Poppy-Saurus
Meet Miss Poppy!
She and her litter mates were born to a stray mom that had wandered onto a farm. The farm owner realized she was different and couldn’t walk like the other kittens. She reached out to us to see if we could help Poppy and ….. of course we said yes and she joined the herd last Sunday. Poppy is about 4 weeks old and has deformed front legs. Her front legs bend inwards and she stumbles around on her elbows. She is also vision impaired. To what extent, we are not sure but she seems to struggle to see almost everything. She has spent the past week eating, pooping and playing. We saw our primary vet on Monday for an evaluation and she is scheduled for a consultation with orthopedic surgery at AERC in early November. Until then, she will continue to grow and learn how to do “normal” kitten things.
Poppy is feisty! Calico attitude all the way! She bites hard when she is playing and lets you know when she’s not happy. 🤣
Here we go again, another calico girl full of attitude who is going to defy the odds like her big sister Turtle! 🐢 ❤️
Welcome to rescue Poppy-saurus. 🦖
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Team Turtle update:
Turtle continues to improve daily. She loves to play with all the fun toys her fans have sent her. Thank you!
Her last bandage change went great and they were able to change the style of the bandage so it isn’t sewn to her skin anymore. Turtles new bandage started irritating her on Sunday and she can’t wait for her recheck and bandage change on Tuesday. I will post the most recent photo of her wound in the comments. * WARNING* Graphic photo in comments.
Turtle had a good mix of playing and resting this weekend and is ready to take on whatever Monday has to offer.
Thank you for sending Turtle all the toys and supplies! We are so very grateful and appreciate your generosity and continued love and support for Turtle Toot Toots!!
Happy Monday!
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Team Turtle update
Miss Turtle can be such a little bully. 🤣
Of course, she has become accustomed to having her “free time” now and chatters if she is confined and wants to be out. Turtle enjoyed spending a longer time playing with her new friends yesterday afternoon. She loves to try and be the bully of the bunch! Of course, she picks out the smallest and youngest kitten to beat up! She’s learned to choose her victims wisely as there are kittens that are bigger and will put up a fight. She doesn’t like to pick on them too much. 🤣 Apparently she doesn’t like receiving what she dishes out. 🤣
She is so funny and fun to watch. She just loves life and embraces every adventure with confidence and attitude!
This girl is such an inspiration to us! She’s fearless! She’s resilient! She’s strong and as sweet as pie all wrapped up into one adorable bundle of fluff!
Tomorrow is her recheck with Dr Meyer and her friends at AERC. Hoping for more good news!
She did lose a piece of her bandage last night. Guessing it was from all of her rough housing yesterday. Wound looks good and the remaining bandage looks good too so we will see what tomorrow brings.
Keep on turtling on Toot Toots!!
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Oh Henry!
We’d like to introduce Henry! Henry was found outside, cold and crying in distress at 10pm one cold evening. Despite the finders efforts to locate a momma or other litter mates, no others could be found. The finder reached out and we jumped out of bed and went to pick this little guy up. He has been with us for about 9 days already and his eyes aren’t open yet and his umbilical cord just fell off 2 days ago so we suspect he was only 1 day old when he was found. So glad the home owners heard his tiny little cries for help and took the time to search for him in the dark.
Henry is doing really well adjusting to formula and bottle feedings. He loves snuggles and his tummy rubs! If you listen carefully, you can hear his little purrs. ❤️
Sorry for the loud bang. There are about 20 kittens in rescue currently and some were getting into some mischief in the other room when I was taking this video. 🤪
Welcome to rescue life Henry!!! You will never be cold, scared, or alone again little man!
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Team Turtle update:
Turtle had a great day today. She spent most of it playing with her toy and hiding in her box. This afternoon we had the other kittens running around and playing and Turtle looked so sad. She wanted so badly to play. 😞
Despite her needing to be on restricted activity, we decided she also needed some “normal” kitten time and her flower power cone came off and she was released to enjoy playing with the other kittens. She loved it!! She ran back and forth, sometimes chasing the other kittens and sometimes just for the sake of running. 🤣 For being a tripod and missing a big chunk of skin and a gaping wound on her body, she is lightning fast!! I apologize for the bad video. I couldn’t keep up with her.
