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naamahdarling:starrbear:naamahdarling:naamahdarling:naamahdarling:COME VISIT FANCY’S FUNDRAISER!Hello everyone! This is Fancy. She is a ~12-13-week-old dilute tortoiseshell kitten my girlfriend found on the street while delivering pizza. Her long coat makes it hard to see how thin she is, but she is very thin. Her bones are so prominent that we have to cuddle her wrapped in a towel or she can’t get comfortable. (Yes, that is exactly as heartbreaking as it sounds.)In addition to being dangerously underweight, she is suffering from an abscessed bite wound and some sort of problem with her tail, as well as a heavy parasite load that is giving her runny poop issues and sapping her energy. She is too small to even have the shots given to babies half her age.Despite all this, Fancy is heart-meltingly sweet. She loves people. She talks a lot and even vocalizes softly while purring herself to sleep. She is alert but she tires easily because she has no energy reserves and right now she basically only sleeps, eats, poops, sleeps, cuddles, talks about everything she does, eats some more, and sleeps.She looks rough now but with some TLC she will be a beautiful cat with a nice, low-maintenance medium-length silky coat and vibrant lemon-lime eyes. We want to find her a forever home, but we can’t do that until she is healthy enough!We took her to the vet on Monday, July 30 and she has been wormed, treated for earmites, and tested clean for FeLV and heartworms, and her abscess has been cleaned out, which is all good, but she has some challenges. The vet says that at 3.6 lbs. she is ½ to ¾ of a pound underweight, which is a big difference when you are as small as she is. Imagine being 30 lbs. underweight. That’s scary. This is the biggest hurdle right now. The odds are absolutely in her favor, this is a problem we can fix, but she is still severely malnourished and that presents a very real risk.Also her tail doesn’t work so great. She can only move the first inch or so closest to her behind, and sometimes it’s hard to get it out of the way when she uses the litter box. If it doesn’t improve as she gets stronger the vet wants to take X-rays to see what’s causing it and what needs to be done.She has a checkup in 10 days but right now we cannot afford to take her to it, let alone pay for any more unexpected urgent treatment, because today’s vet appointment blew through everything we had saved back.Will you please help us give her a second chance by visiting her fundraiser and sharing this post? Fancy is a brave and strong young lady who wants to be healthy! She wants to go home with someone who will make her their special little girl forever!I’ve set a goal of $700 to cover what we had to pay today for testing, wound treatment, and medication, and the things we had to get to take care of her (piddle pad crate liners, her own toys, some special food to get her weight up, baby wipes to clean up her bottom, all that sort of thing) plus some extra for her next checkup, her shots, and some extra for imaging or in case something unexpected comes up (most likely another abscess, a respiratory infection, or gastritis). We have other cats, one of whom has kidney disease and needs specialized food that costs kind of a lot, so this is putting a big strain on us financially.She deserves so much better. Please help us make her second chance as great as it can be.Thank you so much.UPDATE!Keep spreading the link! We reached our first goal and I’m bumping it up to cover future expenses and surgeries. She also needs to go in to see the vet sooner than I thought because she’s having a little trouble with the abscess.I will update later tonight with a link to a wishlist for supplies that would help us take the very best care of her we possibly can. She had nothing, she didn’t even have a name. Now she has a name, a blanket, and many, many people on the internet who care about her and want to help her get better and spoil her. You are all rock stars, you’re amazing.We can now cover imaging for her tail and begin covering treatment that I strongly suspect will wind up being an amputation. She has no feeling in the tip at all, and if she can’t use it for balance or communication and can’t move it out of the way of things like feet, doors, other cats, and so on, it will need to come off as it will only pose a risk. I hope that won’t be necessary.Also, it’s too early to do it now, she’s too weak, but someday she will be a grown-up girl and will need to be spayed. We’d also like to microchip her. We want to make her as safe and as strong and as healthy as she can be.Thank you so, so much. Look at this sweet little face. Look at those bright little eyes. That’s what a survivor looks like. She’s a little fighter. Thank you for giving her a chance. We’re gonna make it a real, real good one.And WOW, can you BELIEVE those EARS?Day 3 Fancy update!We hit our second goal! We are moving forward with diagnostics to find out whether she can keep the tail or not, so we can get a quote for what it would cost to help her either way, and adjust the goal again if we need to.Fancy’s energy is definitely up! She is bathing herself very well, she sharpened her claws a little today, she’s been stretching and walking around, and is feeling up to exploring a little. She even did her first naughty - she bothered a (nontoxic, harmless) houseplant we thought was out of her reach. Not so! She had the energy to make a big-girl jump to get to it! Then, tuckered out, she fell asleep on Auntie Bear.We are SO proud of her!Unfortunately, she has also licked her cleaned-out abscess raw (GROSS, FANCY!) so she’s going back to the vet today to get that addressed somehow, and while she is there we’re going to ask the vet to go ahead and do the imaging for her tail so that he will have several days to look at the films and consult with a radiologist before her checkup next Thursday.This is only possible because of you! She is getting x-rays and going to the vet to get cleaned up again because of you! You made this possible! All you fine people who donated and reblogged and sent kind words and kind thoughts!Thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts.#nofilterJust in case you need your heart melted, this was Fancy’s very first box! Look how excited she is!She’s playingShe’s PLAYING and I am trying so hard not to cryDay 7 and Fancy says THANK YOU to the people who sent the lovely – and helpful! – gifts that will keep her fed, warm, and clean for a good long time to come.Do y’all see how she’s already filling out in the face and how she’s grown just a little bit? We can sure tell.Just imagine those big baby paws mashin’ and mashin’ and the biggest rattlin’ purr a tiny cat can produce.This blanket is VERY soft and about twice as thick as the pink one we got her. She LOVES it. Very comfy for cradling sore hips and poke-y little heels and elbows, and great for protecting US from the tiny claws on her massive mashers.So let this picture of a delighted kitten with a blankie stand in for all the other great stuff you sent her that WE love but SHE doesn’t care about.We love the cleaning supplies and food y’all bought off her wishlist. She still has some messy poop issues what with the antibiotics and her parasite infestation and suddenly having very healthy but rich food to chow down on. The vet assures us it will pass and in my experience he’s right, the runny poo will disappear once she’s finished her meds, but until it does it’s very nice to have things like washcloths and towels and Clorox wipes and trash bags, because WOW she sure does make some awful smells.The wound and ear wipes are VERY appreciated, although not by her, like, at all.None of that is romantic, but we sure are grateful! Thank you so, so much.Her next appointment is Thursday, and we can’t wait to show the vet how much she has improved. -- source link
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