We adopted our cat, Andy, on January 30th of this year (2025). His previous owner had dumped him outside and he was found at some point by a kind stranger who took him into the shelter. As a senior deaf black cat (age 13) he had been overlooked for nearly 2 years in the shelter. But when I met him, I knew it was meant to be. He is my very best buddy, and we go on many adventures together.
But, he is sick. We had been taking him to a previous vet who never diagnosed him as really having anything wrong. But I knew something was off. I dumped money into numerous tests, dental surgery, medications - but they weren't working. Everything "looked normal" they said.
So after battling an eye infection with medicine for 3 straight weeks, we took Andy to a different vet. We found out that along with his eye infection, he has upper respiratory infection, a significant heart murmur, a distended belly, is abnormally underweight, has Feline Alveolar Osteitis caused by periodontal disease that is causing his canines to be painfully pushed out of his skull, and he may have worms. He is vomiting and has diarrhea.
We also found out that the previous vet had given him medication for his eye that could have done a lot of harm to him, and wasn't meant for the kind of infection he has. But we didn't know.
We had blood work done on him which I overdrafted my bank accounts to get. Because it was important. This cat means everything to me.
He is the happiest most loving cat you will ever meet. And I am so determined to help get him well again so he can live out the full and healthy and long happy life that he so desperately deserves.
His vet bills have been and will continue to be expensive (and his two kitty siblings will also need treated and tested if he does infact have worms to make sure they did not also get them). We are looking at a long road of appointments, testing, probably more dental surgery, and more. We have been scraping up everything we have to make sure he gets the care he needs. Any help would be a godsend to us and will help our kitty baby to thrive.
