S’mores was just 6 weeks old when someone accidentally dropped a cat carrier on her head, nearly killing her. After the accident, she could not move, and suffered serious brain damage. For three months, the poor kitten could do nothing but lie there, unresponsive, with a feeding tube.
But rescuers refused to give up on S’mores, and continued to give her the care she needed until she could finally walk and eat on her own again.
S’mores is now two years old, but is only the size of an 8-week-old kitten. This is as big as she will ever get, due to the accident.
Lucky S’mores has been adopted by one of the founders of Odd Cat Sanctuary, who loves and her just the way she is. She may be small, but S’mores is able to play and enjoy life as much as any other cat.
Plus, this tiny cat has the sweetest meow you may have ever heard.
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Kudos to the Odd Cat Sanctuary and its founders.
Truly a humanitarian effort for a kitty with special needs
My cat, Christoph, who is going on 20 years old now is lying next to me, purring, as I type this. He has many health problems, but the first one was that he was deprived oxygen when he was born, and when I got him and his brother, Truman, at 8 weeks, his brother weighed 2.5 pounds and Christoph only weighed 1.25 pounds. He was so small, Northshore didn’t have a collar that would fit him. They had to make new notches in one, just to get it to stay around his neck. They told me if he stopped eating, to bring him to the vet immediately. But that has yet to happen, even with his current health problems. I don’t know what kind-hearted person helped him through those first eight weeks before he came into my life, but I grateful for them every day.
That said, Christoph is a survivor. He has the strongest will to live. When he was one, he started having seizures. At eight they got worse and started coming in clusters, so we had to put him on phenobarbitol. We took him to a veterinary neurologist who gave him an MRI. Turns out he was half brain dead. He’d always been a little uncoordinated and slow, and this was why.
To go under for the MRI though, they had to check his heart and they found a murmur. So one echocardiogram later, we found out he had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Which for cats usually means a six-month lifespan. We put him on heart medication, and 10 years later he’s still going strong.
6 years ago we found a tumor on his thyroid. So he got blasted with radiation, Which got rid of the tumor but killed his thyroid, so now he’s on thyroxin. Without treatment, he would have died, but even with he was only supposed to have 2-3 years. But again, he’s a survivor.
5 years ago he was diagnosed with some sort of renal disease. I don’t think it’s CRF, because his kidney values have held steady, and after we put him on a special diet, his brother Truman was diagnosed with actual CRF and he died three years ago. i miss him every day. He was such a good big brother, always Christoph’s protector. My husband used to joke that Truman gave Christoph so many of his lives he had none left for himself.
Losing Truman was hard on all of us, and Christoph was never the same after, none of us were.
Right now we are trying to find a balance between treating his heart while keeping his kidneys going. His chest cavity has filled with fluid a couple times, but each time it gets drained, he survives and is up walking around within a few days, His vets say his prognosis is guarded because no one knows what to make of the little black and white cat who just wants to purr and live.
He never stops purring though, even at the vet. I think this only annoys them when they are trying to listen to his heart, and his engine just won’t stop. He acts like anyone who is willing to pet him is his best friend. And unlike most cats, his capacity for pets and cuddles is pretty much infinite. I knew from the moment I met him that this was a love that would last forever, He crawled up my shirt in a room full of barking dogs and fell asleep on my chest. I loved him and his brother from the very beginning, and I don’t regret anything I’ve done for either of them
It sounds like the cat in the story has a will to live and I wish him many happy years.
What a beautiful story of surviving against all odds. She deserves everything life brings. May she she live a long, happy and carefree life. You go girl.
nice! but listen up guys! let’s learn to conjugate to verb ‘to lie’
I LIE NOW, I AM LYING NOW, I HAVE LAIN HERE FOR THE LAST HOUR, BUT YESTERDAY I LAY IN BED ALL DAY.
]NOTICE #LAY# IS USED ONLY IN THE PAST TENSE!
the command form is: fido, go LIE down!! john, lie down!
then there is the verb TO LAY: THIS IS WHAT CHICKENS DO, AND WHAT YOU DO TO AN OBJECT: THE CHICKEN LAY AN EGG AND THIS WEEK THEY HAVE LAID 6 EGGS. (remember, people only ‘lay’ in the past!) command form is again LAY, AS IN PLEASE L AY ANOTHER EGG FOR ME!
or, i lay THE BOOK \(object) ON THE TABLE, I LAY THE SILVERWARE ON THE TABLE, I LAY THE BABY IN ITS BED AND NOW THE DOG IS LYING NEXT TO HER. YESTERDAY THE DOG LAY NEXT TO THE BABY ALL DAY. I HAVE LAIN ON THE FLOOR FOR THE LAST HOUR. -PRESENT PROGRSSIVE TENSE; SOMETHING CONTINUING . I AM LYING HERE WATCHING THEM.
REMEMBER, PEOPLE ONLY ‘LAY’ IN THE PAST, EG, YESTERDAY I LAY DOWN FOR 15 MINUTES.
WHEN A DR TELLS YOU TO LAY DOWN, CORRECT HIM/HER! WHEN A PERSON TELLS A DOG TO LAY DOWN, CORRECT THAT PERSON!
i am an english teadher. good little grammar book: eats shoots and leaves.
also: you know to say she gave the cake to ME. DO NOT CHANGE ME TO ‘I’ WHEN YOU ADD ANOTHER PERSON, EG ‘she gave the cake to ellen and ME, NOT ellen and I!!….and not to ‘myself’, either!! if the word ‘ME’ is good enough for the queen, it is good enough for you, too, lol!
You completely missed the point of the story.
By the way it’s teacher not teadher!!
What the hell?
Who asked for an English lesson? !
And for an English ‘teadher’ you make a lot of errors!
OMG LADY, RIGHTEOUS MUCH, GOOD GRIEF!!!! WE ARE ALL HERE BECAUSE WE LOVE ANIMALS, SO TAKE YOUR LITTLE ENGLISH LASHING ELSEWHERE!!!! AND BTW, YOU ERRONEOUSLY STARTED MOST OF YOUR SENTENCES WITH LOWER CASE LETTERS, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS OTHER “ENGLISH” ERRORS!!!