Inge is a 10 year old bi-color and white pedigreed Oriental Shorthair. She is the most loving, friendly cat I have known in quite a while. Here is her story ...
She came to be with her Meowmmy Ann 10 years ago and the bonding process took place instantly. She never looked back at her breeder when they dropped her off with Ann and Inge was well-loved, if not horribly well taken care of.
I came to have Inge (as well as her companion cats, Floppy Toe, Dell and Alanna) right before Thanksgiving when Ann was evicted from her home and had no way to care for her cats.
When they first came here, I was mostly worried about Floppy Toe and Alanna, who spent several days in the vet with a horrible URI, but both are doing well and holding their own now. Dell is fine, eats like a horse and is very playful.
Inge, however, has been steadily going downhill since she came here. She's lost a lot of weight in the nearly two months she's been here, she is hovering over the water dish and the litter box is constantly saturated. She barely eats, her eyes are both crusted over and you can just tell by looking at her that it is "time". She is in the end-stage of renal failure.
Please keep her in your thoughts and close to your hearts tomorrow afternoon when she will be euthanized at my vet's office.
I haven't heard a peep from Ann since she dumped her cats here in November and since her phones have been shut off, I have no way of being able to tell her what is going to happen to Inge. I do have an email address for her at her school, but I am not certain she is even still attending school or even if she is alive or dead at this point. After everything horrible she has done to me, I am a cold and heartless person for saying this, but honestly, I don't care. No one should treat their "precious babies" this way. There have been signs that Inge was ill long before I ever got her in my home. And she could have been treated before it reached this point. Now, it is too late to do anything but put her out of her suffering and misery.
Again, these are cats that were used to living in an absolute dump of a home with a person who couldn't be bothered to even feed them, give them fresh water daily or clean their litter box for weeks at a time much less take them to a vet for regular care.
It is just very, very sad and my heart hurts today because I know there is nothing left to be done for her.
She came to be with her Meowmmy Ann 10 years ago and the bonding process took place instantly. She never looked back at her breeder when they dropped her off with Ann and Inge was well-loved, if not horribly well taken care of.
I came to have Inge (as well as her companion cats, Floppy Toe, Dell and Alanna) right before Thanksgiving when Ann was evicted from her home and had no way to care for her cats.
When they first came here, I was mostly worried about Floppy Toe and Alanna, who spent several days in the vet with a horrible URI, but both are doing well and holding their own now. Dell is fine, eats like a horse and is very playful.
Inge, however, has been steadily going downhill since she came here. She's lost a lot of weight in the nearly two months she's been here, she is hovering over the water dish and the litter box is constantly saturated. She barely eats, her eyes are both crusted over and you can just tell by looking at her that it is "time". She is in the end-stage of renal failure.
Please keep her in your thoughts and close to your hearts tomorrow afternoon when she will be euthanized at my vet's office.
I haven't heard a peep from Ann since she dumped her cats here in November and since her phones have been shut off, I have no way of being able to tell her what is going to happen to Inge. I do have an email address for her at her school, but I am not certain she is even still attending school or even if she is alive or dead at this point. After everything horrible she has done to me, I am a cold and heartless person for saying this, but honestly, I don't care. No one should treat their "precious babies" this way. There have been signs that Inge was ill long before I ever got her in my home. And she could have been treated before it reached this point. Now, it is too late to do anything but put her out of her suffering and misery.
Again, these are cats that were used to living in an absolute dump of a home with a person who couldn't be bothered to even feed them, give them fresh water daily or clean their litter box for weeks at a time much less take them to a vet for regular care.
It is just very, very sad and my heart hurts today because I know there is nothing left to be done for her.