Casey
Blind Cat News 5/1/2015
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Ernest is hanging in there, eating and active on
the interferon and PI. He goes back in next
Wednesday for blood work to see how his system
is doing. We took him in to re-do his blood work
last week and were pleased. It does show the
disease is progressing but very slowly. He is
eating, has regained a bit of weight. The medicines
are helping. The polyprenyl Immunostimulant is
not super cheap but is effective. We will test again
next week. We just have to cross our fingers now
that the FIP stays in the dry form.
Ernest
Autumn
Autumn went back to Raleigh to see the oncologist
and sadly all tests show her cancer is back. We are
heartbroken! She went through almost a years
worth of radiation and chemo with high hopes for
a cure. Sadly that is not going to be. The cancer
has spread. We are giving her steroids and
interferon to try to hold the cancer at bay for as long
as possible. The vet thinks that she has months at
best. If we tried another round of chemo she
might buy an additional 6 months. We have elected
not to put her through that again. She hates being
in the care, being poked with needs etc. We
want her last months to be full of peace and love.
She is still eating and playing. She will let us know
when it is time to let her go.
Sweet Casey had started losing weight despite
having a healthy appetite. We took her to
our vet for a full work up. Her blood work
was concerning enough that we asked for an
immediate referral to take her to the vets
in Raleigh. $4100 later we still do not
have a 100% answer. She has a large mass
showing up on her chest x-rays. The biopsy
of them show that it is some kind of bacterial
infection. We are now having to wait for
them to grow the samples and see what is
effective against it. Th vets also did
say that what they are seeing could actually
be a mass behind a bacterial infection. We
have her home with a feeding tube while
we wait to see what antibiotics we need
to treat her. She is going back to Raleigh
in 2 weeks to see how things are progressing.
Cookie
Cookie had a much desperate needed dental
by our local vet. She is going back to the
dental vet for a consult Monday and have
another dental scheduled. My local vet
does not have dental X-rays, I want to make
sure no roots were left behind or any
problems left in her mouth that could not
be seen with out x-rays. She behaves like
she feels much better already.
Toby
Toby has been renamed Tabitha, because
he was actually a she. (I will admit that
I did not get personal with her private
parts and her hair was hiding things)
She has been spayed, her eyes taken care
of, has started eating better, is obviously
feeling better.
Pebble
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Pebble - our newest little girl. She
is a very sweet little girl who is not
amused at the other cats. You may
watch her live on Thursday at
http://ustream.tv/blindcatrescue
You may read her story at
http://blindcats.org/pebble.htm
Thank you so much to our wonderful eBay sellers and buyers
for sharing so generously with the cats! You may check out all
the wonderful auctions that are being shared with the cats by
clicking HERE
We have a really cool way to donate now.
you can respond on any post of ours on
the BCR facebook page with # (hashtag)
donate and the dollar amount (example,
#donate $25.00) and the system will send
you a link that takes you 1 minute to register
and donate. Once you have registered
you do not have to register again. You
may also do the same thing on Twitter
except on twitter it would look like this:
#donate @blindcatrescue $25.00
We hope that if you see a post that you like
on Facebook you will give it a try :)
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Click every day:
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as your charity and their foundation will make a donation
to the cats
Make your own fundraiser for the cats. Share your birthday,
anniversary or anything else you would like.
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Do you like to run, walk, jog? Download the resqwalk app,
pick Blind Cat rescue and then will donate
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Lots of Free Ways to help the cats!
We hope you will look at our new giving grid fund raiser. We are committed to spaying/neutering
1500 homeless cats this year, and we can not do it without your help! This will help save the lives
of tens of thousands of kittens being born into hunger, homelessness and poverty.
The cats say thank you so much for all the gifts you send them from our Amazon wish list!
http://amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/14VUTQST8F5XH Amazon never gives us your
contact information so we are unable to contact you to thank you. Often we do not get
packing slips with any names or even packing slips. We post our thank you’s on Facebook
and on our blog (http://blindcatrescue.blogspot.com) We are so very grateful to all of you
for your generosity and kindness for all you do for the cats!! You may watch us open boxes live
on http://ustream.tv/blindcatrescue Thursday - Monday’s at 6:30 pm EST. We hope you will tune in.
Paul helping Amber during boxes
Mack with Glen & Ginny Gina giving kisses
We hope you enjoyed!
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