Welcome Suezo!
By naytally, shot with COOLPIX S550 at 2009-06-06
Her name is Suezo, and she's a-friggen-dorable.
My dad's house is swarming with new litters of kittens. I thought we got all the females fixed but I guess 3 of them slipped through the radar last year. Bah! Well, of the two litters we've been able to see, all of them are healthy and fine. I catch them and run them down with flea combs.
We just happened to see this one for the first time on Wednesday. She was hanging out on the porch with her mother, a cat we'd never seen before, trying to nom on a piece of pizza my mom through out there for the dogs to eat. I looked at her and noticed her eye was all nasty so I went outside to catch her and just before she could run under the house I grabbed her. She was not resistant at all, she was actually rather sweet, she was just very scared, and rightfully so! we checked her over and she had a tick on her lip, which I grabbed off with a pair of tweezers. We didn't really realize at that point just how bad off she was, and we were getting ready to leave so we put her in the cage in the back room and we went to the store to grab some formula for her and went home.
When we came back on Thursday morning, she was a bit worse off than she was. We looked her over and found 5 more ticks on her, including two on her bum :-/, and noticed she had a hole in her neck, which we had seen some wetness there the day before, but we didn't realize how bad it was... It goes up about one centimeter into her jaw along with being a dime sized hole. So, along with her eye being infected her neck is, too.
We brought her home with us Thursday night so we could keep an eye on her. We don't trust my parents to do anything when it comes to taking care of sick/injured animals. Friday she was doing better, but I noticed a bit of swelling on her side. I think she has a bruised or broken rib under her arm... *sigh* Poor thing, buts she's got remarkable spunk for such a sickly kitty!
We think my dad's dog got a hold of her. He's been known to give kitties on the farm a bit of a run for their money, actually costing two of them their lives. My guess is he threw her around a bit and she was able to reach the safety of underneath the house. :( She's lucky she survived!
As far as treating her goes, we didn't have any $$ to take her to a vet last week but we're taking her in on Monday. They'll probably want to sew up the hole on her neck and give us oral antibiotics. For now, though, we've been doing neosporin + pain relief ointment on her wounds along with eye drops/neosporin in her eye. She's doing much better now and I think she'll be at least 90% by the end of next week. She's a little purring machine and she loves us.