Approximate Age (As of 2017): 9 years Breed: Domestic Short Hair Status: Blind Date Arrived: 2008 Arrival Location: New Year Jamie, along with his sister Poppy, were found living as strays in New York City. A kind woman found and rescued the pair of them but found that she could not keep them. She contacted us and we agreed to take them in. She brought them in from New York, as well as made a large donation to cover all their immediate medical bills. Jamie and Poppy both had very infected and ulcerated eyes (most likely stemming from an upper respiratory infection) that were removed once they were older and weighed enough. They both also had a severe ring worm infection. Jamie grew to be a friendly and feisty boy. Jamie also has some very distinguishable canine teeth - which is why we affectionately refer to him as Jamie the Vampire, in any photos you can easily tell that it’s him by his “fangs”. Thankfully he does not use these fangs for blood sucking, but is very playful and might offer you some love bites instead. You may watch him Live 24 hours a day on his MeShare camera. He is in House 1, room 1

1/22/2021 Writing this is something I am having a hard time wrapping my head and heart around. A few weeks ago we took Jamie to the vet because he was losing weight. The vet found that he had a very bad tooth that was infected and it needed to be removed. The pre-surgery blood work showed he was also very anemic and also had all kinds of other things going on with all of his organs. Now hard decisions had to be made, do we do the surgery and take a chance that he won't come off the table? Do we wait, making him stay in pain and try to fix all the problems, not knowing if the tooth and the infection with the tooth were causing the problems? We choose to remove the tooth and hoped to get the infection under control. We brought him home on tons of medication. We brought him home and he was still struggling. He was not eating enough and he was still losing weight. We returned to the vet and his blood work was much worse. He was hospitalized on IV antibiotics. X-rays showed that he had something going on abdominally. A biopsy of his spleen was sent out and sadly came back as multiple myeloma. Worse it was in his blood and throughout his whole body. I had 2 very long conversations with 2 different vets to see what our options were. The bottom line was the choices would have been worse than the disease, we would have caused him considerable suffering and he would have died anyway. We are about the quality of life. We are about being allowed to die with dignity. We are about not allowing the cats to suffer at the end. Our philosophy has always been, it is better to go on a good day, not a bad day. 1 day early than 1 day late when they are horribly suffering. Sadly today was his day. I sat and cuddled with him for a little bit and then he went over the rainbow bridge curled up in my arms. Jamie was such a sweet cat. His nickname was Fangs. He loved to walk the wheel and he loved humans. We are all heartbroken saying goodbye to him. He will be very missed!