I know, I keep flipping his name back and forth. But I like One-Eyed better than Popeye- Popeye sounds flippant given all he has endured-
One-Eyed had a photo shoot yesterday- his 5 seconds of fame will start right now. He has come from this taken the day after his surgery:
To this:
I am busted exhausted. We are rescuing a dog tomorrow and I spent the whole morning working to build a new pen for the two dogs. This dog looks remarkably like Quincy except he is a tad bit older. I have been out since 8:00 a.m. with George working on the new enclosure. George told me that we may not take that great care of our property at times or our house, but we sure do take care of our animals. LOL We go to meet Kai tomorrow and hope the meet and greet and “sharing” of the food bowls and the truck go well. The woman is in a bad spot and the dog needs a new home pronto. I heard about him on FidoLove.com
Here is the dog who might be joining our family tomorrow
Received an email from a lady who lost her one-eyed cat a few years ago. She is interested in fostering (at first) Popeye! She has to speak to her husband tonight when he gets home from work but she was so excited to find the ad and call me about him. Please pray this is the right move for Popeye
He was dumped on a road famous for finding abandoned cats/dogs/kittens and rabbits on. He is a real sweetheart. Very mellow- tried putting him with Popeye- epic fail! LOL
Two- four week old black kittens arrived this morning. The gentleman handing them over told me that the mom had died in a freak accident (I didn’t ask) and he had been in touch with several rescues and no one would take them not even the shelters because of the ringworm. It is pretty severe- one kitty has about four hairs left on the top of his head. But I told the guy we would take them and probably why others refused had nothing to do with the ringworm but more with the color of the kittens. I know that ringworm is frustrating to deal with, but most shelters will accept them and just deal with the frustration.
So now instead of 8 kittens there are ten and the existing kittens are already eating us out of house and home! Two more mouths to feed in the mix. The babies are semi-feral but I believe more scared and missing mom than anything else.
Jack spent a comfortable day inside his “man cave.” He finally decided to begin eating again at 4:00. I was getting worried. I have been giving him the rest of his pain meds and I think that has helped as well even though the vet said the pain meds weren’t necessary anymore. I think they just calm him down a bit. No one has stepped up to adopt him yet- but we are still hoping.
The vet called early this morning and told me that Popeye’s fever is down but he was wrecking the heck out of his cage, yowling and being a total pill, Would I please come and get him?
He’s been here all day and the only place I can put him is back in the deck enclosure. I have three fans, a bucket of ice in front of two of the fans. I have tried him in the house- won’t work, very confrontational with the other cats. No cages big enough in the house to keep him in without him stressing out so he is on CL as a special needs kitty in need of a foster home or a permanent loving home. I have done everything I can do to keep him cool and he was open mouth panting and his temp was raising so I gave him 40 ml of fluids and he tipped over? It was the strangest thing. I have never seen anything like it in my life. He took the fluids, then he just froze almost like he was moving slow motion- and tipped over.
I have asked all my volunteers and friends if they can take him but so far, he seems to be stuck here. Thankfully the triple digit temp is supposed to lower tomorrow. I hope so, there is a real possibility that despite all our efforts, he might not make it.