Comments on: Smokey Boy http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy Supporting Almerimar Strays Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:54:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-39 Chris Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:56:00 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-39 EXCELLENT NEWS ........ Smokey Boy has a Foster home identified in Germany and will be going with the next transport. Well done Sands and Pam :-) EXCELLENT NEWS …….. Smokey Boy has a Foster home identified in Germany and will be going with the next transport.

Well done Sands and Pam :-)

]]> By: Chris http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-35 Chris Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:08:20 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-35 That sounds great. Hopefully time and care will sort his leg out, and he would certainly make someone a lovely pet as he has a superb nature! That sounds great. Hopefully time and care will sort his leg out, and he would certainly make someone a lovely pet as he has a superb nature!

]]> By: Sands http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-34 Sands Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:35:59 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-34 Just back from the vet with Smokey Boy and Pam and it is really good news!!! Smokey Boy is putting on weight and isn't carrying any illness that he could spread, so the vet is certain that he will be fit to travel to Germany on the 12th December. Pam can keep him until then and continue the excellent care she is providing. His leg hasn't got any worse and as he gets stronger and fitter he is using it more and more ........... jumping around, exploring etc. It bears some weight; he is just not very mobile. There is still a slim hope that he may get more feeling back, but for now he is coping well, seems contented, and should have a good life as long as he is an indoor cat. It may be that it will get better in the long term but we wont know for a long time, but the vet says that if she is a caring home and doesn't go out her leg should be fine. The only really long term risk is that she gets ulcers, but that in itself wouldn't be a big problem, and with care shouldn't be an issue. So .......... excellent news if we can find her a home in Germany she will be able to go! Just back from the vet with Smokey Boy and Pam and it is really good news!!!

Smokey Boy is putting on weight and isn’t carrying any illness that he could spread, so the vet is certain that he will be fit to travel to Germany on the 12th December. Pam can keep him until then and continue the excellent care she is providing.

His leg hasn’t got any worse and as he gets stronger and fitter he is using it more and more ……….. jumping around, exploring etc. It bears some weight; he is just not very mobile.

There is still a slim hope that he may get more feeling back, but for now he is coping well, seems contented, and should have a good life as long as he is an indoor cat.

It may be that it will get better in the long term but we wont know for a long time, but the vet says that if she is a caring home and doesn’t go out her leg should be fine. The only really long term risk is that she gets ulcers, but that in itself wouldn’t be a big problem, and with care shouldn’t be an issue.

So ………. excellent news if we can find her a home in Germany she will be able to go!

]]> By: Pam Roberts http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-32 Pam Roberts Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:29:02 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-32 Smokey has had his last antibiotic this am and I locked all the other animals out and he has had a wander around the rest of the flat - dragging his leg I am afraid - but it doesn't seem to bother him unduly so dont think he is in pain. Smokey has had his last antibiotic this am and I locked all the other animals out and he has had a wander around the rest of the flat – dragging his leg I am afraid – but it doesn’t seem to bother him unduly so dont think he is in pain.

]]> By: Pam Roberts http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-25 Pam Roberts Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:07:53 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-25 Smokey has settled into my Computer Room, choice of beds,choice of food and ledge to look out onto the golf course.He is wafer thin but is tucking into his food and doing a lot of stretching of his poor wasted leg - loves to be stroked and brushed and is very voluble, he is taking his antibiotics without any trouble and goes back to Begonia on Friday evening.Would love to integrate him with my other cats but dont think he would fare too well at the moment, certainly he would have a problem with my dog Rufus.He can stay with me until Dec.19th as my son and daughter in law arrive with their 6 month old daughter for a week over Christmas.I am hoping to find him a foster home for the week Dec.19th-28th whilst they are here - any volunteers???He can come back after that date and I will carry on trying to get him back to a normal weight and using his back leg - he is a really lovely gentle cat. Smokey has settled into my Computer Room, choice of beds,choice of food and ledge to look out onto the golf course.He is wafer thin but is tucking into his food and doing a lot of stretching of his poor wasted leg – loves to be stroked and brushed and is very voluble, he is taking his antibiotics without any trouble and goes back to Begonia on Friday evening.Would love to integrate him with my other cats but dont think he would fare too well at the moment, certainly he would have a problem with my dog Rufus.He can stay with me until Dec.19th as my son and daughter in law arrive with their 6 month old daughter for a week over Christmas.I am hoping to find him a foster home for the week Dec.19th-28th whilst they are here – any volunteers???He can come back after that date and I will carry on trying to get him back to a normal weight and using his back leg – he is a really lovely gentle cat.

]]> By: A Weekend With The Cats! | AlmerimarLife http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-23 A Weekend With The Cats! | AlmerimarLife Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:31:03 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-23 [...] you know we have been looking after Smokey Boy who has made some really good improvements and is now down in Pam’s apartment getting some [...] [...] you know we have been looking after Smokey Boy who has made some really good improvements and is now down in Pam’s apartment getting some [...]

]]> By: Chris http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-20 Chris Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:27:34 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-20 Good for Pam taking him in to foster. He certainly has got better, and loves company so I reckon that he will come on leaps and bounds when he is warm, in a home and getting attention. Good for Pam taking him in to foster. He certainly has got better, and loves company so I reckon that he will come on leaps and bounds when he is warm, in a home and getting attention.

]]> By: Chris http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-17 Chris Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:53:40 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-17 He is certainly getting stronger. He is eating well, purring when you hold him, and accepts his medicine without any fuss. He is using his bad leg more to scratch himself, and I am convinced that he is pulling it away more when we massage it ..... but that may be wishful thinking. He isn't folding the end of the paw under as much either and in general seems to be improving. He certainly has had enough of the cage and wants company, so now we need to try and find a foster home for him. With some love and attention he has every chance of making it to Germany in three weeks time so it wouldn't be a long foster that was required ..... He is certainly getting stronger. He is eating well, purring when you hold him, and accepts his medicine without any fuss.

He is using his bad leg more to scratch himself, and I am convinced that he is pulling it away more when we massage it ….. but that may be wishful thinking. He isn’t folding the end of the paw under as much either and in general seems to be improving.

He certainly has had enough of the cage and wants company, so now we need to try and find a foster home for him.

With some love and attention he has every chance of making it to Germany in three weeks time so it wouldn’t be a long foster that was required …..

]]> By: Chris http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-16 Chris Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:53 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-16 He is a fighter!!! He is such a mild mannered cat. I may be being overly optimistic but having gone out earlier to massage his bad leg I think he is starting to get some feeling back in it. He has started to pull it away when you touch it, and he is laying it flat more than he used to. Fingers crossed. It has only been three days ..... He is a fighter!!! He is such a mild mannered cat. I may be being overly optimistic but having gone out earlier to massage his bad leg I think he is starting to get some feeling back in it. He has started to pull it away when you touch it, and he is laying it flat more than he used to.

Fingers crossed. It has only been three days …..

]]> By: Chris http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/smokey-boy/comment-page-1#comment-12 Chris Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:19:56 +0000 http://almerimarlifestrays.com/blog/?p=86#comment-12 I have just got back in and seen him in the cage and he seems very gentile indeed, infact Mori went and sniffed at him and didn't hiss at all which is pretty amazing. Hopefully some love and affection and a good diet will sort him out, but if it doesn't a little amputation will still leave a very loving cat!!! Fingers crossed ..... I have just got back in and seen him in the cage and he seems very gentile indeed, infact Mori went and sniffed at him and didn’t hiss at all which is pretty amazing.

Hopefully some love and affection and a good diet will sort him out, but if it doesn’t a little amputation will still leave a very loving cat!!!

Fingers crossed …..

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