30 minutes ago,received a call from Sweet Home Police about a cat found lying by the side of the road. I went to the location and found a black tomcat whose paws are really messed up (split and nasty infected) I wrapped him in a towel and he didn’t complain when I popped him into a carrier and raced home.

So much for being sweet- I took him into the bathroom to clean out his wounds and access him and he went full feral on me, hissing and spitting, tearing up the shower curtain- crashing  into the slick shower walls as he tried to escape. I couldn’t even put my hands on him- so I wrapped him up in a towel, put him back in the carrier and put him inside the cage in the cat enclosure. He is rail skinny and boney- he looks like he hasn’t seen a decent meal in months and he needs this wounds cleaned out- but I can’t touch him. So Plan B is to just provide him food, water, shelter until Monday and call the vet and get him in to be tested before we proceed any further with him. I call him Quince after the street I found him on- he has massive hair loss but I couldn’t even put flea treatment on him. Food and water will hopefully calm him down and perhaps tomorrow he will allow me to examine him and debride his wounds. If not- Monday isn’t that far away. He looks like he has mange, but mange in Oregon in cats is pretty rare. He’s seen better days that’s for sure-

Pirna has been still losing weight and so another trip to the vet had to be endured. She has been diagnosed with PKD Polycistic Kidney Disease a disease common in Persians and Persian crosses. She crossed over this morning peacefully being put down with all the dignity that she lacked in her life. She was in kidney failure which is why two prescriptions of appetite stimulants failed to jump-start her into eating- and why she was missing the box and flooding the underside of the litterboxes with her urine. It is also why she was losing weight at an alarming rate.

Goodbye beautiful Princess- you were loved while you were here with us and won’t be forgotten any time soon.

Here was another Persian cat we rescued years ago with very different results!

Starlight

They are now eating on their own, even Hooty. He is still on his antibiotics and although they are three months old now, they only weigh in at about 2 pounds. I am going to wait to have them spayed until they weigh 4 pounds just to be safe. They have gone through so much together- and they are all silly, wonderful, beautiful kittens. I am grateful they survived the ordeal, I am having to clean up the kitten room about three times a day because they are 5 little terrors! LOL