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Leave a treat for Cammy - In loving memory
Nicknames:
Icecream
Kitty Complexion:
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Sun Sign: 
Birthday:
January 7th 1999
Coloration:
Black and White
Likes:
Oddie!
Favorite Nap Spot:
The bed
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story:
On the 21st of February this year I went to place near our house where there are quite a few strays. That day I went there to see if I could catch one cat there with a wound on his back. He denied to enter my trap, but Cammy did! ;)
After a few adventures, here we are! Us and our sweet ice cream!
Bio:
In the beginning we thought he may be completely feral and we would have problems, so probably the best would be to heal him and get him back into the wild.
He had an eye missing, a hole under his chin that almost got his jugular (the vet said he was really lucky there!). He was tested for FIV and FELV and came back FIV+.
That didn't help, as it created a new problem: how about if he would attack my other cats?!?! Or the other way around?
With no experience in feral cats, I was pretty scared when I realized the work I had taken in!
I first let him around the house, which proved to be an awful idea. He would freak out when seeing us and peed in the bedroom twice (probably because he didn't want to pass us).
But I did touch him a couple of times while he was still a bit groggy from the anaesthesia at the vet's.
I then locked him in the kitchen. He was ok there and sometimes even came out to eat or go to the litter box with us in the kitchen too. Then my long nights of sitting and lying in the kitchen floor reading a book or being mighty quiet waiting for the cat to come and have a sniff started. God, there were moments when I thought I was losing my mind doing that! :p
On the 1st of March he was starting to stare at me more often, out of his hiding place, but then again, he was passing almost all the time hiding. He was still on anti-biotics because of the hole in his neck but thankfully he ate those in the food.
On the 6th he started losing his fur. I didn't know what to do. Was it some sort of thing he already had and was coming out now or was it because he was so depressed that his immune system was suffering?
We went to the vet on the 9th and she thought he was quite depressed and the skin problem was just some fungae. Her advice was to go to the place where I got him and release him. If he didn' t go fine, but if he ran like mad, that was it. The anti-biotics had finished and that was the best we could do for him.
I went there, all tearful, opened the box and walked away. And waited. And waited... and waited... And Cammy wouldn't leave the box. Another cat even went inside the box and Cammy just stared at me like: "are we going or what? Take this mad cat from inside my box!" After waiting for a while and even trying to tilt the box for the cat to leave, I gave up, closed it again and went back home! Very happy that he decided to stay.
I was more confident now about getting him socialized and even when a friend said he could stay in her back yard (open, but more safe than where he was) I decided against it and kept trying.
By the 12th, I had gotten a new cat in the house besides Cammy and Cammy had moved to an open box on top of the dryer next to the fridge. At least we could now see him more and he could see us more as well!
In the meantime, he even had a couple of visitors that wanted to meet him. He was starting to be famous hm? :p
By the 26th of March he was again taking anti-biotics! One morning my mum asked me what I had in the floor of my kitchen. I thought it was cat sick and took him to the vet. It wasn't sick. It was pus that had come out of a HUGE abcess he had in his face. He wasn't getting fat in the face; he was growing an abcess that blew that day! It looks like the first time at the vet's we overlooked a tiny bit of a plant that was stuck inside his mouth near his cheek. It had been there all this time infecting him and when it blew it made a HUGE hole in his face
:( Back to being stitched up and more anti-biotics. Amazingly for a cat with FIV, he was doing pretty well. At the vet's he let himself be handled no problem, which was a pleasant surprise. Afterall he was in pain and still not attacking or anything.
Around the begining of April he started to get to know Baco, the other cat and all went fine and it was even being good for him. Another little kitten, Pulgas, that was here for a while as well was also being very good for Cammy.
He went back to the vet to check everything and also to do an X-ray to see if he had something on his tummy, seeing that it was so enlarged. Nothing was there, so he was just fat and getting used to a new diet after years in the street.
Meanwhile, a new cat had arrived, but had to be in quarantine, so they could only see each other through glass, being only introduced to them around the 15th. Again, all went fine.
Oddie, the 3rd cat (a female this time) was taking some vitamins gel and on the 21st I managed to make Cammy lick some out of my finger! Hey, he was approaching us more and more!
