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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