Guest guest Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 Sandy wrote: > I am so happy that you adopted a " senior " pet, they need love too! I also > adopted a 5 year old Yorkie from the Animal Shelter here in town three years > ago and she is so awesome!She is my best friend. It is amazing the things > that she does and she didn't have to be housebroken!! That was the awesome > part. If you have room at your house for an orphaned kitty cat, I could bring you one. She is a sweetheart. It took a month before she would let me near her. (I was feeding her outside). She showed up on our doorstop all flea bitten, so loaded with ear mites that they were obvious from a distance, all her ribs were showing and she had a serious respiratory infection. Yet she was still a fighter. I went to the vet and got liquid antibiotics and expectorant to mix in the food I was feeding her. I thought she wouldn't eat the food, but she was so starved she came back early every morning and after it got dark to be fed. My husband and/or I would sit on the back steps and watch her. Over a period of several days, we slowly moved her dishes a little closer to where we were sitting. After a month, her chest infection was cleared up and she trusted us enough to let us pet her for about 15 seconds before she would spook and run away. So I went back to the vet and got a tube of Revolution to squirt onto the skin at the back of her head. I had the tube all primed and ready to go, so that when she held still for her 15 second petting, I would have time to get the Revolution applied before she took off again. Revolution works for fleas, ticks, ear mites and intestinal parasites, so I new she desperately needed the treatment. I got it on her and she stood looking at me for a moment, then she realized I had done something to her and she took off running. She didn't come back for 24 hours -- hungry and thirsty. I had made the mistake once of picking her up to set on my lap. She had every claw in me within a second and was off and running before I could say owe! I treated all my wounds with lots of soap and water, followed by antiseptic and waited for my next chance. I dressed in a leather coat and leather gloves. When she wasn't looking I grabbed her from behind, hubby held the doors open and I got her in the house. She let out a huge wail and ran through the place looking for a place to hide. She chose under our bed, so we set up house for her in our master bathroom and the bedroom. Kitty litter in the bathroom, food, water, a kitty bed and toys in the bedroom. Also opened the bathroom window so she could look outside through the screen. For the first three days, all the kitty did was eat and sleep and then sleep some more. Once she had some strength back she started venturing around the house a bit. At first we thought she was about six months old, but have had to rapidly revise that estimate. Now that she is getting adequate rest and very good food, she has refilled her skin. I can only guess now at how old she is. It's almost a month since she came to stay with us. She has had her second treatment with Revolution, so she is healthy, still skittish, but loves to be petted. She is still pretty touchy about being held though, but even that doesn't involve scratching me anymore. She'll tolerate it, but she doesn't like it. I can only guess at what horrors this poor little stray faced out on the street. It is obvious that some human(s) has physically hurt her very badly. I think she has been dropped kicked more than once. She also had to do battle when she spent all her formative time outside alone. How she survived long enough to find us is beyond me. This kitty definitely has spunk. She has shown no interest whatsoever, in going back outdoors. The problem is we cannot keep her much longer. We have two other cats in our home and they have been with us for quite some time. One of them was half starved as a kitten and tends to be a bit on the neurotic side. She and our visitor kitty cannot seem to come to any kind of amicable behaviour. Consequently our own kitty has taken to hiding, hissing, has developed a nervous habit and is literally licking all the fur off of her stomach. So, the stray kitty has to go. She is shiny and healthy and relatively calm. She's smart too. She's been through so much hell in her short life that I don't want to take her to the pound, because the odds of her making it through adoption are slim to none. If they don't find homes for the cats within a couple of weeks, they have to kill them. I know they are gentle and kind when they kill the kitties, so that they aren't unnecessarily traumatized. But this little kitty has had such a hard life already, it would seem a shame to have her young life get stopped by a needle -- all for want of a home where she can keep to herself when she wants to and get some petting when she needs some. She's fully house trained, uses her littler box properly, isn't mangling the furniture etc. (she is currently curled up in bed next to my husband, purring away. ) Our own cats aren't thrilled with that, because of course, we had to banish them from the bedroom when the kitty came to visit. This little one needs a nice home. Not a short, sad life, ending with a needle stuck into her by a stranger. So if any of you know someone who would provide a home for this kitty, that would be wonderful. (within a reasonable driving or shipping distance of Bloomington, IN) please let me know. -- Lyndi Lover Cats, Dogs and other little creatures. lyndi @ insightbb.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 j l wrote: > Lyndi, > > Where do you live? I might be able to take her.... > > Also, if you do decide to turn her over to a shelter. > look for the " no kill " ones. They guarentee they will > never put down an animal. They will feed it and take > care of it as long as it lives. I'm in Bloomington, Indiana. Where are you? I've been dealing with Pets Alive, but so far they have bombed completely at finding a foster home for her. -- Lyndi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Who the heck in this group beside myself doesn't live in Indiana? :-) (Ha, Ha) I live in MA so I guess that won't work..... Let me try to see if I can find some no kill shelters in that area.... Jan :-) Lyndi wrote: I'm in Bloomington, Indiana. Where are you? I've been dealing with Pets Alive, but so far they have bombed completely at finding a foster home for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 I don't live in Indiana. I live in Montana but I have a few relatives in Indiana.(smile) Kaylene >Who the heck in this group beside myself doesn't live in Indiana? :-) > >(Ha, Ha) > >I live in MA so I guess that won't work..... Let me try to see if I can >find some no kill shelters in that area.... > >Jan :-) _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 I am not in Indiana either...I am with Kaylene in Big Sky Country... Lee > I don't live in Indiana. I live in Montana but I have a few relatives in > Indiana.(smile) > Kaylene > >Who the heck in this group beside myself doesn't live in Indiana? :-) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 j l wrote: > Who the heck in this group beside myself doesn't live in Indiana? :-) I'm a " temporary resident " in Indiana. I need to go home soon -- before I start developing a weird accent. <grin> -- Western Canadian Lyndi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 Lee wrote: > I am not in Indiana either...I am with Kaylene in Big Sky Country... One of the nice things about people from Montana is that they sound just like people from Saskatchewan and Alberta :-) -- Homesick Lyndi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 Awww shucks Lyndi thanks...lol....actually I probably don't sound Montana enough for you...I still have some New England in some of my words, even though I have been here 11 years...I am sorry you are homesick Lyndi...do you get to go home soon? (you have probably told the story before...but I can't remember) Lee Lyndi wrote: > One of the nice things about people from Montana is that they sound > just like people from Saskatchewan and Alberta :-) > -- > Homesick Lyndi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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