To put it shortly: times have been pretty horrible here. Loads of sick cats, cat hospital full, cats dying... it's that time of the year again when all the diseases and viruses get active. Panleukopenia being the worst. On top of several panleukopenia cases: we've had a kitten with broken leg, orphan kittens, a cat with possible cancer and what else. Some we have been able to save, some have died no matter how hard we try to save their lives.
At the moment our cat hospital is totally full.
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| Danny |
And what a nightmare it was yesterday when Tori from Lutwala Dive sent me a message that a cat was just brought in who has trouble breathing and is nearly dead already. But there was a medicine we could try for the cat, and I rushed over to the cat shop to pick up the medicine and then hurried to Lutwala Cat Hospital. I had a weird feeling about this case, 6th sense of a crazy cat lady, I guess. And when I got to the cat hospital, I saw right away the cat in this serious condition is my own Danny. What a shock! We have no idea what happened to him, he was found lying on a tiny path in the middle of coconut trees, he had serious trouble breathing and was already turning blue when he was brought to Lutwala. Good that we have the cat hospital in a dive shop: there was 100% oxygen at hand, and Danny was given that, in addition to loads of medication. He's doing a bit better now, breathing is a little bit easier, he walks around a bit, purrs and is alert. He's not eating though and his breathing is still very heavy, but nothing compared to what it was yesterday. Hopefully he will survive, I cannot stand losing another cat, have already buried 4 within the past 2 weeks. And 2 of my cats have been missing for days now and I'm worried sick something happened to them. They're brothers of Tarja, my cat who died 2 weeks ago.
We try to be happy about the cats that we are able to save, but of course it's hard and sad when you lose one of your own cats, whom you've known and loved since they were tiny babies.
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| One of our success stories: Tripod, a kitten whose leg was so broken it had to be amputated. But he's doing well now and is a happy, active kitten! |
Hopefully we've now seen the worst and things will calm down a bit. We had to cancel Sunset Vet visit this month, due to all diseases going around like crazy, we didn't think it is a good time to have anything extra ongoing now. And also the big March clinic is close already, so soon we will have vets here again.