She also spent a fair amount of that time with her back arched showing all the kitties how “big” she can get. 🤣
It was such a gift to see her having so much fun!!
As you can imagine, Turtle had a lot to say about getting her cone back on and having to go back into her “safe zone” when supervised play time was over. She was NOT happy about it and did a lot of chattering to let us know. This little girl has such a big personality.
If she is feeling good tomorrow, she will have more supervised “free time” to play and run with the other kittens. ❤️
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Team Turtle update
Turtle Toot Toots had a recheck with her surgeon and a bandage change this morning. She did well however, she would not fall asleep with the anesthetic they were giving her. She decided she was going to be a spitfire and fight the anesthetic. 🤣 That’s Turtle for you! The surgeon said she’s being a drug sponge today. 😂
Surgeon said her tissue looks good and they are starting to see some signs of new tissue growth. All her surrounding tissue looks healthy as well so that’s great news!! Turtle was good for her semi sedated bandage change and got to enjoy lots of wet food and churus to keep her still until they were done.
She will return on Thursday for another bandage change. Hopefully, she isn’t being a spitfire and goes to sleep like she’s supposed to.
The preliminary results from the second culture came back and she still has bacteria present but they haven’t identified what type. Her current antibiotic is clearly helping though as the infection hasn’t spread any further and her wound is starting to heal itself!! All good news today!!
Here’s a short video of Turtle once she got home. She ate lunch, went potty and decided to entertain herself and play with her toys. She is such a silly girl. ❤️
Thank you for sending Turtle lots of love today!! We really appreciate you and your continued support!
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Team Turtle update:
Team Turtle update 9/3/24:
Turtle had a really good weekend and is back at Animal Emergency and Referral Center for her bandage change today. Hoping for good news from the surgeon! 🙏
Turtle had to check out the exam room while we waited for the surgical tech to come to check her in. Turtle gets around great on 3 legs, it’s her flower power cone that slows her down. 🤣
I will post an update later once we know more. Send Turtle all the love you can today as she goes under anesthetic for her bandage change.
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Team Turtle update:
Turtle Toot Toots is still doing really well post op. She’s had a good weekend and has been enjoying watching the other kittens play and run around. We moved her from the bathroom to an enclosure in the living room yesterday. She seemed so lonely in the bathroom by herself. She was terrified at first but now is trying to play with the other kittens through the panels of the pen. Soon enough little Turtle!
Turtle hadn’t figured out the litter box up until yesterday. She would go potty on her bed instead but now she’s got it figured out! She did not like the pellet litter so we put regular litter in her box instead and now she’s going potty in there every time. This is great news except it makes it more difficult to keep litter out of her bandage material and on her wound. We have some figuring out to do with that but we are glad she’s finally using the “outhouse”.
She likes to play but it is hard with her cone on. We take the cone off so she can groom and play but she’s getting more naughty with licking her bandage and biting at her sutures. When I try to redirect her she fights me and chatters at me with disapproval. 😂
Listen here little half pint!! She is a very independent girl….thats the calico coming out. 🤣
Turtle is having a nice relaxing day today. Tomorrow is a big day with her recheck and bandage change with her surgeon. 🙏 all goes well and we get a good report from the surgeon.
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Team Turtle cuteness!!
Turtle enjoyed some playtime without her cone this afternoon. She is such a little spitfire! Even though she is more sore today, she still has the drive to want to play a little. She discovered the ball with the jingle bell inside.
Turtle has started putting her head down against her chest when she’s licking an area she isn’t supposed to which makes it very difficult to redirect her. She knows it too! Stinker!
Her new nickname this weekend is Turtle Toot Toots! 😂 No particular reason why, just seems to fit her.
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Team Turtle update: 8/31/24
Turtle had a great night and is doing well today. She is a bit more sore than yesterday but that’s to be expected 2 days post surgery.
