Here are our two boys that we've had for about a month. We adopted them from Manawatu Alley Cat Trust, who are amazing!
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Here are our two boys that we've had for about a month. We adopted them from Manawatu Alley Cat Trust, who are amazing!
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I have bought him for my wife last month. We called him Gucci =)
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🐈 As promised here is the grave site in our garden and the statues of our two cats Captain (left - deceased 28/08/17) and Skipper (right - deceased 15/02/2020). The statues are a fairly good likeness painted by my sister-in-law.
Rest in peace girls and play nicely. 🐈
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Here is Gizzy in his new pc build seems to be enjoying it so far.
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Happy 11 month birthday, handsome wee boy!
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Tuffy the one-eyed kitten
Stray cats come around our farm to be fed. Some are wary, and slink quietly in and out. Others are more relaxed, and rub up against our legs to be stroked.
One tiny kitten was particularly friendly. It would huddle up against the door, waiting for someone to appear. It wanted more than just food. It was on its own, possibly abandoned by its mother, and it was asking for my help.
The kitten would try to snuggle up to me, seeking affection and gazing at me with pleading eyes. The eyes were horrible. They were encrusted with discharge, with more oozing out. The left eye bulged unnaturally. The kitten’s long fur was matted and filthy. It was unsteady on its feet.
With the weather growing colder at night, I doubted that the scrawny little thing would survive for long. It didn’t have trouble feeding. When the food was put out, it would push between much bigger cats and claim its portion with its front paws in the plate. Though tiny and frail, it was a scrapper.
After some consideration, I decided that I couldn’t just leave it to its fate. It was asking for my help, and I couldn’t say no. I brought it inside and put it in a cage in a spare room. I gave it food and water. It ate with an impressive appetite.
Under the Covid 19 lockdown, I am high-risk and cannot normally venture out. I rang the vet for a phone consultation. Fortunately, a hospital visit was due and it was easy to stop by the vet on the way and pick up a bag of prescribed food and medicine waiting outside.
I began administering the eye ointment and it seemed to help, but the bulging eye still bulged and the kitten turned out to have a very bad case of diarrhoea, amply fuelled by a raging appetite. I have never seen a cat eat like this one does. A sign of health I guess, in spite of everything. I tried giving the kitten a bath to soak off some of the encrusted excrement in its fur. I didn’t have any cat shampoo so I just used warm water. It didn’t remove much of the crap, but it did make it easier to cut the worst of it away with scissors.
I moved the kitten to a bigger cage to make it more comfortable, but every morning it was still covered in excrement. There wasn’t room for a litter box and the poor kitten kept crapping all over the towel I gave it for a bed. It needed proper accommodation.
I shoved old computers and boxes of unwanted electronics and other rubbish to one side and placed some big wooden boxes to make an enclosed space in a corner of the room. This was much better than the cage and I was able to put a litter box in it, as well as the bed. The kitten had room to move around and immediately made good use of the litter box. But I was worried that the diarrhoea didn’t seem to improve. I finally decided that a vet had to actually see the kitten.
I was able to arrange a contactless appointment and brought the kitten into town. I waited in the car while the vet examined it. The prognosis was expensive. The bulging eye had to be removed or the kitten had to be put down.
How much is the life of a suffering little being worth? I just saw something on the news about a bag of dead kittens being found that had starved to death. I wish I could find the people responsible, strip them naked, and hang them by their feet from a lamppost along the highway. Some people do not deserve to exist.
That kitten and I had already been through a lot together. No way could I turn my back on it now. The bulging eye was damaged beyond repair. It was infected from the back and had burst. The kitten was in pain. Ultimately the eye would kill it. I didn’t have to think about it long. I figured I could always give up drinking for a month or so. I swallowed deep and I told the vet to go ahead with the operation. Then I told the vet to give the kitten the royal treatment, vaccinations, worming, desexing, cure the diarrhoea, the whole ball of wax. What the hell.
They kept the kitten for another 24 hours to work on the diarrhoea. Then another. And another. And another. After a week it finally dumped a bucketload of worms and its excrement became firmer. I was finally told I could pick the kitten up. I sold my soul to the devil and paid the bill. The clinic took pity and gave me a small discount.
Back home the kitten has managed to sabotage every effort I have made to give it the prescribed medicine. Whatever I try, it spits it out. It also immediately escaped from my improvised pen and took over the entire room. This is one strong-minded little kitten. But I already knew that.
When I was on my way to the vet, I had been thinking in the car how that little kitten was a real survivor, actually quite tough in spite of its frail appearance. It had good instincts. It needed help and it found someone to ask. It needed a friend and it chose me. Tough … tuff … Tuffy. It needed a name. Now it had one.
This is Tuffy the one-eyed very expensive kitten.
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COVID-19 lockdown plainly obvious in the before and after here. George was so happy to get his vision back the other day 😂
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Misty is looking forward to her groom on Friday.
The wife has her groom booked for Thursday 🤣
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Misty is looking forward to her groom on Friday.
The wife has her groom booked for Thursday 🤣
So, it's an arranged marriage then? :-)
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Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos
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Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos
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