Yesterday was a sad day.... I had my beautiful, sweet calico kitten, Maggie, euthanized. She was only 9 months old. Her sister, Molly, was euthanized last month, and they are buried side by side in the woods next to our house. I took in this litter of 4 FelV kittens in July knowing they'd probably all die, and consequently break my heart, but I had room in my FelV sanctuary so I wanted to give them a chance, and they had 9 happy months living in the upstairs of my large rescue building in town.
I watched them running thru their rooms, scooting thru the tunnels, climbing up the cat posts, and walking across the wall walks which were built just for them, and they were happy kittens. Their three rooms upstairs were all made into a cat play ground and also had second hand furniture below the walk ways where I could sit and cuddle them or they could sleep. They had a good life, and longer than they'd have had if I hadn't taken them in from the person who was going to have them PTS because of the FelV virus. For 8 months they seemed to be in perfect health, and I actually believed they'd be fine, but then Molly, who was also a calico, got sick. Maggie still seemed fine but a bit more quiet, but within a week or so she went downhill fast. Two of the precious kittens from this litter are still with us, and so far they seem in good health, but for how long? No doubt I'll be in tears again when this horrible virus over takes them. Lorrie _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
