Had so little time lately that I've only just caught up with this thread again.....I too watched the bionic vet and Oscar was amazing.....I cried my eyes out the first time he got his little 'cork' feet and went running off and climbing into all the places he shouldn't have gone.....and the surgeon was just SOOOO lovely with him that made me cry too
If only I could find a little miracle like that for Mikey
Shirley thank you for your kind comments....I generally try and post postively on the forums but it has been hard at times (and still is!lol) juggling time and still trying to give Mikey a good quality of life and comapnionship, but you have seen me and yes at times I get very tired......
BUT...Mikey is Mikey and we have such a special bond that I could never contemplate not keeping him alive. I do fully understand people not wanting to watch the videos......although as Mary says, I think the ones of him on his harness running around like a normal cat are just so heartwarming, not upsetting at all.....
The first time
I saw him was in the vets.....he had been in there for 5 weeks and no one was making the decision on whether he should be pts or kept alive and given more time. I asked to see him and was taken through to the back where they popped him onto the floor and he just sat there with his little back legs poking straight out between his front ones and he started to shuffle about having a good old sniff at the other animals in the cages. I rather embarassingly cried my eyes out in front of the nurses...and at that point I thought how could we have kept this poor little boy alive! I went home and cried my eyes out some more at the thought of him being kept in the vets pen...messing on himself and not being able to move away from it....and thought if we do make the decision to pts then how awful that he'd end his days having been cooped up for weeks at the vets. So I decided to go and get him out of there!I just felt that even if I only kept him for a week or two and the decision was made to pts then at least his last memories would have been looking out of the pen at the grass and the sky and smelling the fresh air...and having lots of cuddle and playtime.
I'll never forget the day I collected him. It was a sunday morning and when I got him home he was
filthy as they hadn't had time to clean him up.....and I can also remember thinking 'oh my god Heather what have you gone and done...how are you ever going to cope????!!!' Hence my thread started on cat chat as I was just desperate to know how I was going to manage and was after any advice I could get.......but the rest is history! He himself showed such a fighting spirit and a will to live that I just felt I owed it to him not to give up on him.....and slowly between the two of us we have figured out a way forward that hopefully gives him a good quality of life.....he's certainly happy, healthy (and clean!) and for as long as he is I shan't give up on him and will continue to do as much as I can for him including trying to find him a proper home.
The only thing I feel guilty about is not being able to give him as much time as he deserves....he's actually pretty easy to look after now.....but its finding the time to give him as much company as he wants....and the time to get him on his harness running in the garden. I make sure I do several things with him every day, but he really needs someone who can do these things with him not just once every day but several times really....and just be there with him as he loves having company......as you can see from the pics :-)
Don't get me wrong.....I don't like to see him dragging his legs...but somehow he's got such a big personality that when you meet him people see beyond the disabilty (just like we do with humans!). I watch him sometimes from the upstairs window and I see him lounging on the scratching platforms in his outdour pen....lying in his hammock having a good ol' wash....chasing the flies and midges.....laying in the shade under the bushes.....and at all those times he is
exactly the same as a normal cat.....its only when he's moving between doing those things that he's different......but he can still do it on his own.....so he has his independance...he just does it different to the norm!lol
Here's some pics taken tonight of him having a cuddle with me on the sofa......I think you would say he's a happy contented little boy
