Queen Victoria and the Path of Saving One Cat

So here's the very round kitty from the shelter. I can't reccommend going to the shelter. Very sad. Though the place is clean, and well run, it's disturbing to know that there are so many animals without homes. Not a job I could have. I've learned a lot though in the last 48 hours.

It takes someone like Jennifer at the shelter to contact someone like Elaine and Maine Coon Adoptions first off just to put a kitty, one of many, on the radar for saving. How the choices are made, who knows, but Queeny here is very affectionate, well beheaved, clean and of course very lovely to look at. There are probably hundreds of cats that don't get the chance, but she did. So after the email exchange, it takes someone who can stop what they are doing and go GET the cat. This time it was me, and it was surprisingly easy to pick her up. Saved. Just like that. True I'm not supposed to have more than 2 cats in the apartment, true I have 2 cats already, true I have tech week this week for a show, but still, a 20 minute round trip saved this kitty from being put down just a few hours later. So step one complete.

Now becuase she was in a shelter and only minimal tests and treatments were done, she has to be quarantined from my cats until she is deemed healthy. Easy too. I had extra litter box, food and stuff for her, and it was a great excuse to clean up the bedroom, and so there she goes. She is in there, had all she needs, a toy even to keep her amused.

So the next step is to take her to the vet to be checked for ear mites, fleas, tapeworm, other worms, FIV, she'll have all her shots, have a complete blood panel done to make sure all her organs are functioning and if she isn't spayed she'll ahve that done. She will be weighed and have her teeth checked and then if she is all in good shape at the end of that, we will micorchip her, and bath her ( a blog of it's own to be sure) and then she will be ready to go. That's a lot of time, money and attention on this kitty just to make sure she is totally healthy when some lucky person adopts her.

So more on the vet experience tomorrow...but this is certainly interesting, nice to know people care, nice to know all the work that goes into each cat to ensure thier safety!