Turtle says cleanliness is very important for proper healing! ❤️
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Good morning from Turtle!
She just took a nice long bath to get ready for her upcoming surgery today. She wanted to be nice a clean for her amazing care team at AERC.
Please keep sending Turtle all the prayers and love you can spare today. Today is a very big surgery day and we are hoping all goes well and the surgeon is able to safely and successfully remove all the infected dead tissue from her abdomen and hip area. 🙏
I will update once I hear from the surgeon but until then, 🙏 🙏 🙏!!!
Thank you team Turtle!
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2am Turtle time
Turtle Time:
It’s 2am and Turtle and I are enjoying some quality time. She has to take her pain meds at 2am and we need to make sure she is eating every few hours so Turtle rarely goes more than an hour without someone’s attention. She has been enjoying some supervised bath time and no cone time!! Of course, we had to have a little string time too. Strings are her favorite to play with and it blesses us to see her feeling well enough to want to play a little. She just got these fancy pink shoelaces for being so good at the doctors last week. Shoelaces are perfect because she can’t swallow them and these rounded ones rarely stay tied in a knot when you want them to, so we don’t have to worry as much about her choking herself by getting it wrapped around her neck. And, they are cheap! It’s a win, win! Of course, she is always supervised while playing with them if they aren’t secured to an object. I will try to add some shoelaces to our Amazon wish list for Turtle if anyone wants to send her some shoelace love.
Turtle has her big recheck appointment with her surgeon today. Please send all the prayers you can her way and prayers for the surgeon to know exactly what Turtle needs and how to help her. This poor girl has been through so much and we really want to see her on the right path to healing very soon. 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank you for all the love and support!! We greatly appreciate each and every one of you!!
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String time
Team Turtle Update: Tues. 8/27/24
Turtle had a recheck with our primary vet yesterday to ensure we are doing everything possible to make sure she is progressing as expected. All is progressing as expected however the wound looks much worse as the tissue is dying off and that’s normal. She smells like roadkill. 🤢
Turtle has been eating good and taking her meds as prescribed. Her temp is a bit elevated this morning and she didn’t have a great appetite but she did eat a lite breakfast for me. We allow her supervised grooming time where we take her cone off and allow her to groom the parts of her body that are not infected. This has helped her perk up and act more like a normal kitten. After her quick bath this morning, she enjoyed with some string time. ❤️
Turtle has another evaluation with the surgeon at AERC on Wed 8/28/24 and we hope to get a better idea as to when they can do surgery again to try and remove the necrotic tissue and close up the hole in her abdomen/pelvic area. This girl is such a trooper!! She just amazes me every second of the day! Keep fighting little Turtle! 🐢 You have an army of warriors fighting for you! Please keep sending her all the healing prayers, thoughts, and energy you can spare! Her road to recovery is just getting started and it will be a long one and she will need all the continued love and support she can get to get through this.
Go Team Turtle!! 🐢 ❤️
Team Turtle Update
Team Turtle Update 8/25/24 11am:
Turtle did well last night. She has been taking her medications as prescribed. She’s been eating and drinking and going potty normally. She doesn’t like to eat or go potty unless I’m in here with her, so she waits for me.
She just got some pain meds prior to this video so we are waiting for them to kick in and do their magic. Turtle loves to have her face gently rubbed. I’m sure it simulates grooming as she can’t do this right now with the big flower collar on. We got the first 24 hours at home under our belts and hoping the worst is behind us now finally.
I know she will have a lot more medical care to repair her necrotic tissue but hoping it won’t be nearly as bad or painful for little Turtle. She’s already dealt with more trauma and pain in her tiny body than I could ever handle.
Please keep sending Turtle your love! She is such a tough little fighter but she can’t do this without you! Keep the healing prayers, thoughts, vibes and energies coming!! 🙏 and if you can spare $1, we would greatly appreciate any financial support we can get for her ongoing medical expenses. Thank you!
Sunday morning purrs and chats with Turtle. ❤️
I honestly didn’t think this day would come with how horrible she was for a while there. We are so grateful for all of you and your continued support and the amazing care she received at AERC to help Miss Turtle! 🐢
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Team Turtle update
Team Turtle update: 8/23/24 10pm.
