Advice Needed 1 Stray Cat Losing Weight *UPDATE VET APPT MADE* GOAL REACHED FOR VET

[Catty1]

Melissa - I remember one time you got donations and sent little presents to everyone to thank them. Heavens, girl, save the shipping costs and sell these on eBay - or sell them at a garage sale if you know someone who is having one!

VERY sweet of you, but postage costs money too!

[Anikaca77]

I just e-mailed a bunch of organizations around PA asking for some donations as well and I just got this one e-mail back from one organization:



If the cat is that sick this is cruelty to animals letting him suffer and be sick for so long.
There are many vets that have night hours, weekend hours and there are er's.
I can understand how money can be a factor but I do not understand how she can't find a friend or relative that could take this cat and get him help instead of making him suffer this long and now have to wait another week.
You have asked many people for money, all of us struggle to pay vet bills for our rescues.
We are hours away from where you sister lives yet you wrote to us.
I think you need to get your sister to see that she should be responsible and she needs do the right thing for the cat in HER care.



I know in some way with him losing weight that he's been suffering but he doesn't cry in pain or I would have taken him back home with me and I would have if I didn't have to take the girl he hangs out with as well....and if I lived closer I would of taken him a long time ago but I don't have a ton of money.......I'm so upset that someone thinks I'm being cruel...do you all think I'm being cruel...I've done so much to help cats and take care of them..I'm just so upset right now.

Melissa

[Catty1]

This is just one response out of the many you have sent...it's not the whole picture.

If you really feel like responding, give them your sister's email address and tell them to talk to her - or forward that email you got to your sister.

Can she contribute any money to the vet care? She should - if she is feeding them, then she has taken on some responsibility.

Anyway, look at the big picture - there are way more positives than negatives. The most important thing here is Fatty!

If you do contact rescues, ask if they can take Fatty rather than donate money. Rescues are the ones needing donations, as you know.

If nothing else, take them off your email list. They aren't being cruel - just telling their side of the story.

[jennielynn1970]

I am sending the meds in the hopes that if he does require antibiotics, Melissa won't have to foot the bill for that yet too. I figure Baytril and Clavamox are the two that are given the most frequently, and since I've had some extras, I'd ship those out. Same with eye meds. I'm hoping that once he is well, she can put the Revolution on him.

Poor guy. He looks really skinny.

The person who emailed you may have sounded cruel to you, or rude, but I can understand where they are coming from. Your sister is feeding them, and is basically taking responsibility for their care. With that come the bills. I know she's not expecting this to happen, the cat being sick and all, and we don't plan for it, but it does happen, and when it does we have to make sure we can take care of their health and well being.

Hopefully things will fall into place, and your sister can put some cash toward them as well.

[Anikaca77]

I have just received more donations!! Thank You!! I won't list the peoples names because I haven't asked for permission yet but you know who you are and thank you so much. Fatty will appreciate it even if he has to be stuck with a needle.

With the donations that I just received I'm looking at about ~$62 left not including the vet visit which for $36 (I'm going to try to pay for that depending on how much gas will cost).

Thank you so much for you all who have donated and I'd just like to add that I am going to be trying to find Fatty and Pretty Girl and home together and if any of you would like to adopt them please let me know. Or please cross post about him.

Thank you,
Melissa

[Anikaca77]

Well I spoke with my sister tonight to ask her if she would be able to get Fatty for me in the morning and keep him up in her bathroom till I was able to get to her place and she said she couldn't.

As most of you remember about a year ago I struggled with her not to declaw a cat well actually 2 cats and she's frankly just a witch in a nice word. I love my sister to death but she just doesn't have the compassion that I have for animals.

I'm probably going to head up to her place on Friday and hope the cat is out and about....

I just need more funds since she isn't willing to help...I'm sorry I tried...I'm still hopefully that I can raise the other money that's needed.

Melissa

[Catty1]

Hopefully you can catch the other cat she is feeding...maybe later when Fatty is fixed up.

It's the weekend, so wait til Monday and a couple more people see this thread.

How much more do you need now?

AND - maybe the rescue you thought was cruel SHOULD be given your sister's email address, as well as the pet 'history' she has, especially with refusing to help Fatty get vet help.

How much more do you need now? Keep us posted on that.

[Anikaca77]

Hi,

I'm sure I will be able to get Fatty if I show up early enough and I plan to.

Right now I need about ~$91 (I'm going to try to cover the vet visit but depending on gas it's not looking so well) left in order to take him to the vets. I told my sister that if he needs regular medicine I will have to step up and bring him back to my house and keep him in the bathroom with the Girl cat and they will just have to deal until I can find them a permanent home or until he is better depending on what's wrong with him.

I've also thought about just bringing him back here and taking him to a vets around here but I don't think I'd get any cheaper prices and well if it's something simple that we can just apply flea meds then I could just re-release him and then hopefully find him and his girl that he hangs around with a home. They have to go together though.

