I was shopping at a local plaza when a sickening sight caught my eye. To my disbelief a 14 yr. old boy was kicking and throwing this black hopeless kitten. It amazed me how many people walked by and did nothing. I could not allow this heathen to continue to hurt this poor helpless kitten. I am not normally a confrontational person, but I could not allow this to go on. When he laughed at me & threatened to slit the kittens throat I had no choice to push him into the brick wall as hard as I could to enable myself to get the kitten off of him. Here's the real kicker the mother was there and thougt that what her son was doing was helarious. Thank god they were arrested. I took the sweat kitten to the vet to make sure she did not have injuries & everything checked out. The vet guessed she was around 9 wks. old, I obtained her on Oct. 30. Once she felt secure with me she was the sweetest thing & got along great with my 4 other rescue cats. She was so full of life & loved to play, cuddle on my lap. Unfortunately that all changed 1 1/2 wks. ago she no longer played, had very fast breathing and slept all the time (she did keep her appetite) unfortunately it turned out that she was terminally ill. On Dec. 22 I took her to the vet to have surgery done on what they thought was a Diaphragmatic hernia. (basicly there is a tear in the chest cavity which allows the abdominal organs to migrate into the chest cavity). Unfortunately it turned out that she had FIP, which affects all the organs. There is no treatment or cure for the disease and it is an extremely painful condition for the kitten. It has a 100% mortality rate. During surgery they drained 100cc of fluid from her chest & recommended putting her down. We got there an hour after they drained the fluid and she was already filling back up with fluid. I said my tearful goodbyes and cradle her like a baby while they euthanized her. at least I know in my heart that she was loved and well taking care of the last two months of her short life. She will be buried next to my plot & a service will be held tommorrow morning. I will love & miss her greatly. Her time on this earth was way to short which just breaks my heart.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF DAISY WHO GAVE ME SUCH JOY THE SHORT TIME I SHARED WITH HER. I will reunite with her when my time is done.