MommaOfMuse
Member Since 2010
Thought I would just start posting a daily condo over here for Autumn since we seem to be hanging out here a lot doing what I can to help out on dosing for those that do post over here. Although as we hopefully get closer and closer to her OTJ party after her dental on Wednesday I will probably start posting daily again in Levemir and link it back to here or vice versa..lol
To start with for those that don't know Autumn's back story. Autumn was originally named LuLu and was listed with DCIN as available for rehoming as her previous owner couldn't treat her due to that owner's own physical health. I watched her for several months hoping someone else would adopted her, but as time wore on and no one was stepping up to take her into their heart and home and give her the care she needed my DH and I began discussing if we could take her in as we already at that time had two diabetics, Maxwell who was OTJ and Musette was was flirting with remission as well, but as well as Musette would do she would also suddenly reverse course for no reason. Autumn's original owner had also told DCIN that she was only 5 years old. It was breaking our hearts to think of a mere baby suffering from a very treatable disease and not getting the care she needed, plus the majority of our civies where in her reported age range, so if we could restore her to health she would have lots of playmates.
So the decision was made, we would offer Autumn a home, but when I contacted her case worker there was another interested in her as well so we had to wait to see which of us would get her, as it turned out we were offering a purrever home (cause once they cross the threshhold and I feed them they are here to stay) and the other was only a foster home...so finally the news comes back, we have a new daughter on her way. Now when we adopted both Maxwell and Musette DCIN had flown them to us, well Musette had a little hiccup called a flooded airport so she flew to Denver and was ground transported from there to us in Nebraska, but with Autumn it wasn't going to be so easy, she was now not strong enough to take the stress of flying, she needed to make it from MN to NE on the ground. With lightning speed the amazing folks at DCIN found drivers to take legs of the trip and hand her off to get her here in record time.
Autumn arrived in our arms on April 28th 2012, with a BG of 528, with moderate ketones, and so matted I couldn't even tent and shoot without shaving a patch off her scruff, couldn't even get the scissors into the mats on her flank to use that site to shoot. Over the years of being in rescue I have seem some horribly matted long haired cats, but nothing like this poor girl. She was literally in a living straight jacket of her own fur. She also arrived with sub-q fluids which was a darn good thing because she was so dehydrated that her ears didn't even feel like ears, but like pieces of dried out leather. I literally sat with her in the bathroom the first night and bawled for hours as I tried to clear away enough mats to find her skin. As I worked with tiny nail scissors and a seam ripper stuff began to fall out of her mats, whole kernels of seed corn, burrs, dead beetles, and yet Autumn laid quietly in my lap and offered weak kisses and faint purrs. I think she already knew I was going to try to help her, she didn't know me at all but she was so willing to trust that help had finally arrived.
We've come a long ways to get where we are today, but we still have a ways to go...will she ever go OTJ I don't know but I do know as long as she continues to try I will continue to try to get her there, and if she doesn't who cares, today she is healthy, happy and well loved, even if she is no where close to being the 5 year old she was suppose to be when I adopted her, she is actually closer to 15, but she is grand old lady that grew up as a barn cat but will spend her golden years as a pampered housecat.
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
To start with for those that don't know Autumn's back story. Autumn was originally named LuLu and was listed with DCIN as available for rehoming as her previous owner couldn't treat her due to that owner's own physical health. I watched her for several months hoping someone else would adopted her, but as time wore on and no one was stepping up to take her into their heart and home and give her the care she needed my DH and I began discussing if we could take her in as we already at that time had two diabetics, Maxwell who was OTJ and Musette was was flirting with remission as well, but as well as Musette would do she would also suddenly reverse course for no reason. Autumn's original owner had also told DCIN that she was only 5 years old. It was breaking our hearts to think of a mere baby suffering from a very treatable disease and not getting the care she needed, plus the majority of our civies where in her reported age range, so if we could restore her to health she would have lots of playmates.
So the decision was made, we would offer Autumn a home, but when I contacted her case worker there was another interested in her as well so we had to wait to see which of us would get her, as it turned out we were offering a purrever home (cause once they cross the threshhold and I feed them they are here to stay) and the other was only a foster home...so finally the news comes back, we have a new daughter on her way. Now when we adopted both Maxwell and Musette DCIN had flown them to us, well Musette had a little hiccup called a flooded airport so she flew to Denver and was ground transported from there to us in Nebraska, but with Autumn it wasn't going to be so easy, she was now not strong enough to take the stress of flying, she needed to make it from MN to NE on the ground. With lightning speed the amazing folks at DCIN found drivers to take legs of the trip and hand her off to get her here in record time.
Autumn arrived in our arms on April 28th 2012, with a BG of 528, with moderate ketones, and so matted I couldn't even tent and shoot without shaving a patch off her scruff, couldn't even get the scissors into the mats on her flank to use that site to shoot. Over the years of being in rescue I have seem some horribly matted long haired cats, but nothing like this poor girl. She was literally in a living straight jacket of her own fur. She also arrived with sub-q fluids which was a darn good thing because she was so dehydrated that her ears didn't even feel like ears, but like pieces of dried out leather. I literally sat with her in the bathroom the first night and bawled for hours as I tried to clear away enough mats to find her skin. As I worked with tiny nail scissors and a seam ripper stuff began to fall out of her mats, whole kernels of seed corn, burrs, dead beetles, and yet Autumn laid quietly in my lap and offered weak kisses and faint purrs. I think she already knew I was going to try to help her, she didn't know me at all but she was so willing to trust that help had finally arrived.
We've come a long ways to get where we are today, but we still have a ways to go...will she ever go OTJ I don't know but I do know as long as she continues to try I will continue to try to get her there, and if she doesn't who cares, today she is healthy, happy and well loved, even if she is no where close to being the 5 year old she was suppose to be when I adopted her, she is actually closer to 15, but she is grand old lady that grew up as a barn cat but will spend her golden years as a pampered housecat.
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
