Hit Close to Home

Last Wednesday morning, just as I was getting ready for my in-office shift, Maxx found a stray cat in our yard that was desperately in need of medical attention.  It had dragged itself across the lawn to lie against the house, when he went out there it managed to pull itself around to face him and that was it, no energy left to do anything else, poor thing was ice cold and absolutely drenched.

We dashed out with a couple of towels to get it a bit dried off, slid it carefully onto one and lifted it into the carrier, then sped off with it to the vet.  Poor little guy did warm up eventually, but was paralyzed in the back end and had really poor blood results showing that while he hadn't been in an accident, something serious was going on, likely some sort of toxin.

At lunch that day I rushed out and picked up some more toner for our printer, then we printed off a bunch of flyers for the poor found kitty with the vet's phone number, and Maxx was able to get out and about and hand them out at some local businesses and pet stores/vet offices in town.  Thursday morning during his running around he stopped in to visit the poor kitty, and while it was still not able to do anything other than keep itself warm at that point, when he started to pet it, it began to purr and to knead with its front paws.  I handed out a bunch of flyers that lunch in our local neighborhood, and then on Friday I checked in with the vet at the start of my lunch ... a lady had contacted them and was going in later in the day to see if it was her cat.

They called me later to say she'd identified the cat as being hers and was headed to the SPCA to talk to them about it (by Saturday morning the cat would have been turned over to the SPCA), and that's the last I've heard.  The vet was saying that likely they would have to put the poor little guy down, as he wasn't improving at all, and the blood work said that he was having some organ failure going on ... so my heart breaks that we didn't manage to save him, but I am so glad that his Mum found out where he was, so at least she would have closure.

Still makes me want to tear up and just bawl my eyes out.