FFRC Weekly Blog Week Ending January 25, 2025
Adoptions:
Great week for adoptions!
Brothers Hooper and Hopper, were adopted together. These boys came to us last August when they were just 4 months old. Their lives were threatened so FFRC took them in and hoped they would be adopted together, and they were! They will be spoiled (as it should be). They now have new names, Fred and George.
Allen was adopted! He came in with three siblings (a fourth had already passed) last May. They were all found in a box in a yard.
Piet and Dutton were adopted! The family that adopted Sanford last August wanted to adopt the cat that Sanford had lived with for the prior 8 years. When they came in to adopt Piet they asked to see Dutton, whom they had really liked watching the cam. They fell in love with him, so they adopted both Dutton and Piet. Piet is 11 years old and she and Sanford had both been surrendered in 2023 as their family dynamics changed. Dutton is 6 years old and was found by a local Fedex driver after Dutton’s family left him on the porch when they moved.
Foxy was adopted! Foxy is 9 years old and was found last April wandering a local neighborhood. She was very thin and looked terrible. We had doubts she would make it but she did and now gets to live her life with Megan’s Aunt, surrounded by love.
New Cats:
Alberta: On Tuesday, at night we took in a new cat. She was an outside stray and a local family was concerned it was so cold so they were able to catch her and bring her inside. They have a dog and the cat was in rough shape, so we took her in. She really came in as a hot mess. She is a long haired cat whose fur is extremely matted. She is either totally blind or partially blind. She may also be deaf. She was in obvious pain from her fur being in such bad shape.
We were able to sedate her and shave her to remove the matts. Once the matts were removed we noticed she has bruises over most of her body. We have her on pain meds but is still uncomfortable. Matts are painful and it pulls on the skin and can cause infections. We can pet her on the top of her head but below that she is in obvious pain, even on pain meds. She is eating and pooping normally. We’ve named her Alberta.
After just a day, she is now purring and is doing so much better, but has a long road ahead of her. We have heat pads on her bed and she loves that. She is going to be a black tiger (long haired).
Big Orange Cat: On Wednesday we received a call that a big orange cat was outside, populating the neighborhood. We were able to get him in a live trap and he is a very big boy. He’s a little feral and initially we couldn’t really touch him. Now we have been able to give his pets, but with a scratching pole. He loves his food and smells very much like a man on a mission. We’ll get his missions ended by neutering him, first chance we can. He doesn’t yet have a name, so we’ll just call him Chunka Munka. We actually did get blood drawn and he passed.
Health Updates:
Pania: Pania’s chronic skin issues have flared up big time. She has had these issues for a while and they usually run their course after a few weeks, then come back again. She is given medicine to help with the itching. She also has an upper respiratory infection. She is on meds but will go up to see Dr. Darcy this week.
Teddy looked a little ‘icky’ this week so we did a stomach tap and he tested positive for wet FIP. A few years ago, that would have been a death sentence. However, there is treatment now, but it is a long process, requiring daily injections and isolation. We’ve had a couple of cats where the treatment has worked. (Wheeler and Vincent). There are several types of FIP and wet FIP is the type where treatment is more successful. The medicine is very expensive but we feel that Teddy is a good candidate so we will do what we can to save him. The process is painful and we do give pain meds. After only a few days, Teddy has perked up and we are hopeful for a good outcome. He has insisted after his injection, he receives a delectable as compensation. Luckily we have about 9 bags of the licky sticks so Teddy will get all the delectables he wants.
Other Updates:
A sweet woman had asked Megan if she could use our stream for a few hours a week as she has a kids cam. We gave her permission but did this before realizing that this is against youtube policies so we have asked her to not stream our youtube page. Her intentions were good and she just wanted to promote our page on her children’s channel. She’s a very nice woman and we are sorry for the miscommunication.
A friend of Megan’s reached out and offered to come in and look at our computer/cam set up and see what can be done to improve things. He came in and the first thing he noticed was that we have a lot of cables going here, there and we have no idea. So the first thing he will be doing is to clean up our cables. Some of our cabling is very old and he believes just replacing some cables will help improve our performance and speed. He ran some diagnostics and our speed is not what it should be. So in a few weeks, he’ll be spending a day changing out cables and things. During that time we’ll shut down everything. It will probably be in a few weeks, so we thank everyone in advance for your patience. We’ll let you know when it will happen as we get closer to that day.
Holds:
Spitfire
Billie Jean (tentative date is Feb. 23)
Other:
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
-- Vince Lombardi
Alberta
