Glenda,
I am so terribly sorry about Boomie. I can't even imagine losing 2 so
close together. You're in my thoughts and prayers. You did everything
you could.
tonya
--- Glenda Gardam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, little Boomer (Boomie) lost her battle and I had the Vet who
> had
> been treating her (and the one who I finally was able to get
> interferon
> ordered from - unfortunately it was too late for Boomer) come to my
> house to assist her journey to a better place. She was between 11
> months - 13 months old.. so young, with sable gray fur, bright little
> yellow eyes, a tiny little head that never quite matched her body and
> never weighed more than 6.5 lbs. When she meowed, which wasn't often,
> although she would purr up a storm to compensate, only the sides of
> her
> mouth would lift up and barely a tinge of her little pink tongue
> would
> show, it was so cute. Her tail was her pride - the full plumed tail,
> that never quite looked clean (hygiene was not a priority of hers, so
> one of my other cats would groom her because she just never ever
> thought
> it was necessary!!!) She had tiny little feet and walked as a little
> lady should, very daintily. When I brought her to live with me, one
> of
> my other FeLV cats, Francisco, would try to boss her around by
> pretending to lunge at her and then leaping over top of her. She
> thought
> this quite the fun game, so she would chase him right afterwards,
> obviously to the confusion of Francisco!!! They got along well after
> that and towards the end of his life in April, she would lay her head
> on
> him when he was starting to succumb to the anemia..... it was very
> touching for me to see this action as well as others and makes me a
> firm
> believer that they can sense when another cat is nearing its end on
> earth.
>
> I originally wrote to the list April 26th about about Boomie's
> mystery
> inflammation that showed on blood tests and a fever that we were
> never
> able to get down below 103.8.... I had started to think maybe Boomie
> had
> the dry form of FIP as a couple of the cats rescued from the same
> house
> seemed to succumb to it (we don't know because no necropsies were
> done)
> and I was to bring her back for another blood test on Monday to see
> if
> anything showed up to point towards that. Unfortunately because of
> stress she came down with the calici virus and it hit her like a
> brick.
> On the Saturday and Sunday she had actually started to get more
> energy
> and appetite and even was walking around with her tail up (usually a
> good sign for her) and I thought with her being on the interferon
> (only
> one round) that we had beat whatever was happening with her because
> the
> antibiotics weren't helping (Flagyl, Orbax, Baytril, even a couple of
> minute doses of baby aspirin) Her bowels were improving greatly
> etc....
> Well, on Monday morning when I went upstairs to see her my heart sank
> because she looked like a different cat from the night before.....
> her
> left eye was almost closed with infection, she was having difficulty
> swallowing and her nostrils were full of green mucous...I looked at
> her
> and started to cry because I felt she had no chance to get over this
> seeing's as we didn't know what we were battling with the
> inflammation,
> and I had basically decided to see how she did for the morning -
> steamed
> her with a vaporizer, kept her nostrils clear with cotton balls and a
> saline mix. Her brother Valcor, however, I think, knew she wasn't
> going
> to make it because at one point she was laying on a windowsill on her
> side and although she was breathing OK, her eyes never blinked for
> long
> periods of time. Valcor went up to her and tried to lift her head
> with
> his head and she didn't respond, then he kind of bit (not hard) her
> neck
> to try to lift her up, all the while making really strange mewing
> sounds. This is not something he would normally do and it really
> scared
> me because I thought she was dying right then and there. She wasn't,
> but
> I made the very difficult decision to let her go before she just got
> worse. By afternoon (I had already made arrangements with the Vet to
> come to my home to help her pass on) she had begun to cough body
> racking
> coughs and felt I was doing the kindest thing..... not an easy
> decision.
> To make an already long story a bit shorter, my Vet did an in house
> autopsy (at no cost) to see if we could find some answers because he
> was
> as frustrated as I was in not being able to determine what was going
> on... he called me the next morning (yesterday) and said I had made
> the
> right decision and that her liver and her spleen were both abscessed
> and
> very infected........ at least she is at peace now.........
>
> Glenda
> and silhouettes of Francisco and Boomie
> as well as Fiver, Aslan, Fredo, Valcor and Caramilk
>
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