Scary morning

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Today's been pretty nuts. We woke up at like 8:45, a couple of minutes later, my husband came in here freaking out. One of our kitties, Danzig, was in a pretty bad shape, his left eye was swollen shut. I'm so bad in emergency situations, I generally just freak out. I tried to stay calm this time and started getting ready while he called our vet. Poor baby has a nasty eye infection and a scratch across his cornea, we're not sure how it happened, but it's likely that he did that one himself, his eye seems to be real itchy and well both of our other kitties are front declawed.

I freaked when I first looked at his eye, I pulled his eyelid back a bit and it looked deflated, by the time we got to the vet, it looked a little better. They put some dye in his eye so that they could get a better look at the scratch. The vet sent us home with antibiotics, for the infection, eye drops and some eye ointment, which he really hates.

We lost one of our babies back in march, he passed away in my husband's arms, so whenever something's wrong with one of them, we don't take any chances, we just rush them to the vet.

[Friday The 13th]

Awww! I'm very sorry to hear that... I hope he is okay/gets better!

[demented_are_go]

He really hates having ointment put in his eye. Poor baby kept rubbing it afterwards, I'm such a sucker for cats. We have 3 of them. One little orange tabby named Danzig, a very chubby lynx point siamese / tabby mix named Unix and a seal point siamese named Sammy (we didn't pick his name, he was my husband's cousin's grandma's cat, she was put in a home and poor baby was going to end up at the pound)

I'm about to wake up the husband to get some help putting drops in his eyes. Oh yeah, here he is in all his glory, when he's not sick or hurt.

[Friday The 13th]

Awww... I love cats too! I had 2 cats not to long ago, had to give them away to my moms bf. One was A Siamese Tabby Mix named Church, the other one was a Persian/Himalayan named Casper, he had blue eyes and white hair.

[demented_are_go]

The one on the right is Unix, she's a lynx point siamese / tabby mix. Hubby calls her butterball. She's so round that if she gets any more round, her front paws won't touch the ground when she sits. We adopted her from a shelter about a year and a half ago. Our big boy at the time seemed completely bored alone, so we decided to get him a little sister.



And this is Sammy, a constant source of worry for me. He's 6 years old and he's a pure bred seal point siamese. He came to us a little over a month ago. One night we got a call from my husband's cousin, my husband's uncle's mom had to be placed in a home, she had a dog and a cat, they'd found a home for the dog but didn't know what to do with the cat. Her cat is FIV/feline leukemia positive, so she can't have another kitty in the house. My husband's uncle has a dog and the dog hated the cat, their son's wife is very allergic to cats. They were going to take him to the humane law enforcement the next day.

When we first took him home, he was terrified. He hid under a bed in the guest room for a week. He wouldn't eat or drink and well the few times I tried to touch him, I have the scars to show. It took us over 3 weeks to get him to even warm up to us a little, now he's extremely attached to me. He's still very shy around humans, if you walk up to him, he'll run, he has to come to you on his own terms. He's lost a lot of hair on his bum, my husband's cousin says he did lose a couple of patches of hair in the past, it seems he's got a nervous licking habit, he'll rip the hair off of himself. I can't even find hair where he sleeps, so he must be eating it. The dog was her favorite, so he never really got much attention, he's starting to learn that humans are good, he still won't eat treats, he doesn't understand what they are. I've always wanted a pure bred siamese, when we got that call, it just felt right. I couldn't let him go to that shelter, they do horrible things to animals, I've read a lot about it and it's got a very bad reputation. They've been called out for things like heart stick euthanasia (where they give the animal a shot directly into the heart to put them down, a lot of the time, they'll miss and perforate a lung) and they've also been accused of putting animals in garbage bags without first checking if they were really dead. They won't take volunteers, which is never a good sign either.

Wow, I didn't realize just how much I ended up typing here. I'm such a sucker for our babies, I'm hoping we won't have any major health problems with them in the near future. We lost one of our babies back in march, he had a heart murmur, so it was like a ticking time bomb, one night he started feeling ill, less than 10 minutes later he had passed away in my husband's arms, it was horrible.

[Bojangles]

I hope everything works out okay. It sucks trying to medicate animals.

[Friday The 13th]

awww lovely kitties!

[demented_are_go]

Thanks, they're our world in a way. Medicating him has gotten much better, he doesn't mind it as much now that his eye has gotten quite a bit better. Now if Sammy's hair could grow back faster, I could stop worrying.

It's amazing what an important part of your life an animal can become. My mother in law calls them her grand-kitties.

[Friday The 13th]

Awww But yea Animals are family!