Post your "sick to healthy" pics here!

[rg_girlca]

What bittersweet stories. To see the kitties so sickly just breaks your heart, but to see them all happy and healthy just melts your heart. I love reading happy endings.

Here's my little Poppy at about 7 weeks old when I rescued him out of the back laneway. He was nothing but skin and bones weighing 1 pound. He was so infested with fleas that you could literally see them crawling on him and he was so anemic from them. He also had a URI.
Some pictures of him after a few flea baths.



Here he is today at 1 1/2 years old all happy and healthy.

[Laura's Babies]

Where is catfamily.....? We need Birdies story and pictures here? That was also an amazing story and heartbreaking to beauty pictures.

[kimlovescats]

Well, my girl Tabitha is definitely a survivor!
Her mommy was hit by a car when she and her siblings were only about a week old. She was covered in fleas, malnourished and had a bad case of coccidia! She was the only survivor of her tiny litter. It was touch and go every hour of every day with Tabitha. Her Daddy and I had to syringe feed her baby KMR around the clock and were scared to death that she wasn't going to make it. God willing, she did!

Here is Tabitha "before"




and here is Tabitha "today" .... still much smaller than other kitties her age, and still struggles with recurring eye infections, but doing great! Since she has been spayed, Miss Tabitha has a belly on her as well, though this picture is prior to that! I'll have to take a recent one of her and post it in a different thread!

[Kirsten]

It's so heartwarming to look at these pictures!!

All these kitties would never have had a chance without you all - thank you for caring for them. It's wonderful to see their "happy & healthy"-pics now!

Kirsten

[Laura's Babies]

Kim, look at wee Tabitha and the beauty she is now! That is one of PT's amazing stories that grabbed my heart and Tabitha STILL has my heart!! I prayed and prayed for that little tyke even though I had the peaceful feeling that she would survive and be alright.

[rosethecopycat]

A very sick Malfi, with a broken leg, four infected paws and an auto-immune disease called Pemphigus Foliacious. He was on 6 pills a day. He lived in a cat sack for 5+ weeks, instead of the giant cone, because at least he could comfortably put his head down and rest.



At Thanksgiving 2004 he had fluid accumulating in his lungs, they tapped his chest, and he got better from that day on.

This is from just after that time, feeling better. Although his leg is still wrapped, he can go use the potty now.


Now he can enjoy the toys from Gary (catmandu)





Loves to sleep with his Daddy



Christmas 2005


Malfi still needs a lot of care, compared to the regular cat. He gets 3 meals a day en suite. He loves to scratch on the sand textured walls, and loves to get under the covers.
Malfi is our miracle boy, just like sweet Tabitha and Birdie.

We love them all!



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Attachment shows Malfi's broken, infected leg, with tape stuck to it.

[QueenScoopalot]

I missed this thread! I was just looking up Birdie threads from day one to now, and saw this! He's actually one of quite a few rescued and recovered to health and a happy forever home! For those who don't know Birdie (adopted by Catfamily Carla) here's the link w/ pics of the day he was rescued.
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...highlight=tyke
I was doubting he'd even make it through the weekend he was sooooo anemic. Hardly any red blood cells left from blood loss & fleas.
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...highlight=tyke
His tongue was not functional at all due to a severe bite to his head and throat, so I had to syringe feed him which was very messy as you can see! He was much too weak to bathe properly at first.
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...ghlight=Birdie
Slowly improving!
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...ghlight=Birdie
Fat, healthy and pink Birdie now! Thank you Carla & Mike for adopting this special boy...along with many others that I rescued.