Cookie

4/2015 Cookie came to us from the Dillon Animal Control Center. A very high kill shelter. Cookie had tested FELV+ the volunteers had told me about Cookie when they brought me Sasha, I had told them no that time but told them to IFA test her. Ernest had just been diagnosed with FIP so there was a possibility of an opening. The volunteers called me a week later and told me this story. Cookie had been put into a carrier (like you take your cats to the vet in, no litter box or anything) by the Animal Control staff. (Actually convicts from the prison take care of the animals). Anyway she was put in the carrier to be taken to be euthanized. Some how she ended up in a room with carriers and never taken. Also not fed or anything else. She was found in the carrier on Saturday by volunteers laying in her own filth. They called us and begged us to take her. After that story how on earth could I say no? She stinks to high heck. Poor thing is scared but friendly. She has had 2 baths and still stinks. She has come down with the animal control upper respiratory infection (they all do) We have her on antibiotics and she is at the vet’s today (4/21) for a full physical and a bath with the groomer. She is friendly but frightened. She loves to be scratched above her tail, she does an immediate butt pop up. 1/2016 She has had some health issues and having to take high dosage steroids to clear it. High dosage steroids in cats will cause diabetes, which he has been diagnosed with. 3/2016 Now that she is done with her steroid treatment, her diabetes has disappeared. I know she is glad no more needles. 1/28/19 This is a very difficult letter to write. Cookie came to us 3 years ago from an animal control facility who had put her in a carrier, took her to be euthanized, skipped over her carrier, and then put her in a storage room inside the carrier for 2 days with no food or water. Volunteers found her on the 3 rd day. The shelter was going to go ahead and euthanize her after she was found and the volunteers had a full fit threatening to go to the press. The problem was Cookie was also Leukemia positive so they were given 24 hours to place her. They contacted us, told us the story and we said to bring her. When she arrived the hair on her abdomen was dyed red from the red blanket that had been in the carrier. (It was wet from her urinating on it for 2 days) Cookie has had a few good years of health with us. The last few months she has suffered from horrible mouth problems and blisters. She has been to the vet more times than I can count and on so many medications. This weekend her mouth was worse than when we started, obviously, it was not working. I took her back to the vet Saturday honestly with the intention of euthanizing her, I just felt that her quality of life was terrible, she was in pain and we had done everything possible for her. BUT when Cookie came out of the carrier she was butt popping and just did not have "the look" of someone ready to go. The vet and I agreed on Monday when they had full staff they would put her under and get full skull Xrays etc and see if we could get more information to make a decision of how to treat her or to let her go. The x-rays told the story, she has severe mouth cancer. The vet called me while she was under and told me what she was looking at. I said do not wake her, tell her goodbye for me and I am so sorry. Let her go... I know 100% in my heart it was the right thing to do. We gave her 3 years more than she would have had. She was comfortable, l oved and cared for. That is sometimes all we can hope for in life. She will be missed. She was a very sweet girl. I am sorry Alana