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Coloration: Black and White
Likes: Being pet, sitting on laps, being hugged, cuddles, grooming his feline housemates
Pet-Peeves: Veterinarians, cat carriers, being brushed
Favorite Toy: His stuffed mouse toy
Favorite Nap Spot: Anywhere comfortable!
Favorite Food: Anything!
Skills: Answers to his name and comes when called, knocks on doors when he wants to be let into a room
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: Maus, along with his mommy Chloe, were both rescue kitties that we hadn't planned on adopting. As fate would have it, my mother traveled on a road she didn't usually take as a detour to go on an errand, and saw what looked like two small kittens in a grassy area near a tremendous ditch. As it was dark,and growing late, she wasn't able to stop and look. The next day we again went that way, and sure enough there was a kitten in the same spot. Parking the car, we got out and went over to investigate. A tiny kitten, no more than 5 weeks old, came running over and allowed me to pick him up. It was clear to see that he had an upper respiratory infection, and conjunctivitis to boot. As I was holding the kitten on my knee while kneeling in the grass, he meowed and squirmed and made a break for freedom, running in the direction of the fence that led down to the ditch. On the opposite side of the fence, perched on the tree, was what could only be the mother of the kitten, a very thin female with almost the same exact markings. At first I wasn't sure what to do. Should we leave the kitten with his mother? Take the kitten? Go back home and find some sort of carrier to bribe the mother cat in? These thoughts all occured to us because we thought the mother was a feral cat. It soon became clear that she was not feral, as she leapt from the tree, meowing all the way, and squeezed under the fence to come running over to us. Though we had no carrier, I couldn't leave them there, not after seeing how thin the mother cat was, and the amount of discharge from both their eyes. As luck would have it, I was to start my job at a nearby veterinary hospital that day, and we brought the cats in to get the care that they needed for their upper respiratory infections. The mother cat, who we nicknamed "Mommy kitty", was very thin at only a little over 4 pounds. The kitten, dubbed "Lucky", was barely a pound! Both mother and kitten had fleas, and a stubborn U.R.I. that would take a few weeks to resolve. As we had Brookie, "Mommy Kitty" and "Lucky" were given a temporary home in the shed, which was specially insulated, and we installed a temporary heater to keep them warm. Once they were deemed healthy, mommy and kitten were allowed in the house, and they've been loved members of the family ever since!
Bio: Maus has had quite a tough life for a young man of only two years! In addition to the upper respiratory infection he had as a kitten, Maus has had a bunch of medical problems since being rescued. At only six months of age, still named "Lucky", he was rushed to the veterinary hospital after several days of vomiting and acute abdominal pain and crying early one morning. The veterinarian, having felt "something strange" in his intestines upon palpitation, took an X-Ray that determined that there was a foreign body creating a blockage in his intestines. "Lucky" was rushed to surgery for its immediate removal, and part of his lower bowel had to be removed as they found that he'd been born with a defect in it. The surgery itself went well, but his PCV dropped rapidly and he bled heavily from the rectum the next morning, resulting in an emergency transfer to a specialty hospital for firther treatment. After spending nearly a week in the hospital, renamed "Maus" as "Lucky" wasn't the most fitting of names, he was deemed well enough to return home, wearing a cone and with a staples incision all the way down his abdomen. Unfortunately for Maus, the skin healed in such a way that the staples were digging into the skin, causing an infection. Poor Maus had to once again be brought to the vet hospital to be reopened and restapled! It was never determined exactly what caused the blockage, but it is thought that due to the odd structure of his intestinal tract, dead worms left over from his deworming treatment had backed up and caused the problem. It didn't take too long for Maus to completely heal, and he was fine for awhile until a few weeks before his second birthday. In the weeks leading up to that event, Maus had been having problems defecating in the litterbox due to constipation that had required him to undergo two enemas. The weekend of August 4th, I heard him crying loudly early in the morning and licking his privates. Having flashbacks of the first time he'd been making that noise, Maus was again brought back to the hospital, and this time was determined to have a urinary blockage. The vet sedated him and passed a urinary catheter, and Maus spent a week in the hospital recovering from this ordeal. Now diagnosed with Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (FLUTD), Maus is doing well, though needs to remain on a special diet to try and prevent another obstruction from occuring.
Though he's had his share of problems, Maus has remained an extremely affectionate cat and the most loving animal I have known. He sleeps with me at night, and enjoys sitting in my lap, kneading my neck, and trying to nurse on my chin. He's a big mush who loves everyone, and all the vets and technicians who have worked with him fell in love with him on the spot.
Lives Remaining: 4 of 9
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Dusty has tagged me, so here are five facts about myself!:
1)I love Brooke, the oldest cat in the family, and always go to try and touch noses with her and rub my head against hers. Only, she doesn;t like that at all and will hiss and whack me in the head. I keep trying though! One of these days..
2) As affectionate as I am, I HATE getting my nails clipped and will squirm and growl when my human mom tries! She always manages to get them all in the end. :(
3) I love greeting new people that come to visit and will immediately try and climb on their laps or ask for a headbutt!
4) I looove my human meowmy's robe and will pull it off of the hook where it normally hangs just to curl up with it! So soft.. purrrr...
5) Even though I am an indoor cat, I am a great hunter if I do say so myself! I bring my human meowmy any bug that dares to come into the house.. usually alive. (She doesnt like that for some reason...) I also bring her my stuffed toy mouse, which I will carry around the house in my mouth.
I will now tag the following five kitties to post five facts about themselves in their diaries!
Wow! Was my meowmy in for a surprise when she turned on the computer and logged onto Catster! She told me I was cat of the day and I couldn't believe it! I ran downstairs to tell Brooke the news but all she did was cuff me upside the head and hiss. :(
But hey, I'm cat of the day!
Thank you to the family of Bixit, Monkey, Smugglesby; the family of O'Malley, Squeaky (and lots of kitties, mol); Bubby ; Milani; Copy; and the family of Scratch, Tiger, and Cecelia for the rosettes and stars and stuff!
And to everyone else who sent pawmail and furr-end requests!
Meow everyone, Maus here! My human mom took me to the dreaded vet again! Luckily it was only for a checkup , but I still hate going! It took her fifteen minutes before she could catch me - I may not look it but I'm fast, mol!
The vet checked me over and said that everything was okay, and that I wasn't blocked up or anything! They did take a urine sample from my insides with this needle. It didn't really hurt very much, just a pinprick! Hopefully my urine doesn't have any of those crystals in it so I don't have to go back to the vet for another year. I'd rather stay at home and lounge on the bed, and maybe beat up the dog if I get bored.
That reminds me. i need to go smack the dog around a bit. meow ya later! >^..^<
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