Reminiscing about Misha
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| Thu, 06-02-2005 - 11:29am |
I can't believe it but it's been nearly a year since I adopted my sweet Misha (then known as Salty). I was looking at her Humane Society records today and this is the date one year ago she was left at the Humane Society by her first family. She was pregnant and it still breaks my heart they spayed her two days later (on June 4) and no one could tell me why or what became of her kittens. I can only imagine. :-( We first layed eyes on her on June 6 last year and fell in love. She was rubbing up against the glass and we couldn't resist taking her into a room to visit with her. I wish I'd taken her home that very day but you may recall I pondered for a few days bringing her into our home with three cats that wouldn't be too pleased to share their territory with a new arrival (sadly they still aren't happy with her). On June 9 I went back and spent more quality time with her and knew I had to have her. I officially adopted her that evening and brought her home June 10 (we wanted to set up her room and get her a litter box, food, toys, etc first). I'm sure many here remember the next few months I had to keep her in isolation since she had the URI and UTI and parasites. She was hospitalized for 3 or 4 days as well. It was a very worrisome time and with me sleeping with her in her room and giving her lots of TLC she recovered. I will never forget everyone's support and prayers here on Cats. I am so grateful to this day for your care and concern for my Misha. She is a total sweetheart and I am so blessed to have her in my life.
Can you believe she was so skinny and now she wants to eat all the time? LOL! I continue to pray her companion Gracie will be able to live and spend her life loving & playing with her "mommy" Misha. :-)
Thanks for listening :-)
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Wow, I can't believe it's been a year already! At the same time, I think, wow, it's only been a year and a half since I got Tasha! Seems like she has always been a part of my life. LOL. Misha looks so happy and healthy in her siggy picture! You've done a wonderful job with her. Give her a snuggle for me!
And yes, I have another kitty! I've always had at least two pets in my home (usually 1 cat and 1 dog), so having just 1 cat WAS a little strange for me. LOL. Anyway, here's a link to my post about how Bailey came into my life:
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-ptcat&msg=28191.1&ctx=256
He was only about 5 weeks old, and hadn't been weaned from his mama yet, so I had to feed him with a syringe for the first two days. Ever since then, he's been eating and drinking like a little pig, and growing like a weed! He's very happy and healthy, and he and Tasha are steadily becoming friends. She still gives him the odd hiss, but generally she plays with him, lets him eat out of her food dish, and even shares his litter box (even though she still has her own - LOL!). And he's a little cuddler - he purrs the moment he is picked up. I'm so glad I brought him home. :)
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Awww, I remember your adoption of sweet Misha well.
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Thank you Unicorn for your kind words about Misha and she says thank you for the snuggle! :-)
You've done an excellent job with pretty Tasha and now with adorable Bailey! I am going to read your story about him after this. I am delighted to hear how well they are getting along! I wish my older kitties would be nice to my Misha...sheesh! One year and they still have "issues". LMBO!!
When I look back at the photo from a year ago the Humane Society took I really see the major improvement in my Misha. She's now a healthy weight and her fur is soft and she is energetic and healthy. Now her only health concern is the obsessive compulsive licking she's developed due to the stress over the older cats wanting to chase her or fight with her. I have to keep them separate 99% of the time still which is a shame. I hope things will improve this next year.
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(((((Leslie))))) Thank you soooo much for your kind words and for remembering those days when I slept on the floor with my Misha. I didn't want her to be alone for a minute when she was so sick and in a new environment. I'm so happy she got better and that she bonded with me & Tim and sweet little Gracie. I am amazed how much better she is a year later....she even has a cute little belly from loving to eat so much. LMBO!!! I am praying constantly for a miracle for Gracie. As much as it hurts me and Tim to think of losing her, I am most worried about how Misha would get by without her. She wouldn't understand why she was all the sudden not there and Gracie is her only friend here since the other furgirls won't warm up to her. It will break my heart to see her missing Gracie just like it has been difficult seeing my Cocoa mourn the loss of ^Gandalf^. I'll take it one day at a time, like I did with Misha when she was sick, and pray for recovery for sweet Gracie.
I want to go pick up Misha and give her a big kiss now! :-)
Hugs to you and your furkids,
My Gracie just turned 1 year old in April and I am heartbroken knowing there is a high chance I am going to lose her this year to FIP disease. She wasn't eating much last February and I was getting worried. I took her to the vet and they did blood tests which showed anemia and high globulins (possible signs of FIP). It's been so difficult to diagnose for sure since there's no accurate test for FIP....only with exploratory surgery and biopsies, or with autopsy can the disease be accurately confirmed. I have had a coronavirus titer test done which came back positive (this test doesn't say if the coronavirus she's been exposed to is FIP or not though). I had a genetic PCR test done which came back negative. It's very puzzling. I've managed to keep her stable since March by force feeding her canned food with a syringe 3 times a day. She went from 4.2 pounds up to 5 pounds. She still won't eat much on her own. She only picks at Misha's dry food on occasion. She has chronic diarrhea. She has good days and bad. She often plays with Misha and seems relatively ok. Today she threw up and I was forced to give her a half tab of prednisolone to reduce the inflammation in her tummy & GI tract. I do this for just 2 days and then stop because if I give her this medicine for too long, in spite of the fact that it makes her feel better, it would shut down her immune system and she would certainly die in the long run. I am praying she will be able to recover from this since she's stayed mostly stable for over 3 months. (Most FIP cats die very quickly). She has the dry form which can linger for months in some cats but I am bracing myself for if any bad things happen like her organs start to fail or if she gets extremely lethargic and gets no more joy out of life....they we will have to face the terrible reality of putting her out of her misery and letting her wait for us at the Bridge. :-( It's terrible facing losing a baby who's only 1 year old. It's so unfair.
Sorry I wrote a book here....I just wanted you to know why everyone is praying for her. The vet said Misha should be fine....I hope she's right. She said Misha and all our cats have been exposed to the coronavirus by sharing litter boxes with Gracie, but that she can't catch FIP because it happens in a small percent of cats who get stressed and the coronavirus mutates into the deadly FIP form. Gracie got this when she was at the Burmese breeders home and it just took a while to present itself. I have been told there isn't anything I could have done to prevent it. It's just so sad.
Thanks for listening and for your prayers for my baby.
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((((Rena)))) Thank you so much! It's good to have you here on Cats by the way!
Yes it was a difficult beginning. She was only at the Humane Society for a week before I adopted her but she must have picked up the URI there. It took weeks of medicine and TLC but she made it through and I'm so happy to have her I can't imagine life without her!
I'm glad you like the Mishkateers. LOL! I talked to Jane about the idea of having all the Mishas on a blinkie and mentioned how I'd called my cats the Katkateers. She created that adorable blinkie with the three Mishas. :-)
My Misha is the tortie....I have a fondness for them since my first kitty ^Missy^ was a tortie. I also have grown to be fond of Misha's little "bobtail"....very unique! :-)
((((Chris)))) Thank you for worrying and praying for Misha back then and celebrating her healthy year since then. Thank you also for your continued optimism and prayers for Gracie. Your ^Ellie^ is her guardian angel. If any kitty has a chance for a miracle it's our Gracie!
Hugs to you and your furkids,
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