7/28/2013 Skittle and his 2 brothers arrived from a high kill animal shelter. They were lucky that volunteers intercepted them because animal control would have immediately put them to sleep. NC law allows an animal that is sick or injured to be immediately killed. These 3 babies were very sick with upper respiratory and blind. Right now they are only 4 weeks old so we have to get them healthy and to the 2 pound mark before they can have surgury for their eyes... They are all very friendly playful kitties :) 9/25/2013 UPDATE: Finally big enough. They have all been neutered, had all their shots. 11/2018 Skittle went to the vet for his yearly checkup and his blood work showed he was now FELV+! Their regular blood work has a test for it as part of all the testing and has been negative for 5 years! We had him retested with the IFA test, and that was also positive. The PCR (DNA) test was also positive. We have since learned that a cat could be DNA positive and not show up on regular testing until the leukemia decides to become positive. (Kind of like your DNA might show you have a cancer gene but you do not have it until you have it) So, we tested everyone that shares a room with him. One brother tests positive, one tests negative. Crazy huh? So folks, lesson learned, just because your cat tests negative at your vets office, unless you also do a PCR test which vets do not do automatically, (they only do a snap test) your negative cat may some day later become positive. We had 4 cats in that room test positive. We tested all the rest of the cats in the building and they are the only ones positive by DNA. Sponsored by Lynda - Thank you! Sponsored by Lynn - Thank you! Sponsored by Beverly - Thank you! Sponsored by Bhavana - Thank you! Sponsored by Nanci - Thank you! Sponsored by Linda - Thank you! Sponsored by Christina - Thank you!xdcszfve Sponsored by Sherri - Thank you! 12/3/2019 RIP Six years ago Skittle arrived as a very sick kitten with his 2 brothers as a "blind" kitten.  With the help of lots of antibiotics his sight was saved.  For 6 years he has entertained us with his crazy antics and fun personality.   A year ago he tested Leukemia positive. Today he was taken to the vet completely paralyzed from hips down with a saddle thrombosis.   The vet and I had a long conversation about what we might or might not be able to do to help him.  He had no circulation in his feet or tail. He had no reaction in his anal area (which means he had also lost control of his bowels.   We talked about trying clot buster therapy on him but we were also having to consider his horrible liver values that his blood work showed.  X-rays gave us no answers either.  In the end,  we had to weigh could we fix this enough for him to have dignity and quality of life, and we both felt the answer was no.   Letting him go was not easy for me or the vet, but the decision was made with love and in his best interest.  He went quietly over the rainbow bridge in my arms. He was a funny fellow, with his own opinion that he loved to express to us about the way things should be.  He will be missed.