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Age: 17 Years Sex: Male Weight: 11 lbs.
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Quick Bio:
Coloration:
Orange Tabby
Likes:
Cabbie has always been a very calm kitty. He really enjoys sleeping on my stomach and being near me.
Pet-Peeves:
he does not like his tail touched. Other than that he lets you do anything you want to him.
Favorite Toy:
Cabbie does not play anymore. So his favorite toy is the bed.
Favorite Nap Spot:
my pillow
Favorite Food:
chicken, tuna, anything off my hamburger including tomato's and lettuce.
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story:
I found this cat at a cab company living under the cabs.
My name is Jeannette Schultz, google me if you want for the news stories.
2 years ago everything was great I had my 2 cats who i allowed in and out through a cat door which I now know was a big mistake. In june of 2005 my cat Chaos disapeaered from my home. I did everthing to find my baby who I had had since he was a kitten. I couldn't find him. 6 months later my second baby went missing. Cabbie was the coolest cat i had ever had. I rescued him from a taxi company yard sleeping under cabs. It was love at first site. As I was waiting for a ride home he jumped in my lap and that was it. Home he went with me. Cabbie always wanted to be outside. He had been a street cat for so long and I was told by my vet that he was at least 10 years old.
I was crushed when he went missing. I did not ever give up hope as both my cats disapeared with collars and microchips. they were also licensed with the county i lived in.
About 6 months later my neighbors cut down the trees on the property line and found a large pile of orange cat hair. We all assumed it was Cabbie. It was my closure.
Now 2 years after they diaspeared I get a call from Bestfriends.org telling me they had my 2 cats. They were found in a feral cat sancuary 1 hour from my house dieing and starving. best friends came and took over the facility after the president of the board was arrested for 125 counts of animal neglict/crulity and over 500 of the cats on the property had already died.
I was speachless and so happy to have my babies back again. I was so hurt when they disapeaered that I never got any other animals.
Chaos is ok but very under weight. Cabbie on the other hand is very sick. He had heart worms, FIV (aids) and severe anemia. He weighes 6.5 lbs and he was 17lbs when he went missing. He has diarrea that I'm just starting to get a handle on because i started giving him Pepto bismol. I give him I.V. fluids daily. The vet told me that his bone marrow is no longer producing red blood cells. And that he has a 5% chance of survival. This was not a outcome I could except. I did not just get him back to watch him die. The vet had prescibed him antibotics and vitamins.
I just moved back to Nevada after fighting for custody of my son for the last 6 months in Northern california. The vet bills are piling up and I just don't know what do do. We are so broke.
I am not willing to except the fact that he is going to die. I am sitting here crying while I write this because I feel that there has to be something else I can do, there just has to be a way.
Any advise will help. I give him so much love and talk to him constanty and try to tell him he has to fight. He does not seem to be is pain but it hurts me so much to think I may loose him.
I was told he can have a bone marrow transplant but it costs 5,000. to 8,000 at UC davis in California, but they would problely not agree to do the transplant because of the FIV. All I want is my baby to have a chance. Some of my friends tell me that I'm nuts to hang on to him like this because he is only a cat but to me he is my child and it feels like i'm losing a very big part of my heart. He has had it so hard living in the sancuary in Parump Nevada in the 100 + tempatures with no shelter and the freezing winters. but I feel if he made it this far he is a fighter.
My heart is breaking and all I need is advise, support and people that understand what I'm going through. Any ideas will help.
I feed him a diet of boiled chicken and liver which I have to help him eat because most of him teeth are gone.
Lives Remaining:
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Forums Motto:
"I will survive"
The Groups I'm In:
Cat Health, Doc Hunter's House of Medicine, Olde Furts, Rowdy Naughty Bawdy Cats and Dogs
The Last Forum I Posted In:
Walking Kitty on a leash
I've Been On Catster Since:
| August 14th 2007 |
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More than 2 years! |
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Catster Id:
606137
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June 15th 2008 12:25 am
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my original weight when I started on Catster was 7 lbs. I just want everyone to know that from now on I will be just changing my weight in my bio as I get bigger and bigger!
April 6th 2008 2:28 pm
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Its been so long since I wrote that I thought I would give an update. I am doing very well. I have taken up to sleeping in the garage where I find peace from the other cats and dog. They want to play with me and I am just not intrested. My red blood cell count is down again but the vet said this is normal and i will go up and down. We go for another check up this next week. I have started to forget the sancuary and have really wanted to start going outside. Every chance I get I run for the door. Mom has taken me out a few times and sits with me while I roll in the rocks and bask in the sun. She even let me sit on the patio all afternoon one day. I was so happy. I just loved laying in the sun. She decided to move the litter box into the garage. While the handyman was installing a kitty door in the garage door i made a run for it. I was gone 16 hours. Mom was frantic. She walked the whole neighborhood asking all the neighbors and looking under every tree or shrub. At 6 am a neighbor across the street found me in her yard. She fed me salbury steak and brought me home. Mom put me in her bed and I didnt move for 8 hours. I had quite and adventure running around the neighborhood like my old days, but my little old man body was exausted. I think I got the outside thing out of my system for now. I am now on a diet of only dry food. It has completly cured my diarrea. I can only eat Iams Hairball Control or Natures balance. Any other canned or dry food brings back the diarrea. mom is suprised that I enjoy the dry food so much but I don't want the canned stuff. I never ate it before so maybe thats why I just prefer it. I don't really sleep in my mom's bed anymore. I go through stages where every few weeks I switch to a new spot in the house and thats where I stay. I'm still 9 1/2 lbs. Mom cant get me any higher but at least I'm maintaining. Chaos is just getting fatter and fatter, He has a huge fat belly that sags down. mom says I need to take some of his fat. Rascal is also getting big. But he is all muscle. Mom says thats because he rolls around and plays with the dog so much that he is getting very strong. He is solid when you pick him up. Me? I just sit back and laugh at these crazy cats playing all day when they could be relaxing like me.
October 12th 2007 8:40 pm
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My mom is jumping for joy!!!! She was so excited when the vet called her today with such great new that she rushed home to have a talk with me and tell me the great news!
ALL my blood levels are NORMAL!!!!!!!
My enemia is gone. I am in normal range for the whole blood panel done on me!!! My mommy is just so happy she is the one purring and doing flips.
I am just doing so well. I am off antiobiotic compleatly, I still eat lots of good powders mixed in my food but I don't mind. The vet told mom that it is a absolutly amazing how I have bounced back. The vet told mom to try not to get to excited because at any time things could turn the other way, but mom cant help it, she is so hopefull.
GOOOOOOOO CABBIE is all my mom keeps saying. I just rub against her and purr. She know how happy I am to be home. She saved me just in the nick of time when I was ready to give up. Know I have a will to live and it's her.
We don't have another vet visit for 1 month unless I slide the wrong way but I don't see that happening.
As to my balance, hahahaha I walk sidways and put my butt up aginst objects to hold my balance. It is cute my mom says. I also shake my head alot and when I do this I fall over, but I don't seem to mind, I can live with this. It might never return but thats okay. I know I have all my moms love and thats all I need.
xoxox
PLEASE EXCUSE THE MISPELLING I AM ONLY A CAT. LOL
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