Barney is an Angel Now.

[Emeraldgreen]

Hi guys, Angela's ferry got here just as I was getting off work and she stopped by on her way home. She had Scrawny (who Angela told me is now Barney ) in the car. He was in a small carrier so I couldn't see him but she said he is absolutely exhausted. She said he fell asleep at the clinic!

'ANGEL-a' is AWESOME! The bill came to 330.84 and she said that she just didn't feel comfortable letting it all be billed to me so she put 250.00 on her own credit card!! She said she wanted to do it and part of the reason the bill was this high is because she brought home 24 cans of Diabetic wet food for him.

I asked her if she was leaving tomorrow and she said "how can I with all this going on?" I was thrilled! I don't know how long she is staying but each 24 hours is a chance to get him into better condition so that my coworker and her guy can take over.

I'm going to see Barney tomorrow after work and will drop off some dry Taste of the Wild for him. I'll try and grab a few pics of him then.

p.s. I think one of the things that didn't help was that Barney didn't have a litterbox. I guess up until a few days ago, he was strictly outdoors but as mentioned earlier Angela has been sneaking him in at night. He didn't have a box to go in so I can sure understand why he peed on his blanket. But I guess it's good that he did because it prompted them to to do the urinalysis which I think is how they found the diabetes?
So I bought him a large disposable turkery roaster today at our local store after work and a bag of litter and gave that to Angela. She said she was just about to do the same thing so she was happy about that.

I'm hoping that the vet will leave the balance on my account so some donations can go towards it or they may charge my card for the remainder and might reverse a portion of it. Anyway, it will all work out. I'm just so grateful that so many people care about this little guy who seemed to fall through the cracks for who knows how many years. I pray that we can keep him going for some months, maybe a year, maybe some years? so that he can know what love feels like, a warm bed and a family. He will obviously be my coworkers responsibility once we can get him on the mend but he just needed this headstart.
Thank you guys for any help. I completely understand that it's a hard time right now so if you're not able to, then prayers are a wonderful contribution.
Once again, I'm so thankful for PT, for everything. It is a special place.

p.s. Moesha, the vet didn't mention to me how old she thought he was, I should have asked but she was giving me so much information and I had customers standing there waiting for me to help them at work. lol I was writing down all the stuff Robin, the vet was telling me. When I first got on the phone with Robin, I said "have you ever seen such a sad looking case??" and she said "he really is in rough shape, poor guy". We didn't talk about age but she referred to him as a senior.

p.p.s. I put the cat under the name Scrawny when I called them today but then Angela was telling them on the way out that his name is Barney but when she was on the ferry, she looked at the invoice and they put Bailey. Yikes. Anyway, if anyone calls there, they should know who Scrawny is. I will call them and have them change it from Bailey to Barney. lol

p.s. I had the website for the clinic posted here but I realized I didn't have their permission and have sinced removed it.