After last nights visit and how rough she looked, I wasn’t sure what to expect tonight at my visit. To my surprise, she was alert and sitting up. She enjoyed some chin scratches and told me about her day! She was having a little snack when I got there so I got to feed her. ❤️ It was such a huge relief to see her being Turtle again.
She is off the iv pain meds and they are able to keep her comfortable on oral pain meds which is a big step towards her coming home. She was up walking around a lot today and took a big 💩 right before I got there. I didn’t get to see her wound or incision but I asked how they looked tonight and the tech said pretty angry. I am eager to see how it looks so maybe tomorrow when/if she comes home I can get some updated photos to share. I do expect they will allow her to come home tomorrow providing she continues to do well tonight.
If she comes home tomorrow, she will need to be reevaluated by surgery early next week to make sure she is on the right path with healing her incision and the abscess hole in her abdomen.
Still no results back from the lab but hoping by tomorrow we have some more answers on which antibiotics she will need to come home on. The 2 antibiotics she’s currently on are treating the 2 strains of bacteria. It’s the 3rd bacteria that’s still a mystery… 🤔
I would say progress from last night for sure and much more encouraging for a possible discharge tomorrow!! Woohoo!!
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Please continue to send Turtle your love. She has a very long road to recovery and we are just getting started. Thank you for joining Team Turtle and helping this sweet little girl overcome such huge obstacles. She is incredibly strong and resilient but it’s the support, love and help from you and her other followers that is giving her the extra boost she needs to overcome this terrible set back! Keep fighting Turtle! We believe in you!! ❤️ 🐢
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Team Turtle Update:
Little Miss Turtle is hanging in there. I won’t lie, she looks rough!
The surgeon reevaluated the incision and wound area and does not want to intervene with another surgery at this time. We are in a holding pattern to see what Turtle’s body is going to do. The hole in her abdomen looks rough but it is draining and that is good. We did get some preliminary results back from her culture and there are 3 strains of bacteria growing. The 2 antibiotics that they have her on will treat 2 of the strains but we are still waiting to find out what the 3rd strain is resistant too. Praying the results come back tomorrow and if another/different antibiotic is needed they can get her started on it immediately. Until then, we wait, pray and worry.
Turtle did perk up when we went to visit her tonight for 10mins. She even meowed and told us about her day. ❤️
She could not come out of her kennel as she is hooked up to iv pain meds and they did not want to stop them. We were grateful for a few minutes to say hi and give her some pets and kisses. She is one tough little kitty!
Turtle will remain hospitalized, receiving life saving iv antibiotics and pain medicine and monitored closely until they can get the infection under control. She is not out of the woods yet and needs all the prayers and love she can get!
If you are reading this post or watching this video, please consider donating $1 towards Turtle’s medical expenses and recovery. $1 does not seem like much, but when we all work together and everyone shares just $1, those dollars add up and soon we have the funds needed to give Turtle the medical care she so desperately needs! Please, please consider joining Team Turtle and helping this sweet girl get the life saving medical care she deserves.
Turtle has overcome so much from her traumatic injury and crushed leg to her foot rotting off and her leg becoming mummified to an emergency leg amputation to now a systemic bacterial infection all within
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We were home for 5 hours but are now back at ER vet. Turtle has a high fever. Please continue to send love her way! #rainbowwhiskerskittenrescue
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Team Turtle update
Miss Turtle had her amputation surgery today and she did great!
She still has a pretty high fever but the doctors are hopeful that removing the source of the infection will help her body heal faster. She will remain hospitalized over night to receive iv pain meds and antibiotics and the doctors will reevaluate tomorrow morning and make a discharge plan.
Please send sweet Turtle some love and healing prayers, thoughts and energy tonight.
Even though she wasn’t feeling very good, she still had lots to say tonight when we went to visit her and give her some kisses and encouragement. Hang in there little girl, the worst is over now! ❤️ 🐢
Rest up so you can come home tomorrow!
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