Three weeks ago, I had a hungry visitor that I posted about here. About a week ago, I got a message to say that she was deathly ill and a day later, she was euthanized due to severe Panleukopenia, a viral illness that's very common in shelters and deadly for kittens and a serious illness for adult cats. Panleukopenia is also mostly preventable, with vaccination.
one of the other shelter cats
When I was visiting the cats, there were 4 other newcomers in the same area and I was told today that all of them had died, also of severe Panleukopenia.
This is the question that shelter owners face: to turn away cats because they are too full and other shelters will probably euthanize, or to accept cats even though you are overflowing and have a history of disease within your population? I know that this woman means well but all the good intentions in the world can't save cats if you cannot keep them quarantined for long enough to vaccinate them.
I feel terrible for having allowed her to go there, because it was a death warrant. I couldn't take her home, because I already have five cats and I couldn't leave her on the street. What I do know is that I'll never let another cat go there.
May all the cats go to heaven! No more suffering! Peace and healing to all cats.
she didnt sin, definitely she's in heaven now.
i feel your pain, had another story with diff. detailes and same ending. we adopted a little kitty on the street, vaccinated her, and it died nearly in 10 days right behind our faces, when was playing on a chair with a little rope. she already became a beloved member of our family. it was a momentari rediculous death, no one to blame. we buried her, it was winter. this sort of things damn happens. and I have no general solution how to act. dont look, turn your face off, when you see such a kittie thrown to the street? idk. :/
Yes, you are right. But I could also try and make other arrangements that would prevent cats from going there in the first place. I have always tried to do so
Fais ce que dois, advienne, que pourra... (c)
an all-time universal philosophical consolation
Awful. The poor animals. Nobody will take care of them. Cat shelters with qualified personnel are probably few and they have to live on the streets.
:(
Tears in my eyes reading this.....
The 5 black cloud ferals (4 now) that we made a sanctuary shed for and TNR'd. They came from an overpopulated situation where the lady next door had good intentions, she had over 30 in her house. And all the problems that come with that.
My BestFurrFriend Sammi Jo came from that mess next door.
I just wish we could rescue them all ya know....?
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Very sorry for this preventable tragedy. She was a beauty..