Piper
7/18 Little Piper is 8 weeks old and leukemia positive. She was rescued from animal control and delivered to us from Thorn. That lady spends so many hours driving animals to safety! We are so blessed to know her! Piper was rescued from a high kill facility from a rescuer. Her mother was leukemia positive and very ill, She was put to sleep by the shelter. Her siblings were all sick and died. She was the lone survivor and for a time there was a big question if she was going to survive to come to us. She had salmonella and coccidia to start with, both can be fatal to a little one like her. She is super friendly and playful. We hope she will get to be with us for years.
Sponsored by Sander - Thank you! Sponsored by Cheryl - Thank you! Sponsored by Barbara - Thank you! Sponsored by Bhavana - Thank you!
8/20/2019 (This is the letter I sent to her sponsors) This is a very difficult letter to be writing. Little Piper came to us a year ago as a very sick leukemia positive kitten. Her mother and siblings had all passed away before she arrived to us and we were concerned she would survive when she arrived because she was so sick. We got her healthy and she became a very friendly fun kitten who loved to play with the others, ran the wheel like crazy and lived her best life. Two weeks ago we could see her behavior had changed, she was no longer playing. She was eating but losing weight. Off to the vet we went. Blood work and x-rays were all pretty normal, they weren't telling us what we were fighting yet. Late last week we were back at the vets, she was now a "hot" cat. Fever over 105. She spent the last 4 days in the hospital become very sick with a severe infection, running fevers in the 105-106 range. She came home yesterday still sick from the vets office, still with a fever and lots of meds. This morning she suddenly went blind. Back to the vets office we went. The blindness was not caused by blood pressure. She was miserable, now blind, horribly nauseous even though we had given her meds and fluids. The vets felt and I agreed we were dealing with lymphoma or FIP. We could keep fighting, forcing her to take lots of nasty medicines, her being nauseous, having to have needles stuck in her for fluids, still running hot and feeling awful, Or we could say, enough and let her go. It has always been our philosophy that it is better to go out on a good day verses a bad day. She sat in my lap purring, being loved on, we sedated her and then let her go. She was not afraid or in pain at the end. We could have kept her alive for another week or so but she would have gone on a very very bad day, instead she went on an ok day. Sometimes that is all we can ask for.
Piper
7/18 Little Piper is 8 weeks old and leukemia positive. She was rescued from animal control and delivered to us from Thorn. That lady spends so many hours driving animals to safety! We are so blessed to know her! Piper was rescued from a high kill facility from a rescuer. Her mother was leukemia positive and very ill, She was put to sleep by the shelter. Her siblings were all sick and died. She was the lone survivor and for a time there was a big question if she was going to survive to come to us. She had salmonella and coccidia to start with, both can be fatal to a little one like her. She is super friendly and playful. We hope she will get to be with us for years.
Sponsored by Sander - Thank you! Sponsored by Cheryl - Thank you! Sponsored by Barbara - Thank you! Sponsored by Bhavana - Thank you!
8/20/2019 (This is the letter I sent to her sponsors) This is a very difficult letter to be writing. Little Piper came to us a year ago as a very sick leukemia positive kitten. Her mother and siblings had all passed away before she arrived to us and we were concerned she would survive when she arrived because she was so sick. We got her healthy and she became a very friendly fun kitten who loved to play with the others, ran the wheel like crazy and lived her best life. Two weeks ago we could see her behavior had changed, she was no longer playing. She was eating but losing weight. Off to the vet we went. Blood work and x-rays were all pretty normal, they weren't telling us what we were fighting yet. Late last week we were back at the vets, she was now a "hot" cat. Fever over 105. She spent the last 4 days in the hospital become very sick with a severe infection, running fevers in the 105-106 range. She came home yesterday still sick from the vets office, still with a fever and lots of meds. This morning she suddenly went blind. Back to the vets office we went. The blindness was not caused by blood pressure. She was miserable, now blind, horribly nauseous even though we had given her meds and fluids. The vets felt and I agreed we were dealing with lymphoma or FIP. We could keep fighting, forcing her to take lots of nasty medicines, her being nauseous, having to have needles stuck in her for fluids, still running hot and feeling awful, Or we could say, enough and let her go. It has always been our philosophy that it is better to go out on a good day verses a bad day. She sat in my lap purring, being loved on, we sedated her and then let her go. She was not afraid or in pain at the end. We could have kept her alive for another week or so but she would have gone on a very very bad day, instead she went on an ok day. Sometimes that is all we can ask for.