foster cat update
Paolo continues to be very sick. Normally, I'd write about Ramona being sick (which she is), but Paolo is just so much sicker. Both of them have upper respiratory infections, but Paolo has black snot all around his eyes and nose. I've cleaned it off, but his face doesn't stay clean long. He's wheezing and you can hear all the phlegm in his breathing. I've started him on a slurry made of high-calorie prescription food mixed with some tasty canned food.
Despite feeling sick, he's starting to arch his back up when I pet him. Until yesterday, he just sat there stoically. This poor guy has been through so much -- dragging an injured leg through the sleet on Baltimore Avenue, living under the foundation of a building, nursing this infection. I comfort myself by thinking that if I hadn't pulled him out, he'd surely be dead by now.
Ramona is feeling slightly better and spends her days in a circle bed on the table in my study, where the southern sun keeps her warm. She's wheezy too, but not as dramatically so.
Until these two, my foster kitties have been reasonably easy keepers -- no sickness, no injuries, no FIV-positiveness. Now I've converted my two spare rooms into sick rooms, where these two kitties wait to feel better. I hope we find them great forever homes. After all this, they surely deserve them.
Despite feeling sick, he's starting to arch his back up when I pet him. Until yesterday, he just sat there stoically. This poor guy has been through so much -- dragging an injured leg through the sleet on Baltimore Avenue, living under the foundation of a building, nursing this infection. I comfort myself by thinking that if I hadn't pulled him out, he'd surely be dead by now.
Ramona is feeling slightly better and spends her days in a circle bed on the table in my study, where the southern sun keeps her warm. She's wheezy too, but not as dramatically so.
Until these two, my foster kitties have been reasonably easy keepers -- no sickness, no injuries, no FIV-positiveness. Now I've converted my two spare rooms into sick rooms, where these two kitties wait to feel better. I hope we find them great forever homes. After all this, they surely deserve them.