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Breed
Domestic Shorthair
Color
Gray or Blue
Age
Adult
Sex
Female
Pet ID
SPA OHIO
Hair Length
short
My details
Good with kids
Shots current
Spayed / Neutered
Has special needs
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Here is Sweetie Pie's story...
Sweetie Pie had surgery at Fremont Animal Hospital to remove a cyst in her left hear. She was an outside cat that I came upon when I was petsitting . This family has four inside cats, one of which is diabetic, so the others that come to their home in the country they spay/neuter and release. Many come up missing from hawks, eagles and coyotes, but some make it for at least a couple of years. He built a shelter for them, and they get food two times a day. But living outside isn't an easy life for a cat, and the life expectancy for an outside cat is 2 years, compared to fourteen years (even longer, now, with modern medicine) for an inside cat.
When I saw Sweetie Pie, she was shaking her head and pus and blood were coming out. I had just decided a few days before that I (S.P.A.) can not save all suffering animals. That I was personally doing more than my share, and that all of the hours I was donating to rescue were beginning to take a serious toll on my health. I looked the other way, and drove home, thinking that she lived at Ryan's and Char's, and surely they must have noticed this huge growth protruding from her ear.
By the time I arrived home I knew I couldn't turn my back on this kitty cat. My eyes were welled with tears, and I felt her pain. I ran to the barn to tell Terry about this cat, and we hurried back over (about 20 minutes away) to Ryan's and Char's to search for this Sweetie Pie. We looked and looked for about fifteen minutes, or more. Nothing. Finally, I heard a faint mew from under their deck, and called her my the name I had just given her. She came from under the deck and climbed right up into my lap. I quickly placed her into the carrier we brought with us, and we called the vet. It was a Sunday, and we realized there may be emergency charges.
Fremont Animal Hospital performed surgery, but they couldn't get all of the cyst. Sweetie Pie stayed in boarding there, and received lots of one on one attention and lots of ear meds and rinses. They all kept saying how wonderful and friendly this sweetheart was. She reaches through the bars on her kennel to touch you.
Then, Fremont Animal Hospital decided to order a wonderful new piece of equipment that would enable them to go into the ear and remove the cyst on the other side of her eardrum. They had considered purchasing this very expensive piece of equipment for some time. It is called a Video Vetscope. I don't believe any other vets in this area have one.
They tried the Vetscope out on Sweetie Pie and were able to remove the other cyst. They discovered that her eardrum was totally destroyed from having such a severe infection, but she is fine and dandy now and can hear perfectly from her right ear.
She is ready to leave Fremont Animal Hospital, and my only option at this point is to bring her to the cat area here in our barn which houses 42 cats presently. It is really nice, with ramps and tunnels and carpeting and heat. Each area has a window, etc. But it is stressful for cats to get use to all of the other cats etc. I have 5 cats in our house, one of which suffers from a rare disease, with a hole in the middle of his heart. I have to keep a constant watch on him. The others are special needs, some more serious than others. I just hate bringing her here when I know she'd get more one on one somewhere else.
I'd much rather be able to take Sweetie Pie to a forever or foster home where she can get all of the one on one she deserves. We'd give whoever fostered/adopted her all of the food they'd need (and then some!).
What is making her very hard to place is that she requires ear rinse and drops once a day, which she is use to receiving. And people are put off by her being deaf in her left ear and her bottom eye lid won't remove itself totally from the eye since her surgery. She is fine, her eye just looks a little funky.
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