Sisters Rosa and Luna weren’t street cats, but they were kept in isolation in a cat room with hardly any human contact the first 18 months of their lives. They spent most of the first year they were with me together on my drawer when I was at home, slowly venturing out but always out of reach.
It can take lots of time, much more than all the cute rescue videos on youtube show. But damned it’s worth it. They are worth it. Wishing you all success with Toffee, once they feel secure enough and they trust you they will love you more than anything.
Here’s Luna and Rosa, in the first year with me, on my bed while I’m not home (I just walked in).
You made such a point there; it takes just a bit longer than the nice rescue videos they show on effin FB. I must say, the person that gave her to me wasn’t 100% honest, she said I would need “a little patience” and that she would need “a few weeks”. She did actually tell me not too long ago that she never thought “I would keep her”, and that she was “getting me in quite a mess” It’s been almost 8 months! But we have progressed a lot, I’m not there yet, but we have reached a certain harmony at home!
Such a cutie! I think you’ll get together and she’ll learn to really trust you. But even if that doesn’t happen I think it’s still a privilege to share your home with such a magnificent creature. And you still will have rescued her from the streets. But looking at the pics I think you’ll make much more progress and good things will happen.
Moka and Toffee get along well. They play a lot, and that’s already something. In fact I adopted Moka once I realized that things with Toffee we’re gonna be a very looooong story, trying to get her out of her shell. I’ll keep you posted!
This is the mum cat, she had one set of kittens 4 years ago and i had to keep one and then she was neutered.
Her name is Arloo (5) her son is stewy (4) and then basil is the youngest (2) My 19 year old son rescued him as a kitten from living in terrible conditions.
did he receive treatment?? I’m so torn. either remove tumor, remove tumor then follow up with chemo, or let nature run its course. rufus isn’t even 10 years old! I need more time, yet at what cost? is my selfishness actually cruelty? how am I supposed to make a decision where every choice seems wrong? help me cat people I really need advice. I haven’t seen him in week and I think he’s declining.
so let’s recap. not doing anything=bad. every other choice I make=also seems bad. I am lost.
It’s an impossible choice. Rosa had an aggressive form of ovarian cancer and by the time it became clear she was ill it was already too late to do anything. So the choice was made for me already. She was not even ten years old. It was hard.
Talk to others, to vets, to friends with pets. We take these little lives into our hands and we have to make the hardest choices at times like this. I can’t tell you what to do, all I can say is please do what is best for your friend. Rufus doesn’t know or understand. I don’t think I could do chemo or radiation on a pet but I am not in the situation so I don’t know really. I’m with you in spirit and thoughts friend. I know how tough this is. Hugs.
somebody gave me some advice. keep a journal. when rufus has 4 bad days out of 7, it’s too late. that means over half of his life is bad. cats handle chemo extremely well, more so than dogs or people even. I still see a spark in his eye, he’s still grooming, and trying to attack a feather wand. I can always pay off a credit card, I will never get another cat like him. he’s one in a trillion. this cat expects morning cuddles and will literally flop himself down and be the little spoon and scooch himself up to where his neck is in your chin and will just make a million biscuits. I am lucky that I’ve had his presence in my life thus far, and when it is time for him to cross the rainbow bridge I want it to be in his own home, not in a cold sterile vet room.
best believe I’m getting a tattoo in his honor. with a little sailor hat with an anchor on it, and him smoking a little kitty tobacco pipe. I need to put his dignity above my need to have him, and for me that is the hardest thing to pinpoint. exactly when is time.
I am already grateful for this community, thank you to you all. going on 6 days right now. I feel strong and capable. thank you all again
My cat was diagnosed by sonogram as having lymphoma and a stricture in her intestine, possible IBS. She kept throwing up. She was down to 7.75lbs. My vet said she would live 2.5 months. The vet put her on 7.5mg prednisolone and said it would help regardless if it was lymphoma or IBS. Changed her diet from Hill’s C/D which I am convinced was killing her, and put her on Hill’s I/D wet and Iam’s Healthy Kitten dry food.
( I told the vet that if she had cancer I would not want to do chemo and therefore not do a lymph gland biopsy.)
She has thrived. She is at 12.8 lbs and is dieting with 1/4 Iams Healthy Senior and 3/4 Healthy Kitten. Until the (new, her vet took a leave of absence) vet saw her blood work she wanted her off the Healthy Kitten. ( she’s almost 14).Now the vet wants her at 1/2 and 1/2.
This is just my cat;s story. We are at 6 months now and for all appearences very healthy. The vet said that she has had cats on the prednisolone for many years some times. No throwing up since July.
I have a friend who was told her dog had cancer from a sonogram. The dog just had a CT scan bc of knee surgery and it was determined no cancer of the liver.
I may not have read all your prior posts. Again, this is just my cat’s story and there may be something helpful in there I do not know. Thinking about you and your family, the kitty and the rest.
i didnt see this thread before and its really uplifting my spirits seeing all these cute cats of ours.
