First of all, during my absence from PT, I have had to lose 2 of my kitties. Little Bobo was literally a walking skeleton and my vet could not ever determine why. The final decision was to humanely have him PTS before his major organs began shutting down. Harder still than that, I had to make the same painful decision to have my beloved Dexter PTS as well. His mouth was so severe, and he was in excrutiating pain.We had done a cleaning, tried the steroids and everything my vet could suggest to no avail. We could not watch him suffer in pain any longer. He had lost weight and his beautiful coat was in horrible condition from the infection from his mouth. It was terribly hard to watch him go on that table, as he was one of my first rescues form our high kill shelter.
Here are my newest RB babies ......
Bobo:
Dexter in better days:
These two were PTS on April 3rd. I went from 11 kitties down to 9 in one sad day. As the circle of life would have it, my friend who is up to her ears in kittens (kitten season) sort of pushed this one little boy on me, who looks very much like my Dexter must have when he was a baby. I resisted for a few weeks, then she sent me another e-mail about him. Finally, my daughter Amanda and I decided that in honor of Dexter, we could take this little scrawny guy in. Amanda named him Daxter in honor of our beloved boy. He is extra thin, but we are working on that. We brought him home on June 2nd ... just 2 months after our loss. So, we have not increased our limit, we still are at 10 where we were at 11 before. I am committed to holding at 10 though. It is a comfortable number for both me and the kitties.
Ok, so please welcome baby Daxter. Don't know about you, Lori, but I see a baby Ripley in him!
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I bet he's keeping you on your toes!
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