r/Tabico

She’s such a model!

Cynthia had been in my shelter’s system since May as a trapped feral, and when her previous foster could no longer care for her after a month I stepped in. She had fungal and bacterial URIs and has been on multiple medications in the meanwhile. She hadn’t been healthy enough to be spayed until her checkup last week, when they had finally scheduled her!

The thing is that she stopped showing signs of heat around July-August. I just thought that maybe it was more subtle than usual. Then a few days ago she had started eating clay litter. I had to monitor her whenever she went to use the box so she wouldn’t start eating more. Her appetite decreased and she started having trouble breathing the night before the appointment.

I dropped her off and did my best to distract myself, but I still got sent into a panic when she wasn’t awake when I was told to come an hour after the normal pickup time. She did wake up, she just REALLY liked the free, uninterrupted and chemically induced nap. While I was waiting, one of the vet techs told me that they had scheduled her at a great time. When they went to remove everything, they only found half of one of her ovaries/tubes, and maybe some sections of uterus. What was there had started to fill with fluid, the precursor to pyometra. The pyometra would explain why she started to eat the litter; she was seeking whatever nutrients the clay could provide.

She’s home and healing now in her little space suit. She’s one tough cookie, and is so happy to sit in her window again. If she’s still with me in the spring, I’ll be foster failing when I have to move out of state. She’s a real fighter, and I’m so glad I could be here to support her through it.

We are hoping on catching Purr-Lee Monday morning and taking her to the Animal Birth Control Clinic for a very important vaccination and spay.

I started putting food in the trap with the door tied open on Friday to get her used to it. She moved into it immediately and was in it off and on all day Sunday. I set the trap off with a pull chord so i can target certain cats and it is the tabico Purr-Lee’s turn.

Her Mother Atsea Aurora and her sister Purrsephany have already been trapped and spayed and now it is her turn.

Atsea Aurora has kept her family together even after her spay. Purrsephany (Torbie), Purr-Lee (dilute tabico), Perry Feral (tabby) and Loki (silver tabby) hang out with their mother most every day.