Gadget, the 6 month old badly matted kitty from the last rescue is now in our bedroom. The name does not fit him, I had to come up with it on the fly at the vet’s office. I have renamed him Edison and for the first time since arriving here, he has been venturing out from under the bed. Last night, I woke up with something heavy on my foot and it was him. I was smiling in the dark but I didn’t move because I knew as soon as I did he would flee back under the bed.
I need to make friends with this scared kitty fairly quickly. I am finding mats of black hair all over the floor which is alarming. I also know he has tapeworms but it is hard to work with a kitty who is scared of humans. I will start going in and reading to him out loud today, sitting on the floor to remove the threat and leaving meaty scraps behind. I hope he will forgive me if I read him the book A Dog’s Purpose. 🙂
For the second day, Phantom has allowed me to pet her so I am encouraged by these positive signs.
Things looking better on a couple kittie fronts, anyway.
Is Edison living in conditions where you could mix some wormer in to his food? Not sure how much that would help, but you might manage to give the parasites a stomach ache, at least.
Tried it twice already with dismal results. He wouldn’t even touch the food but when it was replaced with just canned cat food, he ate it all- figures! The wormer doesn’t smell good and I bet the taste is pretty bad as most cats will drool if they don’t swallow it quickly whole.
I loved reading about all the different stories you had for all the different cats. It’s very heartwarming to know that there are people out there that will go out of their way for an animal. Not a lot of people do that nowadays so reading this gives me a little hope for humanity :).