Charlie is in the care of Canterbury and District CP, Kent.
Charlie is a loveable soul… He has only recently come into our care, but he has been through a lot.. We were told of Charlie in early March, he was a stray that was being fed by a lovely man who took him under his wing. Unfortunately the elderly man died in early February, but Charlie still stayed around his home waiting to be fed and stroked.. Everyone assumed Charlie belonged to someone as they had seem him around the area, but only when his condition deteriorated did people think that maybe Charlie was once again out on his own.
A concerned neighbour called us and we managed to get Charlie in the vets in the next few days, we didn’t have any room to accommodate him so he stayed at the vet over a weekend where they discovered he was drinking quite a lot. Being concerned, they did some blood work and discovered that Charlie was diabetic and was very poorly, his blood sugar levels being off the scale. We quickly got him sorted and stabilised with insulin and was well enought to come into foster care a few days later.
Charlie could of downhill fast without prompt veterinary care. At the moment he is on daily injections that he takes very well. Charlie goes for a check up in a week time to see if the insulin dose is fine, but he will need checkups at vets every few months (hard to tell at the moment how often) to check his blood levels etc.
We realise that taking on a diabetic cat can be seen as a huge commitment but we couldn’t just give up on him. He is a lovely affectionate boy that gets on with other cats and even well behaved dogs. He is a real fusspot and enjoys being stroked and made a huge fuss of and would love the attention anyone can bestow upon him. He does not seem to perturbed by children in fact he laps it up.
We reckon he is around 10rs old, but he acts much younger, he has already been neutered and will start on his vaccination course as soon as the vets are happy with his diabetes, we will also get him chipped.
Can you give Charlie a second chance of a happy life despite his current health problems? We will give you all the advice and support you need and would be prepared if to help with ongoing veterinary bills associated with his condition.
I am posting this now as finding homes for diabetic cats dont come along that often and although he will need to be vet checked out once more at our vets to make sure all is well, if anyone out their has seen this and wants to find out more then please get in touch via my email.
Of course anyone with experience of dealing with a diabetic puss would help alot, or maybe you are diabetic yourself. You would need to have a routine whereby you were around to make sure that he has his jabs, so anyone with unsocial work hours or works away from home probably would not be able to cope with his daily injections.
We ideally would wish to rehome him in the local area but if the right home came up and we could organise a homecheck we would be willing to rehome him outside our area (we may need the co operation of another CP branch or rescue organisation to help us do this). If he was rehomed outside our area we would hope that any vet used by the new adopters would be sympathetic to CP aims and would be willing to work with us in making sure that Charlie got the best of care in the future.
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