Help Lucky Cat To Get Well And Relocate Him To His New Home

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We will not see Lucky Cat put back on the street, but his board and lodgings, continuing healthcare at the vets and eventually when he is well, his animal passport mean that the costs are mounting.

He is just a street cat and I am sure there are those who think his rescue is extravagant, but he is also just a kitten, a baby, who deserves a nice life. We couldn't abandon him; after looking into his little eyes just once we knew we had to help.

This is Lucky Cat And He Needs Your Help

This is Lucky when we found him, lost and alone, an abandoned street kitten only about five or six weeks old.

He looked like he was dead when we first saw him but lethargic, dehydrated and malnourished, he still found the strength to look at me and give me a little meow before lying his head back down again.

In Spain there are many wild cats, and often you will see the mother with her litter. Little Lucky Cat had nobody to love and protect him, he was trying to survive on scraps, with nobody showing him how to hunt and being so ill he was very close to death.

The instance I looked at his poor bony little face as he came up to be fussed I felt connected and knew we needed to help him get better. My wife and I both decided that he needed to go to the see the vet so we could try to get him well whilst we were on our holiday.

The first day we found him it was Sunday 16th September 2007, our wedding anniversary, we went out and bought some kitten food so he at least had something until we could get him to the vet the next day.

I went to the vet to speak about him, and I had to register him with his name so, unoriginally but aptly, I named him Lucky.

That evening, we took little Lucky Cat to see the vet. He was examined and weighed, his weight was only 950 grammes, he had problems with his eyes, ear mites, fleas, worms, breathing problems, he was seriously underweight and dehydrated but, despite all this he tolerated the vetenary examination and treatments that day without clawing, biting or scratching.

We returned to the apartment, I sat in the back of the car with Lucky, who just curled up on my lap as I fussed him. He had an abundance of medication each day. He had an appetite stimulant and vitamins every morning, antibiotics morning and night, ear drops and having his ears cleaned morning and night, and three different types of eye drops three times a day.

Even after two days he started to look better. We kept him in with us at night and, if the weather was bad, during the day. If we were around he liked to sit near us, the picture left is two days after his firsts vets visit, by the pool area of the apartment.

In the meantime along with all the treatment we were, with the help of some friends in Spain, desperately trying to find some kind people to offer Lucky a home, but sadly this was not going anywhere. We could not face putting him back on the street (even if well) as we didn't think he would survive.

We bought toys for him in order to help him to learn how to hunt, just in case. In desperation we started phoning around to see if we could get him taken by a cat sanctuary before we went home but that was also to no avail.

With time running out, our only option was to find a good cattery with isolation facilities who would take him in and keep up his treatments, taking him to the vet as necessary, and pay for his board and lodging and vetenary treatments. We could then get him a passport and get him brought back to England to live the rest of his life in comfort, being looked after.

Since we have had to come home Lucky has still been continuously treated. Shortly after he went into the cattery he had to spend nearly a week in the animal hospital as he was so wheezy and clogged up with mucus that he couldn't eat or drink. He had to spend some time each day in an antibiotic infused nebuliser.

He has now doubled his body weight to a healthy 1.8kg and has been cleared of the nasties, feline HIV and Leukemia, but he has been diagnosed with a strain of cat flu. The vet has told us he could have a long road to recovery ahead which could be a few months more of treatment and vet visits before we can even start to think about getting him a passport.

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