Casey is improving, she has regained almost a pound. She goes
back for X-rays and blood work in 3 weeks.
Wendy was back at the vet again this week. She is losingweight again, she is eating and does not behave as sheis in any pain. She is active. Blood work is not great but not awful. X-rays are not giving us a clear picture of anything going on inside She is very frail.
If you follow us on Facebook you may have seen the post aboutNoah passing away. We were stunned! He had been to thevet in April for his annual check up. Blood work/UA wascompletely normal. Xrays may have shown the lung cancer.We will now automatically do chest x-rays for the FELVcats when we do their check ups. Cats will compensatefor as long as they can and then they go down hillquickly. He went into respiratory distress, the x-rays clearly showed us why and the decision was made toreturn him to his maker. Noah was a sweet shy fellowwho will be missed.
Ernest (FIP) is hanging in there, eating, for the mostpart holding his weight. We will go back to thevet in a few weeks for new blood work and x-raysto see what the FIP is doing.
We weigh the FIV & FELV+ cats every week.The blind cats are weighed every few weeks.Nicky’s weight alerted us that he was having a problem.
He has lost 2 pounds in a month, even though we do see him eating. He is active and acting normal. Off tothe vet we go. Blood work is not encouraging at all.High protein, high globulin, low albumin ... those arenever things you want to see on blood work. Theytypically mean FIP or cancer or something else ugly.X-rays show things concerning. We sent out blood for another test that will help us rule out FIP. He is havinga ultrasound on Tuesday, The Radiologist at state hopefullywill be able to tell us what we are seeing in the x-rays.Right now we are starting him on the same medicines that Ernest is on for FIP. It will not hurt him regardlessof what is going on. Once we have more informationwe will make decisions on what we are going to do.
Autumn (Cancer) is hanging in there. Eating, active, still losingweight but very slowly.
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Sweet Journey was found as a stray in Memphis, Tennessee. The people that found her thoughtshe was blind and deaf. Why? I have no clue.Nothing wrong with either. She does not liketo use a litter box to have a bowel movement.I suspect that is why she was living on the streets.
She is a super sweet friendly little girl. Youwill find her often sleeping curled up with theother cats. She is also our only doublepositive. She is both FIV+ & FELV+ Journey is one of our original 12 FELV cats.She and Liza are the only ones still alive.
A cute video of Journey playing
FELV+ cats are killed so often by rescues, shelters and vet’s offices because there are just not enough reputablerescues to help them. We are full and can not acceptany more FELV+ cats at this time.We are raising money to help build another buildingto help same more lives of cats unfairly euthanizedbecause they test positive for a virus. The newbuilding will include our own lab for running bloodwork, and exam room, hiring a part time vet to come in to examine the cats (we will still go to the vets office with emergencies) and a full time vet tech to help provide quality care for the cats.We hope you will help us make this possible, justclick the picture of Pepper (who is blind & FELV+) below
Some pictures of the kitties that are so grateful to youfor your caring and support!
Little Pebbles - Blind. You can see her on Thursdayon Ustream & Roku
Felix & Poppy
Snicker
Cookie - Felv +
Watch the cats LIVE on Ustream & ROKU
http://ustream.tv/blindcatrescue Live tours atnoon, 3 pm, chat at 6 pm, Boxes at 6:30pmTours at 10 pm Thursday - Monday
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Cat Updates
If you follow us on Facebook you may have seen the post aboutNoah passing away. We were stunned! He had been to thevet in April for his annual check up. Blood work/UA wascompletely normal. Xrays may have shown the lung cancer.We will now automatically do chest x-rays for the FELVcats when we do their check ups. Cats will compensatefor as long as they can and then they go down hillquickly. He went into respiratory distress, the x-rays clearly showed us why and the decision was made toreturn him to his maker. Noah was a sweet shy fellowwho will be missed.
Casey is improving, she has regained almost a pound. She goesback for X-rays and blood work in 3 weeks
Wendy was back at the vet again this week. She is losingweight again, she is eating and does not behave as sheis in any pain. She is active. Blood work is not great but not awful. X-rays are not giving us a clear picture of anything going on inside She is very frail.
Ernest (FIP) is hanging in there, eating, for the mostpart holding his weight. We will go back to thevet in a few weeks for new blood work and x-raysto see what the FIP is doing.
We weigh the FIV & FELV+ cats every week.The blind cats are weighed every few weeks.Nicky’s weight alerted us that he was having a problem.
He has lost 2 pounds in a month, even though we do see him eating. He is active and acting normal. Off tothe vet we go. Blood work is not encouraging at all.High protein, high globulin, low albumin ... those arenever things you want to see on blood work. Theytypically mean FIP or cancer or something else ugly.X-rays show things concerning. We sent out blood for another test that will help us rule out FIP. He is havinga ultrasound on Tuesday, The Radiologist at state hopefullywill be able to tell us what we are seeing in the x-rays.Right now we are starting him on the same medicines that Ernest is on for FIP. It will not hurt him regardlessof what is going on. Once we have more informationwe will make decisions on what we are going to do.
Autumn (Cancer) is hanging in there. Eating, active, still losingweight but very slowly.
Introducing Journey
Sweet Journey was found as a stray in Memphis, Tennessee. The people that found her thoughtshe was blind and deaf. Why? I have no clue.Nothing wrong with either. She does not liketo use a litter box to have a bowel movement.I suspect that is why she was living on the streets.
She is a super sweet friendly little girl. Youwill find her often sleeping curled up with theother cats. She is also our only doublepositive. She is both FIV+ & FELV+ Journey is one of our original 12 FELV cats.She and Liza are the only ones still alive.
A cute video of Journey playing
FELV+ cats are killed so often by rescues, shelters and vet’s offices because there are just not enough reputablerescues to help them. We are full and can not acceptany more FELV+ cats at this time.We are raising money to help build another buildingto help same more lives of cats unfairly euthanizedbecause they test positive for a virus. The newbuilding will include our own lab for running bloodwork, and exam room, hiring a part time vet to come in to examine the cats (we will still go to the vets office with emergencies) and a full time vet tech to help provide quality care for the cats.We hope you will help us make this possible, justclick the picture of Pepper (who is blind & FELV+) below
Watch the cats LIVE on Ustream & ROKU
http://ustream.tv/blindcatrescue Live tours atnoon, 3 pm, chat at 6 pm, Boxes at 6:30pmTours at 10 pm Thursday - Monday