Richard
11/2020 Richard is a leukemia positive cat. He came to us with his 3 siblings from animal
control. They had run out of time and were scheduled to be euthanized.
He is a very friendly playful fellow. We hope we get some time to watch him grow up.
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3/22/2021 Richard arrived in November 2020 with his leukemia-positive siblings. He was not in
great shape when he arrived and an ultrasound told us that we were hospice for
him. He improved for a little bit and enjoyed a month or 2 of feeling decent, playing,
gaining weight, and getting to be a normal kitten. A few weeks ago he spiked a 105+
fever and was rushed to the vet. He was hospitalized for 2 days and we brought him
home for whatever time he would have. We also started a new experimental
medicine for leukemia that we were hoping would give us a miracle. Every day he
was spiking high fevers, every day we were giving him medicine to take the fever
down. He is eating but his weight continued to drop from cancer. He now weighs
what he did when he arrived.
Sunday we knew that we had reached our last good day for him. No more nasty
tasting medicine that made him gag, no more needles, a day of peace. It was a
good day, a pretty day, he spent it outside on the catio, the staff spent extra time with
him.
This morning he and I made our last trip to the vet and I held him as he went over
the rainbow bridge.
He was a sweet loving fellow who tolerated having his temperature every day, taking
awful medicines, shots, etc. We will miss his sweet gentle spirit. We wish the new
medicine had helped change our outcome.