Smol Cat Update
Added 2017-08-26 12:09:49 +0000 UTCSince lots of you like animals... here is Ron Weasley, who is filling out quickly on a proper diet of kitten food after presumably surviving on lizards and insects for the first four months of his life. We have successfully conquered his fleas, heartworms, and hookworms, only to discover he has a tapeworm (specifically, the kind you get from eating lizards, and harder to kill than the flea variety). So he has endured three days of disgusting (and expensive) pills to address that issue. We're hoping the tapeworm explains his anemia, which is what caused the vet to cancel his surgery to be neutered, and his rabies shot. In two weeks, we'll see if we can get that done.
Apparently if ever a cat needed a home, it is this poor thing. I am torn between a practical maternal need to fix him and abject horror at the vet bills. When did vets get so expensive? Good lord. Some of his medications are more expensive than mine. o_O
But anyway. He remains a social sort, and talks incessantly: his noises are a sliding scale between purring and mewing, so that most of the time he seems to be trilling or singing? It is very strange. But he will carry on a conversation with anyone who will meow at him, and it clearly doesn't matter a whit to him that we're talking nonsense. He's just glad for the company.
Comments
Glad he found a new forever home and good luck with the bills. They are quite horrifying at times.
Tygepc
2017-09-01 20:04:20 +0000 UTCYou might consider Trupanion, because vet bills CAN get crazy. My 16 year old cat was diagnosed with late stage cancer, and it was such a relief to be able to make decisions based on what was best for her rather than think so much about the (horrible) costs that led up to her diagnosis. Had treatment been viable, we would have been able to do it. I can't imagine how heartbreaking the converse would have been.
Anonymous
2017-08-29 04:48:20 +0000 UTC
