Her cage is ready to go and she sits in Portland and waits until I can get to her or get halfway to her. After paying most of my expansive vet bill, there is only a little left in the Kitty. I am not sure what her spay will entail- we won’t know that until she is actually here, been accessed by my vet and evaluated and the operation is underway. If they have to use special breathing machines or different anesthesia the cost could be substantial. But I will not let her be a victim of her hormones much longer. No reason to take an aggressive cat and not do all that is possible to stop the aggression. If you can contribute- God Bless You- We stay afloat on top of the kindness and compassion of others.Otherwise, we would sink like a stone.

Just got off the phone with the woman who rescued Agatha. She was found July 2nd of this year by a neighbor along with three kittens about 7 weeks old. The neighbor couldn’t keep the cats so this other woman took the family and found homes for all the kittens. She kept the mom and took her in to be spayed- (they used phenobarbital, morphine and ace-promozine during the process) and Agatha stopped breathing. She was brought back and it was decided NOT to spay her suspecting a cardiac issue.

The woman has two other cats, a husband and a small child, and she suffers from depression/ anxiety attacks. The cats don’t get along which intensifies the depression and she just wants the peace in her home to return.

Since the arrival of Agatha, the other two cats who have gotten along- are now fighting (which is fairly common). The gal doesn’t want to invest any more time in trying to get everyone on the same page. She has contacted all the different rescue groups and shelters only to be turned down for various reasons: to old, too aggressive no room…

When asked if she took the time to try and find the original owner, she said she had tried and on a fluke, did find someone in Newburg who claimed to own the calico and wanted her back. The rescuer lives in Beaverton (that’s about 30 miles) But, when she tried to give the cat back to the owner, she was told suddenly the girl couldn’t take her back and didn’t want her. So there you go.

I go to pick Agatha up in the morning. We will meet halfway so it will be a two hour drive on my end. My vet called tonight, he got the faxed vet records and there is confusion as if this cat has even been vaccinated- SO she will go into my isolation room at first and I will vaccinate her from beginning to end before putting her into the main enclosure cage so she can get used to the others.

We talked about just having her treated with a new pet exam. If he hears anything abnormal in her chest or finds something alarming, then he will do chest films and bloodwork if warranted to find out if something is wrong with her that would prevent a spay. She’s never even been tested for any diseases, and so that will be the first thing we will do just to be safe. If there is nothing alarming found, she will be put into the spay schedule and they will not use the drugs previously mentioned (they don’t use two of those drugs anyway and haven’t for many years). So that’s the plan.

The hope is the spay goes well, over time, Agatha will accept the others, or I can find her a home where she will be an only cat. Sometimes, cats get the short end of the stick, and it sounds like Agatha is one of those cats. We will see how it goes-Poor thing- 8 years old and she has had kittens-more than one litter you can bet. That’s a lot of stress for a cat to handle.

The woman cried when I told her I would take Agatha. She said she will be glad to cancel the vet appointment where Agatha was going to be euthanized for “extreme aggression.”