Please don't get the wrong idea about my sister, she does care for animals and she takes very good care of the ones she has, I know declawing is wrong trust me I lectured as best as I could but she has run her cats to an emergency vet and spent a lot of money in the vet care of her own. She just feels differently about stray cats I think because they have been there before she moved in and other neighbors feed them both.

Goal right now is to raise $91 before Friday and then I'll be set and Fatty will be going to the vets.

My sister did tell me that the vets will charge me $55 if I do a no-show which is why I can't believe my sister won't help me get him and just keep him in the bathroom but she said he was the one who peed in the guys house who took Fatty and Pretty Girl in for a while and I'm wondering if he's not fixed which I think he is but I could be wrong that maybe he was just spraying in the house and I recall my sister saying that the guy who took the cats in for a bit didn't know who was peeing in the house.

When I was at my sister's last weekend I saw Fatty take a pee and he tried to cover it up with the grass so hopefully he will use a litter box fine if I bring him back to my house and of course I would have to bring Pretty Girl with me as well and I'm hoping that I can just try to work on finding them a home without bringing them back here only because my oldest cat is having stress issues and peeing sometimes throughout my house and bringing in 2 more cats among my 7 already will only just irritate the situation but I'll have to do what I have to do if Fatty needs meds.

Melissa

Hopefully you can catch the other cat she is feeding...maybe later when Fatty is fixed up.

It's the weekend, so wait til Monday and a couple more people see this thread.

How much more do you need now?

AND - maybe the rescue you thought was cruel SHOULD be given your sister's email address, as well as the pet 'history' she has, especially with refusing to help Fatty get vet help.

How much more do you need now? Keep us posted on that.

[jennielynn1970]

Would it really kill your sister to keep him inside for one night?? I'm sorry, but she wants them taken care of, she could at least help out.

Like I said, the meds I sent should be the be the basics for an infection. If, however, he needs something for another kind of affliction, I don't have anything else.

Can your sister keep Fatty in a large carrier with a pee pad in it, so at least he can be confined (since she's worrying about him spraying).

The bottom line is he'd just have to be confined for the night till you got there the next day. He's not going to do that much damage (if he does at all) in that amount of time. Would one of the neighbors that feeds them be willing to shelter him for the night?? One night is not an eternity, and again, if she wants him to be helped, she be a little more humane and helpful in the situation.

[Anikaca77]

Jenn,

Trust me I tried to reason with my sister and she just won't. I know it makes you guys mad because you guys have donated money and she's not willing to help but she doesn't see stray cats like we see them.

She has told me that she thinks he's had a good run and well she just thinks he's getting older and that's with age. She hasn't ever asked me to take him to the vets or get him help. I'm just doing this on my own but I was talking with my husband tonight and we were figuring out financial stuff and well I have 100 left to get myself through till the end of the month since I had to put money aside for Athena's hernia surgery at the end of the month so I'm sad to say that unless I raise enough money to cover his vet visit $36 along side with the $56 still needed, I will have to cancel his appointment for now and return the donations until I can come up with the funds.

I hate to do that but I don't feel I have any other option at this time especially since I will be driving 2 1/2 hours one way and then back home again which will take probably $60-$80 for the gas alone.

Well see what this week brings but if I have to cancel his appointment I have to do so within 24 hours before the appointment to avoid the $55 no show fee.

Melissa

Would it really kill your sister to keep him inside for one night?? I'm sorry, but she wants them taken care of, she could at least help out.

Like I said, the meds I sent should be the be the basics for an infection. If, however, he needs something for another kind of affliction, I don't have anything else.

Can your sister keep Fatty in a large carrier with a pee pad in it, so at least he can be confined (since she's worrying about him spraying).

The bottom line is he'd just have to be confined for the night till you got there the next day. He's not going to do that much damage (if he does at all) in that amount of time. Would one of the neighbors that feeds them be willing to shelter him for the night?? One night is not an eternity, and again, if she wants him to be helped, she be a little more humane and helpful in the situation.

[momtomany]

Melissa,

Hang onto my donation. Hopefully you will have enough donations to cover the rest and can still take him this week, if not next week then. Hang in there.

Julie

[jennielynn1970]

Did you try contacting Furry Feet? I don't know if they have any openings, but she definitely helped out with getting testing and and vetting with our donation.

[Anikaca77]

Jenn,

I will contact them today. I just don't have long distance at home so I can't call from there and I don't have a cell phone so I'll try from work today.

Melissa

Did you try contacting Furry Feet? I don't know if they have any openings, but she definitely helped out with getting testing and and vetting with our donation.

[Anikaca77]

Jenn,

I called Furry Feet at lunch and she returned my phone call this evening.

Unfortunately she has a full house and can't help me out.

Thank you for your suggestion though I appreciate it.

Melissa

Did you try contacting Furry Feet? I don't know if they have any openings, but she definitely helped out with getting testing and and vetting with our donation.

[jennielynn1970]

DARN!!!

I know she has a lot of cats at her house (I was a bit overwhelmed when I visited there).

I was hoping she would have some fosters available and be able to help out with the vetting and stuff.