In today’s P3 and 4 lessons i briefly talked about Bella the cat:
So anyway thursday i showered her to discover she was super SUPER skinny, smelt bad, had gunk stuck in her back toe nails, and was very weak. She didn’t want to eat or drink but in any case i HAD to bring her to the vet because of how bad she looked.
And at first i thought she was having diarrhoea, because i kept finding little puddles of smelly beige fluid.
Fast forward to the vet’s (Mt Pleasant Vet, Jln Gelenggang – had to go there because they’re 24 hrs. It was already 6-ish at that time and the nearby vet was closing v soon). Turns out she was SUPER dehydrated, and that wasn’t diarrhoea – that liquid was pus oozing from a bad wound at her left leg.
Needless to say the doctors had to take her in to give her lots of fluid, antibiotics and a heat pad to at least get her to a stable condition.
That was Thursday night.
On Friday they called to update that she was still not super okay and still refused to eat or drink.
And today during our class the vet called again to update – that’s why i had to leave to take that call and pass it to someone else. Important update!
She’s gotten a TEENY WEENY bit better, and is now moving around the cage.
I really hope she does well. I plan on visiting her on Monday (visiting hours 2-4 pm, which is understandable because the sick animals need their privacy and rest time, and the staff need to be able to focus on their work).
I still don’t know what will happen next because there are already 4 cats here (Kiki is back for now!) and introducing a 5th might be very difficult. If i could, I’d keep ALL THE CATS. But space is a real constraint, as with whether or not they can get along, and the costs of keeping many animals healthy and happy.
(p.s. if you noticed that loud sound in the video, it’s the construction going on outside. Mon to sat, morning till night :’) they’re building a bunch of things here, see. Just gotta bear with it, eh.)
Anyway that’s all, hope this update answered all the questions i didn’t get to address during the lesson just now. If there’s anything else you’d like to know, please leave a comment and i’ll do my best to reply as soon as possible.
Take care of one another.
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