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phesina
07-11-2011, 11:10 PM
HERE IS YOUR NEW CEREBELLAR HYPOPLAYSIA KITTY!!!!! EMAIL Libby Agosti [email protected] !!!!! This Kitty is in Portland Oregon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS URGENT AND NEEDS A HOME BY MID AUGUST OR WILL BE PTS!!!!!

Peanut is a 3-year-old Bengal mix in Portland, OR about to lose the only home he's known. His first six months were in a cage until a 92-year-old foster was willing to let him live in her house. The foster died November 2010, and Peanut's elderly cat roommate only one week later. Since then he has remained in the house with visits from family and an occasional housesitter, quite lonely most of the time. The house must be sold, and no family member can adopt him because they all have several fosters (and one, a frightening herding dog). They would be willing to fly him out of state to a responsible, loving home. His current state is too lonely, and he will have to be put down when the house is marketed by mid-August.
Peanut is healthy, playful, and terribly affectionate. He scrambles everywher and doesn't realize that he's handicapped. He hops into chairs or up a cat tree and can clear a 3-foot gate. He adores toys. He adores humans. He adores other animals (except large explosive dogs) and seeks roommate again. He is as soft as mink and quiet as a mouse (rare, tiny "meow"). But his rear-end handicap causes him to sometmes miss his cat box. He would come with either lightweight, impermeable floor blankets or several outdoor "potty mats" (the artificial grass type) to make his space more manageable. He must be indoors because he can't defend himself or escape very effectively.
Peanut is otherwise very healthy, is neutered, microchipped, and current on all vaccinations. PLEASE HELP to keep this little guy alive, and many thanks for your thoughts!
Libby Agosti
[email protected] libby.agosti(AT)yahoo.com

Lizzie
07-12-2011, 12:01 PM
I'll write and make an offer to take him if, and only if, ALL other options have been tried and failed. I'm well set up for taking care of a CH cat since I have one of my own, and I have several "litter" areas because I have three handicapped cats who need convenient pee places. However, I have enough cats of my own and I want to continue fostering sick cats for the sanctuary so I'll take this guy, if approved, only if his life is on the line.

Thank you for letting us know about him. Hopefully the word has gone out to rescues and someone else will be able to take him.

phesina
07-12-2011, 02:25 PM
Oh, thank you so very much, Lizzie!

Please do write to Libby and let her know about this.. And with luck he will find another home so you can keep your options open..

Thanks again.

Love from Pat and cats :love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love:

Lizzie
07-12-2011, 02:57 PM
I wrote to Libby and she wrote back within the hour both with an email thanking me and saying how relieved they were to get an offer and with the following posting sent to another rescue which shows their desperation - an outside kennel was considered!

"We want you to know that we have tried for months now to network among our acquaintances to place this little guy. My sister supports (a LOT) the Columbia Humane Society in St. Helens, OR, which is semi-rural and out of reach of the financial support that the Oregon Humane Society, for example, commands in the Portland metro area. That's where she found Peanut. None of the shelter volunteers can take him. Oregon Foster Cat Association's sanctuary is full. Same with OHS, I believe. We've contacted several vet clinics to ask them to consider him a shelter cat, but the "cat box aim" problem is the barrier, I think.

Peanut displays the characteristic CH symptoms... wobbly, tremoring back-end, tremoring stance, lopsided run, etc. He can eat and drink from dishes alright, but often tremors as he does. An internal medicine specialty vet hasn't ruled out neurology as opposed to CH. The cat box issue is the problem. Sometimes he uses it effectively, and always seems to try. But dry bowel movements can be found wrapped up in toweling that he obviously tried to "dig" them in with, and he either sometimes misses the box or "dribbles" w/o knowing it.

If you could consider helping rehome him with us, we'd be so grateful, but don't want to mislead. We would be happy to bring him up to Olympia for a trial fostering sometime in the next few weeks if that's a good time frame. But when we market the house in August (our late mother's house) he will not be able to stay there, and we don't feel an outdoor kennel on the property is safe enough."

So, I think I need to write and just say I'll take him. He's been through enough, the poor little blighter.

I swear I'm not going to even let my eyes wander down to the cat rescue part of PetTalk or cruise Petfinder in my lunch hour or do anything that might introduce me to another handicapped cat that needs rescue!

But, really, what's wrong with a little pee over the side?! I work as a facilities manager to an academic library which sees 10,000-12,000 people enter per day and I can tell you that plenty of women "pee over the side" and men, quite frankly, pee all over.

phesina
07-12-2011, 07:13 PM
Oh, God bless you, Lizzie. Thank you so VERY MUCH!!!!!

And you are already well experienced in dealing with pee over the side.. Excellent!!!

Love to you and to little Peanut. Please tell us all about him when you get him home!

:love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love:
Pat and cats (including 2 CHers)

Lizzie
08-08-2011, 01:01 PM
A brief update for anyone following these rescue threads (always so heartbreaking). I have been in correspondence with the sisters who rescued Peanut from six months of being caged and found him a home in their mother's house. He is more disabled than having CH, he has some paralysis in the hind end which means his bladder doesn't fully empty and he does dribble on occasion. It's likely he will come to me and we are looking at a date later this month when they will drive up to Seattle with Peanut to see if my home will work for him.

phesina
08-08-2011, 01:14 PM
Oh, again, thank you SO VERY MUCH, Lizzie.

Yes, the threads indeed are so heartbreaking, and what a gift of God it seems to me when one of these innocent, helpless babies is rescued!

Please keep us posted. If Peanut does dribble sometimes, you probably want to have some puppy pads on hand! I think Helene (lvpets2002) has some babies like this, and I'm sure she can give you lots of advice and suggestions!

Again, God bless, and loads of love to you and Peanut and all concerned,

:love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love:,
Pat and cats

emily_the_spoiled
08-09-2011, 02:52 PM
Thank you for taking him. Like you I am a soft touch with these CH guys and I currently have two (along with other "disabled" cats). I hope he has found his furever home with you