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Hope arrived Sunday 10/30/05 from an animal control facility in Baton Rouge, LA. This animal control group is run by a wonderful group of people who do NOT want to kill the animals and do every thing possible to find homes for the animals, but they knew they were running out of time for her, she had been there for 5 months and there was little hope being adopted. One of the volunteers contacted us and ask if we could help and we of course said yes. Hope was transferred to us with a group of animals being moved from facilities in Baton Rouge and Mississippi to a local no kill shelter by a wonderful group of rescuers down there still rescuing the hurricane animals.
10/31/05 She is horrifying thin, and right now is not eating. We are giving her lots of meds and IV fluids 4 times a day to try to get her in decent health.
11/01/05 Hope is still not eating, back to the vets to get her a shot that should stimulate her appetite and poor kid, we also gave her an enema...the x-rays also showed that she is severely constipated.
11/4/05 Hope is still not eating. We are giving her antibiotics, predasone which also is an appetite stimulator, force feeding her a high calorie supplement that has an appetite stimulant in it too.
Took her back to the vet to talk about inserting a feeding tube. Thank goodness our shelter vet was there working as the relief vet.... I just love her and am so much more comfortable with her than with the other vet. Dr. Erin ran all kinds of tests on her, she felt she was in renal failure, she also has severe ulcers in her mouth (that explains her not wanting to eat), we also did a combo test. Dr Erin did a good full check up on her, on her reactions, etc etc etc....and the results were not good. The blood tests indicated that something very bad was going on inside of her, Dr. Erin really thinks that she has a brain tumor or has had a stroke or aneurysm. She had something going on that indicated that she was constantly dizzy (I don't remember what she called it) and that she is constantly nauseated. (That explains her constant gagging even if we were not doing something to her) She could not stand, made no attempts to put her feet in the correct condition to stand when tested, could not turn over, could not sit up, all she did was lay in the exact same position until we turned her over. Dr Erin also felt that no matter what we did to her, there would be no way to reverse her condition and that she was suffering and would have no quality of life. Dr. Erin is one of those vets that never suggest euthanasia, but she did this time... and I agreed. Hope was suffering and I did not feel she should be put through more tests and more tubes, etc...
Please understand that this was an agonizing decision and not one that was made lightly. We held her and said goodbye and Erin helped her over the rainbow bridge. We hope that we gave her a life time of love in the 5 days she was with us, she was such a sweet soul and will deeply be missed.
Hope was in pretty awful condition when she got here, she had not eaten or drunk anything in 2 days. They had been trying to syringe feed her at every stop. The driver of the transport held her in his lap for the last 4 hours because he was terrified she would die before he got her here. We immediately got her on IV fluids and antibiotics. (It is late Sunday night and our emergency animal care facility is very bad!!) The next morning we got her to the vet. Hope apparently had been hit by a car before animal control picked her up and has spinal damage. She is not able to stand or walk on her own. The animal control facility had not realized how bad off she was because they had no experience with a blind cat. Hope apparently spent a lot of time laying in her litter box or on her towel and they thought that she was very frightened in the facility and was just very shy.
HOPE
