Charlie has made remarkable progress. He is fully integrated in with the other kittens. They play together and sleep together. He is eating, drinking and still gurgling. Mike says he sounds like a washing machine! His belly is slowly shrinking, but his gurgling is getting louder. The vets tell me his lungs sound fine, so when I put my ear up to his tummy, that is where I hear the gurgling. I have no clue what it is. He is such a love until I have to put his ointment in his eye. Then he turns into a fighter. I think I figured it out tonight, it isn’t the ointment that bothers him, it is the scruffing of his neck. Even though I am gentle, it puts pressure on his throat when he fights and I still think he has a bruised throat.

We also adopted a horribly abused German Shepherd. We were told he is 2 years old, but suspect he is much younger. He was used in a puppy mill as a stud. Everything is new to him. We have had him now almost three days. We call him Baron. I took him for a walk today in the woods and he was like a kid in the candy store. Someone has beaten the hell out of this poor dog, and I can’t fathom why? He is good with the cats, he was sexually interested in Kody even though she has been spayed- but we got him neutered yesterday. He is a real joy and we can let him outside now without a leash and he stays with us.