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Cat

Cat's Breed
American Shorthair

Mixed with Another Cat Breed?
Don't Know

Gender
Female

Energy
3

Intelligence
9

Friendliness
10

Playfulness
5

What I Like to Eat

Right now it breaks my heart ...... but I'll be back to tell you these things about her...

Angel is sick right now.. she has FIV (like Hiv) ..
she has a mouth sore on her lower jaw that grows.. I took her in to see what it was, and they still don't know.

First they said that she could have mouth cancer, which is actually common for cats..
.......though they don't warn us of that.
But after taking a blood test and testing her for all things ~
the Dr. Stopped the planned surgery to take a piece of the lump and analyze it to see if it was cancer...
she told me that Angel has FIV and also an enlarged heart..
she took chest x-rays and doesn't know why her heart is enlarged..
she doesn't know if the lump is cancerous.. she doesn't want to do the surgery
because she thinks angel will not wake up from the anesthetic sleep......

..... so I'm left with nothing to do to help my baby.
I'd like to plan to do the surgery to see what that lump is on the day that she is giving up.. I hope that day never comes........ Yet if it does, that is the most I can do for her...

She gave me antibiotics, but they seemed to make it worse.. and Angel won't eat them anymore.
She gave me pain medicine and that helps a lot... for 8 hrs she is without pain.
She doesn't seem to be in much pain .. just very uncomfortable.. she paws at it like a muzzle..if anything.
((( of course catnip on everything has Angel pretty happy too. )))
Now Angel comes out at night and her lump has become longer..
I have no idea what to do but to wait.

I think I'm losing my baby.

The Dr also said that the FIV is also very common and very contagious amoung cats.
No one else can get it.. no dogs or other animals.. only other cats...
I watch my Ani very carefully..
but since they've grown up they really don't play fight anymore...
this is really good because one bite from Angel and Ani would most likely be sick as well.

I don't know how this happened either...

In the 13 years I have had her she did not go out alone and never for long,
she was never bitten by a stray and neither was Ani... both of them were extremely protected!!
I just wonder if the small time she was a stray did this.
Did she have FIV for 13 years?
And we had no reason to ask for a blood test!

They should make blood tests like that mandatory for each new animal a vet takes in.
Not to mention humans...
where are our std and hiv mandatory tests?

I recently learned that I have HPV.. also a deadly virus.
I go in for checks every 3 months and HPV is only passed to women.
I had only been with my husband in that way, so... he carried it to me. My first.
Don't take this stuff light. He told me that he had tests.. 2 in fact, and I trusted his word for it..
when he said he was clean. I didn't ask for any paperwork from the doctors. But I should have.
I had pre-cancer cells inside me on the back of my cervix when I left him... he was abusive.. so..
...yeah... I was gone.
I went to the Doctor to test myself for any Std's before I ever dated another man... to be careful.
I got the call on my birthday May 22. And surgery to get the cells off of me soon after.
So now I go for testing every 3 mo all because of one man.

I'm telling all this... because I guess.. well I want all of you to be careful !

Make sure you ask for the paperwork your "to be" lover has from their doctor..
..you never know what someone may lie about. And if you do stretch the truth.. c'mon don't do it.
It was a total shock that he would infect me and not even think about it twice...
My Dr said however that many tests cannot detect HPV in a Male. They are working on finding it.
So maybe he did not know. I don't know either way. Doctors tell me that female sexual health is
still a mystery and that they just really started learning more in the 70's. That is not very long.

As for your babies... you kitties...

... get blood tests for them as soon as they come into your life!!!

Yes there is medicine to keep the FIV at bay.. just as there is for humans and with medicine..
who knows how long she would have lived.... I don't know now how many days she has left..
..... and she TRULY is an Angel....

It's very hard.. but Angel makes it all easier with her carefree attitude..
she simply deals with the lump and she drinks out of her Paw now that she cant lick up water...
she eats softer foods instead of her catchow...
She is a survivor and as long as she wants to be here with me..
that is how long she will stay alive with me.

And I will always have her in me....

Please do pray or send your energies if you've read this........

Your love can come through the wires.......

Where we'd go if I got to choose the destination of our next vacation

Angel is happy no matter where she is... so long as she feels safe.

How I came to be in the care of my owner

Angel was a stray... she came to me on one of the worst days of my life.
I was 17.. and I was crying pretty bad on the couch in the living room.. alone in the house.
I was praying to keep my heart safe... and I said to God..
"Where are my angels?!"
.... I knew he was with me.. and I knew I would be alright.. it just felt as if everything bad that could walk
into my life was doing just that ... I told him that I wanted my guardian angels and I could not find
them I didn't feel them...

About 4-5 minutes later I went to the front door...

I look out windows or doors to gain my peace sometimes...
I looked out on the snowy yard and in just a few seconds I noticed something... a lump of snow behind the bush
on the left of the door... wait.... no....... it was a beautiful white cat...
so cold and scared.
I went carefully out there and knew I had to get her inside, she was in the same shape I was that day.
It's strange.... on the left of the door there was a big window and the couch was in front of that window.
I was crying right on that couch... on the other side of the window was the big long Bush...
Angel was hiding behind that bush... we were only seperated by that pane of glass..
.. its so strange.. she was behind me the entire time.

I knew she was my Angel.

I was crying and smiling as I got out the liversausage and tempted her closer and closer..
she was so hungry... and she came.... then I got her inside... she was afraid until I gave her a warm bath..
.... yes Angel Lovvvves baths...
She was soooooooooooo happy to be clean it was just like she was smiling all over...
but you could tell she was still unsure of things... so I wrapped her up..
I swaddled her like a baby.. (she let me!)
And I laid with her and sat with her in my arms swaddled... singing and telling her that she would
never leave my side. Angel stayed in my arms for 3 hours.. no kidding... she slept there..

She has been here with me in my life no matter what since then..

Angel truly is just that..... an angel.

If you cry she will come to you.

If you have to many tears she licks them away.

She never does anything mean or bad or sneaky.

She never complains or gets finicky.. she loves unconditionally.

She loves the dogs.. she kisses Ani (antichrist) even though Ani doesnt return the favor lol.

She is the most loving little being I think I will ever know.

Completely selfless.. she even comes to you by all 3 names..
Angel or Cat or Angel Marilyn.
I named her with the middle name marilyn because she is so kind and also a bit pudgy... but just enough (womanly)

She will sleep at your side but only on nights you seem to really need it.
Now a days she comes when she needs us.. and we love her to death.. everyone that met her has loved her.

Please pray 4 my baby.. my angel has longer to live.... its not right that a sore in her mouth could kill her...
the Dr said that the FIV could have caused it and that.. if it gets bad she wont eat or drink...
she is still eating and drinking now..
I just pray to god that she has longer.

I can't believe someone would kick her out and let her be a stray.. never come for her..
never ask the pounds and the police about her. Nothing.
They did not know who they had.

Now to think that she must have caught the FIV back when she was running Stray.... makes me so mad.
How can people be so cruel to animals....
... she is no cat... she is a pure Angel.
I think we should watch our ways..
........you never know when you are in the presence of an angel.

xxxxx oooooooooooooooo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx oooooooooooooo

much LOVE to you and your babies.............

I should probably put a link here.....

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on a scale that has never been seen in terms of AIDS.
The amount of people that died in the Tsunami die each day there.
...... help out just by adding your voice ....
(they ask for no money.)

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BONO CAT lolz

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