FFRC Weekly Blog Week Ending December 21, 2024
Adoptions:
Sweet, lovable gentle giant Oscar is now spending his days and nights in a foster home! His new foster mom is…..Megan’s mother! She recently took in Megan’s cat, Salem as Megan’s dogs are not willing to share their home with a cat. So Salem needed a friend and, well it’s a perfect match! It’s hopefully going to lead to a permanent home, but for now, everyone is happy to just take things one day at a time.
Oscar gets a home of his own, a new mom and a sibling. What could be better!
Fostering a pet is very important and if you are not yet reading to adopt, consider becoming a foster. It’s good for the cat but it’s also always good for you too.
Adopt, don’t shop and foster, don’t just sit on the sidelines and be curious.
Winner, winner, give them all a chicken dinner!
New Cats:
None
Health Updates:
Mitzy and Jack had eye surgeries this week.
Mitzy was already missing both eyes and one was already closed. She had surgery to close the other eye socket. We do this on cats that have an empty eye socket so the eye doesn’t get future infections.
Jack: If you remember Jack had already lost one eye to the herpes virus. When the eye ruptures like that, the body actually absorbs the eye ball into the socket. It just needed to be sewn closed to prevent future infections. On his right eye, he can see, but his eye lashes were turned inward (called entropion) and it is a painful condition. Surgery corrects it to have the eye lashes grow out. He is doing so well and happy to be free of that condition. He can now see since his eye lashes are no longer preventing him from opening the eye and seeing.
We’ve gotten questions asking if we will still be giving meds on Christmas and New Years Eve to those cats that get daily meds. The answer is ABSOLUTELY. We’ll be here to give meds. We’ll feed them as normal. We’ll even scoop their litter boxes! We may even sneak them all some treats and chicken!
Pania and Nyota are both doing very well after their recent health issues. It’s amazing what medicine and love can do to make things all better!
Murph is doing much better as his mouth continues to heal from his teeth extractions. Rumor has it, he’s been seen riding the big wheel when no one is watching!
Other Updates:
The two cats that were dumped on the FFRC grounds a few weeks ago (the ‘car’ cats) finally have names!
Spark is the dilute calico who hid in the underside of Megan’s car. She is about 8 months old.
Noelle is an orange kitty that bolted from underneath Megan’s car. She is almost 2 years old.
Both cats are healthy (they both had fleas and ear mites but are now flea/mite free).
Both Megan and Lynette went to Humane Ohio on Tuesday to take a tour with other humane society’s. It was nice to network and now they have some contacts that they can reach out to for advice and sharing of information.
We learned that we are doing really good things here! We aren’t perfect but everyday we learn and do better.
On Friday, we had a visit from the director of one of the other rescues and she took a tour of FFRC. It’s nice to chat with other rescues, it can only help the cats.
We had a last minute flash sale this week that raised $1,515.
Holds:
Mr. Mustachio! He’ll be going on Monday, December 23, to the family that adopted Dark Cat (Cheesecake) and Bodie.
Other:
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain.
Jack
