Temptation, temptation!

**Karen** · 06-30-2011, 03:59 PM

I wonder if he's a CH kitty, and has always been a bit wobbly, that would account for not only the wobble, but the tendency to get matts because he couldn't groom himself properly. Anyway, he is gorgeous, let us know how it goes!

**Queen of Poop** · 06-30-2011, 04:17 PM

Oh, I think there's going to be a new addition to the pet talk family!!!

**kuhio98** · 06-30-2011, 05:03 PM

Awwww...... Sweet Smokey, you might not know it yet, but your life is going to get a lot better real soon. Your last years will be with love and dignity.

**Freedom** · 06-30-2011, 05:13 PM

I too was thinking CH as a possibility.

A cat who doesn't use the litter box, or can't, does need a special home.

**phesina** · 06-30-2011, 06:08 PM

Oh, please..... !!!!!!

Lord, please bring this kitty home here!

**Lizzie** · 07-01-2011, 11:39 AM

He doesn't have CH, and it might be better if he did. I have a cat with CH; Mother Nature gave her the condition which she lives with very well. Some human abused this cat through extreme neglect. They didn't bind his hind legs together with duct tape, it's true, but they allowed his coat to become so totally matted that his back legs were welded together as one. The muscles in his back legs have atrophied from lack of use and we don't know how much use he will get back after being unable to use them for a long time. I'll be talking to my vet about massage, stretching exercises, hydrotherapy, etc.

He does have some general neurological damage also, whether due to a medical condition, trauma or neglect they can't tell. It causes him to jerk one of front legs out occasionally and makes it hard for him to chew. I'm sure there is more but I had only one evening to observe him.

In spite of all this neglect and the physical problems he faces constantly, he is extremely sweet natured and very positive. He does enjoy attention but after some fuss he's off to explore. He's truly one of those lemons=delicious lemonade souls. No wonder they kept hanging on to him.

I could hardly walk away from a cat like that could I? Could you? I'd meant to visit and discuss, and I did at first, even asking if another rescue could put him out for adoption (it had been tried) or why one of them couldn't take him. I visited, talked and thought for about 30 minutes and when I asked for the paperwork and commented my vet would still be open if they wanted a reference, they simply got out a little receipt book to write my name and phone number and said he was mine, no charge. I was shocked. I didn't have a carrier and they didn't have any to purchase so we put him on the back seat of my car until I could get to a pet store. But he just lay there perfectly at ease so I drove home like that.

He's extremely thin and you can see every vertebrae. I was surprised because he's been in care for 3 months but I think I know what must have happened. He loves wet food and stormed through 2 cans of Fancy Feast last night and 2 more this morning. I think while he was in care he was fed mostly dry food because he doesn't poop inside a litter box. Since he finds dry food hard to chew, he wasn't really eating enough although he did gain 8 ounces over 3 months.

He won't be called Smokey for long but I have to find the right name for a cat who has coped with so many bad things happening to him and still has a very positive and energetic outlook.

**krazyaboutkatz** · 07-01-2011, 11:47 AM

Thank you for being able to adopt Smokey.

He sounds like a real sweetheart and I'm sure that he'll thrive in your care.

I'm sure you'll come up with a wonderful new name for him. Good luck.

**Karen** · 07-01-2011, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by Lizzie

He won't be called Smokey for long but I have to find the right name for a cat who has coped with so many bad things happening to him and still has a very positive and energetic outlook.

Maybe Christy - after Christy Brown, the man whose life became the movie My Left Foot?

**cassiesmom** · 07-01-2011, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Karen

I wonder if he's a CH kitty, and has always been a bit wobbly, that would account for not only the wobble, but the tendency to get mats because he couldn't groom himself properly. Anyway, he is gorgeous, let us know how it goes!

That is what I was thinking too... maybe he's a CH kitty. He is so beautiful! Hi, Smokey!

**Randi** · 07-01-2011, 03:03 PM

Lizzie, thank you so much for giving this special boy a chance. In spite of his issues, he sounds like a real sweetie and I'm sure he'll thrive in your care!

Kisses and purrs to Smokey and hugs to you... from Fister and me.

**Catty1** · 07-01-2011, 03:03 PM

Welcome home, sweetheart!

**phesina** · 07-01-2011, 06:49 PM

Kisses and purrs and God bless to you and Smokey both!

**Medusa** · 07-01-2011, 07:18 PM

Oh, a meezer! No wonder he's such a luvvie! He and my Coco would get along great! He's so lucky to have you for his cat mom. Can't wait to hear all the positive updates.

**catmandu** · 07-02-2011, 09:35 AM

We are so honored to know someone who will take in a Cat that most people would ignore and put down.

I had an 18 ish Stray Smokey, and he was such a great Old Cat, and despite being mostly blind and deaf, he was a Great Cat who lived for over five years.

I trust that you can help your Smokey get better and give that poor Dear Old Cat a good home where he will know love, probably for the forst time in his life,
Good Bless You for helping the helpless.