That's simply awful. I hope that your efforts to be satisfied are
fruitful.
Goodnight, sweet Pookie.......
=^..^= Terri, Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, Travis, Dori and
6 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth, Alec & Salome'
=^..^=
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:14
AM
Subject: Pookie has gone. Horribly
mishandled by clinic
Belinda,
Can you please add my darling negative foster kitty
Pookie to the CLS.
Pookie was euthanized on Monday March 27 (read on for
the way this was mishandled by the clinic, which will haunt me for the rest of
my life).
Pookie was 16 or 17 and had chronic renal failure. He
had also been deaf all his life--he was white with blue eyes, and apparently
white cats with blue eyes are often deaf. I took him to the animal hospital
associated with the shelter on Monday morning as his breathing seemed labored
and he didn't seem to want to eat (he ate from my fingers in the end) or
drink. I fully expected to take him home again.
A terrible thing happened at the clinic. Even though
I remained in the waiting area of the clinic and had even told the intake
receptionist when she asked if it was a drop-off that I was not
going anywhere, the vet euthanized Pookie without telling me. He
apparently had tumors and fluid on the lungs. (Obviously I never
saw the X-rays either.)
I don't have to explain to anyone on this list how that
felt. That I wasn't there to hold and comfort him in his ultimate time of
need--even though I was just feet away--will haunt me forever.
I wrote a
strong letter to the clinic owners the next day, copying the shelter CEO
(PAWS), and wrote a second letter today in response to theirs, which raises
more questions than it answers.
Pookie was a wonderful little guy, bearing his illness
and his subQs with fortitude and dignity. He had had a hard life. His
guardian, a domestic violence victim, had fled their home last
summer with Pookie. She and Pookie lived in a car for some time; it was
so hot that she was buying ice bags to keep them both cool. She found her way
to a women's shelter, but as they wouldn't take pets, he was transferred to
Paws. An observant volunteer noticed he was withdrawn and pushed the shelter
director to get him fostered with me (apparently it wasn't
straightforward--lot of bad feeling between the volunteer and the director). I
am so glad that she did that. Pookie was a joy to have around. I was very
concerend about my cats bullying him--he was skin and bone and must have
weighed about 5 or 6 lb--but he soon ruled the roost in our house using brain,
since he no longer had the benefit of brawn, and had even young thug Tiger
whipped into shape within days.
The last night he soent here, Sunday, he slept, for the
first time, curled around my head, with his little paws gripping my
hair. He also had this cute little habit of licking my hands and arms.
Although I had the privilege of sharing my home with Pookie for only 5 months
(apart from a short break when he went back to his original guardian--it
didn't work out) he was the most physically affectionate and loving of all my
cats. I loved the little fellow dearly and miss him very much. For such a
little fellow he truly has left a huge gap.
Kerry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:11 AM
Subject: Important
>
Hi All,
> Not sure if I've written to this group yet or not, the
days are all
> blurring together. My hard drive on my computer
died last week and I
> lost all of my emails and a few other
things. I don't know who had
> written to add a furchild to the
list (I had forgotten my own password
> and it took my 2 days to figure
it out and be able to check my email again).
>
> I need anyone
with a furchild that passed last week and this week to
> resend it so I
can add them to the service, please send dates and if
> they were FeLV
positive or not thanks. That's 5 things in a row that
> have gone
wrong since the year started, though it was suppose to come in
>
3's??!!
>
> I will try and check my email atleast once a day
after I get home from
> the hospital, if anything is urgent please mark
it as such so I will
> give it attention first. Ok, time to feed
Bailey and get to bed, will
> get the service tomorrow after I get he
furkids to add. Take care all.
>
> --
>
Belinda
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