24/11/2024
🌈In memory of Snickers🌈
We are heartbroken to share a devastating update about Snickers:
Our sweet girl was diagnosed with FIP on Friday afternoon and by late evening Friday, she had a seizure. We rushed her to urgent care while her temperature kept dropping. The emergency vet determined that Snickers had a severe case of neurological FIP, while her symptoms kept getting worse. Based on her blood work from our regular vet a few hours prior, her dropping temperature, size, being full of fluid, weakness and seizure, we made the difficult decision to let her go to sleep.
This is our rescue’s first loss, and our team has been processing this over the weekend. We find comfort in knowing we did all we could for her and that she passed peacefully, surrounded by 3 people who loved her very much: Jackie Gauthier who is a local community trapper initially saved Snickers and her 2 siblings from the outdoors in July, temporarily fostered and has been actively involved in her numerous transports to various vet clinics as we got different opinions as to what she could have. Emily, Bambi.Jerrythepanda her devoted and extremely caring foster mom who has worked tirelessly since August monitoring and caring for her, always making Snickers and her treatments a priority, and our co-founder Marie.
This part of rescue is extremely difficult and we wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to Capital City Emergency Hospital for their empathy and compassion as we navigated this loss. We also want to acknowledge Heidi with Heidi's Kitty Haven for being an incredible support and resource to us with regard to Snickers.
We thank all of you who have been participating in our auction over the weekend, and to our ongoing bottle drive and raffle. All the funds raised are going towards helping us recover from Snickers’ urgent care and last expenses.
This sweet soul has left her little paw print on our hearts and we move forward by remembering her.
Rest easy little one. We love you ♥️
