (stomach, intestines, and colon), the surgery was a success regardless of it's intensity. We were told we would have her back in our arms Friday or Saturday morning. It's now Saturday afternoon....and our baby is never coming home.
The morning after her surgery they found damage to her esophagus. She leaked fluid into her lungs, and after trying multiple times to empty them and keep them that way, she stopped breathing. We lost our little girl around 9:30am on July 28th.
She was the most special little girl I have ever known. I will write much more about her as the days go on and I have the strength to remember her without so many tears. But I want to warn you all of this.
The blockage Trinity had was String. Yes, String took her life. She ate it from the time she was real little...it was like she needed it. She'd pull it out of my sweaters, out of blankets, out of my sewing materials....she'd even eat the hair out of my brush, and sometimes out of my head while i was sleeping! She had too much of it apparently, and she clogged everything up. It's such a horrible thing because she had no idea what she was doing was harmful, and although we tried our hardest to stop her...we also had no idea it could take her life.
So please....do whatever you can to keep strings (in any form) away from your babies.
I will post more later. I miss my baby girl.
RIP Trinity Marie 4/15/04 - 7/28/05
(she's the grey one, Odin is white)
I recently lost my baby girl, and I felt the need to do whatever it takes to get her story out there. Her name was Trinity, and I recieved her as a foster kitten from the SPCA on mother's day of 2004. She was orphaned - her mother died saving her and her two sisters from a fire in downtown Buffalo. We nursed the three of them back to health, and about two months later I officially adopted her.
During the foster care of Trinity we took in another orphaned kitten. He had no one, and he was so scared he just need to be loved and socialized. For some reason Trinity and Odin relied on each other (even though there were two other kittens). The two of them quickly became our little babies.
My boyfriend, Matt, and I moved from NY to NC last August, and brought our little guys with us. They had a relationship like I have never seen between two cats. Their personalities were incredible, and they had so much love to give...not only to each other, but to Matt and I...and pretty much anyone they came in contact with.
This past Tuesday Trinity was gagging and later started throwing up....probably about 15 times or so. Natrually, we took her to the vet. She had a lot of pain in her belly, and after many x-rays and tests, they decided that she had a blockage somewhere in her digestive system. At 6pm on July 27th, Triny went into surgery.
Later that night the vet called and told us that although the blockage was in almost every area of her digestive system (stomach, intestines, and colon), the surgery was a success regardless of it's intensity. We were told we would have her back in our arms Friday or Saturday morning. It's now Saturday afternoon....and our baby is never coming home.
The morning after her surgery they found damage to her esophagus. She leaked fluid into her lungs, and after trying multiple times to empty them and keep them that way, she stopped breathing. We lost our little girl around 9:30am on July 28th.
She was the most special little girl I have ever known. I will write much more about her as the days go on and I have the strength to remember her without so many tears. But I want to warn you all of this.
The blockage Trinity had was String. Yes, String took her life. She ate it from the time she was real little...it was like she needed it. She'd pull it out of my sweaters, out of blankets, out of my sewing materials....she'd even eat the hair out of my brush, and sometimes out of my head while i was sleeping! She had too much of it apparently, and she clogged everything up. It's such a horrible thing because she had no idea what she was doing was harmful, and although we tried our hardest to stop her...we also had no idea it could take her life.
So please....do whatever you can to keep strings (in any form) away from your babies.
I will post more later. I miss my baby girl.
RIP Trinity Marie 4/15/04 - 7/28/05
(she's the grey one, Odin is white)
