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I got home from renting a movie yesterday and saw a pretty little tuxedo kitty sitting by the door of our building. I went over to say Hi thinking it was somebody's outside/inside kitty, and noticed that it was definitely a stray and definitely sick. His symptoms were: walking funny and lethargic, his tail doesn't move and has a big lump at the base of the tail like its broken, he is heavily wheezing, holds one foot up in the air and acts cold though its springy, has goopy-eye, and his third eyelid is closed. I fed him a can of wet food, which he ate whole almost the second I was far enough away.
I kept running down and checking on him and he kept coming closer and closer, and as it started raining he seemed to want to come in the hallway of the building but wouldn't because of course I was standing there! So he hid out in the bushes by the door.
I contacted Jen (you guys all know Jen of course!) and she drove over in the rainy dark with a live trap and helped me get it all set up with a towel and food under the bush the poor guy had been hanging out under. Thank you! Otherwise the poor guy would still be out in the come-and-go storms and so sick. I checked the trap a few times before bed and checked under all the cars and such.
And when I woke up this morning there he was! Yay!!!
So I brought him inside and he's sitting reluctantly in the cage on a bunch of paper toweling outside my front door.
Jen is figuring out how we'll get him to the (Is it the Humane Society or the APL?) since I don't have a car yet and nobody can let me borrow one today.
I am so happy that the poor guy won't be so miserable for much longer!
Oh and of course, here are some pictures!
I kept running down and checking on him and he kept coming closer and closer, and as it started raining he seemed to want to come in the hallway of the building but wouldn't because of course I was standing there! So he hid out in the bushes by the door.
I contacted Jen (you guys all know Jen of course!) and she drove over in the rainy dark with a live trap and helped me get it all set up with a towel and food under the bush the poor guy had been hanging out under. Thank you! Otherwise the poor guy would still be out in the come-and-go storms and so sick. I checked the trap a few times before bed and checked under all the cars and such.
And when I woke up this morning there he was! Yay!!!
Jen is figuring out how we'll get him to the (Is it the Humane Society or the APL?) since I don't have a car yet and nobody can let me borrow one today.
I am so happy that the poor guy won't be so miserable for much longer!
Oh and of course, here are some pictures!
