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Explorer and Snowbell

It all started when I was visiting my dad in Ovett, MS. There was a very little kitten that had been rejected by his mother. So, we tried to bottle feed it. My dad was a truck driver. He was going to be leaving out on the road again right after we left. Therefore, he told me to take the kitten home with me.

We took the kitten home. All seemed to be okay. That night I woke up several times to feed the kitten. The next morning things took a turn for the worse. The kitten appeared to be in distress. We rushed the kitten to the vet. The kitten died in route. We had named the kitten Little Pete. The vet informed us that the kitten was born with a life-threatening birth defect. The kitten was only about 2 weeks old.

My children were very upset over the loss of their new kitten. I suddenly had an idea on how to comfort them. We went to Cat Haven.

Since Little Pete had had blue eyes, my daughter wanted the new cat to have blue eyes. There was only one kitten there with blue eyes. This was a white kitten about 9 weeks old. A sign on his cage indicated that he might have FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) because his mother had tested positive and an earlier test showed a faint positive for this cat. However, it was still a little early to be sure. He would need to be retested at a later date. So, I ask some more questions about FIV. In the end I agree to take the kitten who we named Snow Bell.

My son by this time has found a kitten. This kitten is about 8 weeks old. The papers on his cage indicate that he is a very active kitten but loves to cuddle after he runs out of energy. My son believes that this kitten would be perfect for him. He is a mostly black colored kitten with a few stripes. We named him Explorer.

I call and make an appointment at the vet for both of the kittens. They are both sick with worms. Snowbell also has developed an eye infection. It takes two rounds of medication to get them well from the worms. Snowbell is retested for FIV because of the eye infection that does not want to get well. He is also tested for a few other things. Thankfully it is not FIV. Instead, this kitten has herpes. So, I learn about herpes in cats. Thankfully it is not usually transmitted to humans under normal conditions. Unfortunately, every time this cat gets stressed out about anything, he will have a flair up of herpes. That is why his eye developed an infection right after we brought him home. He was stressed out by the move. So, we now just keep his eye medication on hand for flair ups and try to keep the cat calm.

Explorer has most certainly lived up to his name. His favorite activity is exploring and getting into everything and anything. He is still very cuddly after he has run out of energy from playing.

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The Remarkable Heroism of a Stray Cat

God sometimes uses animals.
When I was about 6 years old, there was a yellow stray, cat that started hanging around our house. She was a beautiful yellow cat. The only problem was she was often pregnant.

One day around the end of May, I was sent to get the clothes out of the dryer. The washer and dryer were in the shed just behind the house. I went and got the clothes out dryer and put the clothes from the washer in the dryer. I then started back to the house with the dry clothes. Just as I stepped out the shed that yellow cat came running. She had saw what I failed to see. There about 6 feet directly in front of me was a rattle snake. This snake was just a shaking it’s rattle and it was ready to strike. Thankfully the snake was only about 1 foot long. That yellow cat went straight to the snake. She hissed and slapped at it. I quickly ran to the house and got my mom. My mom had a bad leg, so it took a few minutes to return to where the snake was. By the time we got there the snake was dead and the yellow cat was beginning to relax.

My mom sent me back in the house for some food for the cat. We used the food to get the cat to come to us. As best as we could, the cat was not exactly a tame house cat, we checked her for snake bites. Amazingly, we found none. After that we started buying cat food and setting it out daily. She was one cat that we differently wanted to stay around the house.

As time went on, that yellow cat became tamer. We started calling her Mama Yellow. She lived about 7 or 8 more years after this.

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Sunrise’s Story

I was visiting my dad with my children, my mom, my dog, and our two 8-month-old kittens for Christmas. One of them is mostly white and the other one is mostly black. It was morning time. I was in the kitchen trying to get breakfast ready for everyone. When my dad started yelling from the bathroom, “Is this your cat in here with me?” The short answer was no. The long answer was no; our kittens are in the bedroom on the other end of the trailer.

So, my dad comes out and sends me in there to find out about this cat. This cat is small and yellow. He is obviously very hungry. Since he is about the same size as my two 8-month-old kittens, I assume this cat is a kitten. My dad wants to know if this cat is a boy of a girl. He is a boy, so my dad says that he can stay. However, my dad’s girlfriend, Mary, seems to hate the cat. She kicks the cat off of the back porch. My dad sees this and tells me to take the cat home with me. We do our best to hide the cat that we have started calling Yellow Sunrise from Mary. My dad does his best to help us hide the cat from Mary. The night before we start for home the cat disappears. We can’t find him anywhere. The morning that we are to leave for home, we look one more time for this cat. We call and he comes running up to my son. My dad hands me a cat carrier. On the way home I call the vet near my house and get an appointment for the next day.

We get home and the fun begins. This cat is sick, very sick. We feed him and he just has diarrhea. He makes a trail from the food bowl to the litter box of diarrhea. We put him in a smaller room with the litter box as close to him as possible.

At the vet’s office the next day I found out how sick the cat is. He has an eye infection in both eyes, and ear infection in both ears, and he is having stomach issues from lack of regular feeding. It turns out that he is about 5 years old not a kitten. He also needs to be neutered. The vet recommends getting the cat well before the operation. Because he is not neutered, every time he gets to feeling better, he sneaks out of the house. He is like a houdini on escaping.

The 1st of January my dad calls from the hospital. He has stage 4 lung cancer. On top of trying to get this cat well enough to be neutered, I am now going back and forth to Mississippi to care for my dad. Mary has left my dad.

By the end of January, I schedule the operation for Sunrise even though he is still sick. The vet calls me and suggests waiting. She says he only has a 50% chance of surviving the operation. I tell her that with the operation he has 50% and without it he has no chance. Do the operation. She finally agrees with the agreement that he will get extra antibiotics. He survives.

Sunrise is now a very loving cat. He follows me everywhere. He was a great comfort to me after my dad passed away. He still opens the door to let himself out every morning, but now he also let’s himself back into the house about 15 minutes later. If the door is secured, he knows on the window and meows very loudly to be let in.

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