By the begining of May, Cammy would already go on our beds and not even leave with us there, sit on the sofas with us there and interact much more with the other cats! They were definitely a great help to him.
He's great friends with both of them and even if he still rushes his step when he passes us sometimes, he isn't afraid to pass right next to us anymore and goes everywhere in the house.
We can now approach him when he is lying down to pet him (even the kid can do it!) and he has the most sweet miaow of the lot! :)
Cammy and the rest of the family say thank you to everyone who believed in us and tough to the ones who didn't. We aren't lucky. We just didn't give up on one another.
(Don't say anything to the other ones, but Cammy quickly got a very special place in my heart :) )
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Cammy is gone
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Catster Id:
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May 2nd 2008 9:53 am
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And life in my house continues hectic! Mama is always very busy with all my friends but she never forgets me.
People told her it would get better but only I know how much she still cries when she's alone. I wish I could go back to her so she could be again with me. We both miss each other madly.
Mama bought some new stuff for us in the last months:
* a HUGE cat tree (that the rest of my family hardly uses!!! how silly are they?);
* another smaller one to replace the old scratching post- Rusca really likes this new one. She even sleeps in it and is always sitting on top of it. It was clearly a great idea;
* a pet couch for the living room, another great idea as everyone loves it and helped Jolly passing more time with them instead of always hiding.
They are trying their best with training and calming Jolly down. Hope it helps!
* a smaller pet couch for the kitchen to replace the baby bouncy chair where Oddie was always sleeping. She loved the new couch as well, always in it. I think she hardly got out of it in the day Mama put it there! :p
Yesterday Mama was playing jokes on Baco and dressed him with one of the old baby suits (he lets them do everything to him. I swear he's not a cat!! he must be a human disguised!) but when she put him in the floor to walk, he tripped a bit over his own legs and Mama felt all her insides freezing as he made her remind me in my last days.
Papa quickly undressed Baco and the fun was over :(
It was a pity because it's nice to see Mama smiling and they were all having fun (even Baco :p).
After that they noticed that one of our toys, ermmm... gerbills I mean :p, is quite sick and bloated. Papa says Mama has to get used to the idea of death but she's terrified of loosing yet another one of us.
She told him that when I passed away a little light inside her switched off. That light will only relight itself again on the day she seems me again. Until then Mama! :)
January 25th 2008 8:10 pm
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Until when will she continue to have bad days? Today is one of them... Mama was emailing the person that saved Mama Kat and the kittens (kittens? erm... by now?!?! sure... they are bigger than I was!!! :p) and was going through the photos to choose some when she saw some of my last pics...
She still didn't went through them and even to see some as small thumbnails was already bad enough.
The though is always the same on these days... why? Why did they let this happen to you? Why couldn'ty they call or take you to the vet and get help?!?! You had so little time... You were so shortly with us! And the guilt, my God, the guilt that you were waiting for us! Were your last days happy? Were you confortable? You did look happy to have us back... I'm sorry, so sorry I ever left you and let those people taking care of you! Will you ever forgive me for such misjudgement? I would never have left you with them if I knew. If only I knew!...
I have been looking at my family and they are doing really great! Mama is not sure if she should speak about them here, on my diary, or if she should use their own diaries. But then whose diary?!?! There is too many of us around! :)
Kocka and Rusca are definetly getting used to everyone else. Kocka is definetly the boss! There is no doubts about that one! She won't tolerate messing around from any of them! Go Kocka! :p
Pimenta is completly and utterly fascinated with Rusca. Mama thinks he may be in love. Aww.... How sweet innit? Pitty that Rusca doesn't think the same ;)
December 25th 2007 8:03 pm
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Hope you all had a great Christmas here on Catster! My family had it as good as they could without me around.
Unfortunetly 3 of us couldn't be with them yet but will be in January so only a bit more to go.
My mummy had not expect to pass Christmas with me on the bridge so she had a rough time to not let anyone realize how sad she felt.
It's quite unfair that one of those tasty postcards she had doesn't have my name on it now! I also wanted some kitty treats!
But I was happy to see the rest of my family having fun. Mama Cat is feeling quite more relaxed now and I think the kittens are also alright.
Not sure about Rusca yet :p
Pimenta is definetly taking it just fine, even with Jolly and I'm sure they will be all ok :)
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year everyone! :)
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