Poor Guy's Cat Rescue

08/12/2024

Wound up with an unexpected tripod kitty. His surgery had been taken care of by the lady that found him. Not the best pic, trying to give him privacy.

05/12/2024

Tried getting a picture of Rusty's big cheeks, he has the big tom cheeks (is neutered). He's tricky to hold at first, he rolls and climbs all over you, so you have to catch him or he'll wind up flipping off your lap, a very happy guy.

22/11/2024

I was trying to figure out how I was going to get this week's catfood, pay remaining bills, and not overdraft.

I opened PayPal and there was $412, almost 2 weeks of food for the cats. Thank God.

It wasn't there the other day.

21/11/2024

Last night I was up sick, really don't think my body has much left, basically hemorrhaging blood.

I took the week off prior to this one, and was better. Monday I come back, and immediately start bleeding, worse each day. All I did was sit around, play games on my computer, or sleep last week (aside from cat stuff).

The bathroom has an exhaust fan, bringing in sounds from outside quite well. About 9am I heard a yelp and then what sounded like a dozen or more coyotes howling, cackling,barking and such. I grabbed the shotgun and went to the door, I hear noises when I'm in the bathroom, but when I go out I hear nothing most times.

Last night it sounded like a dozen or more coyotes when I went out, just out of sight in the woods. I shot the top of a tree in a direction no one lives. The yelping stopped and after 5 minutes or so you could hear one whimpering somewhere. I didn't wound one unless it was 30 ft up a tree, I'm guessing it was a fight of some sort. A bit later I heard growling and barking along with whimpering, so I shot again in the same manner. I assume one come back to finish the other off?

I've never heard so many in my life, and we've lived here for decades. It's illegal to shoot or hunt them at night, all you can do Is scare them off, during the day it doesn't matter...the time of day when you never see them and they aren't a threat around here...

06/11/2024

White Kitty had a biopsy of the growths on her eyelids, it was squanomous cell carcinoma. The vet feels it has likely spread to her sinus and ear canal.

She's eating and drinking ok, happy and wants love. We're keeping her happy as long as she doesn't appear to be suffering.

18/10/2024

Had to take White Kitty to the vet, she's been having conjunctivitis and eye issues.

I came home early today and found her left eye ruptured. I'll spare that photo, it's graphic.

She's ok, having surgery for eye, currently owe vet just under $1000.

If anyone can help with the vet bill, the account is under Charles Higdon, and it's Covington County Veterinary Care, 334-222-1605. Anything helps.

15/10/2024

Well shoot...Skyrizi and one other drug aren't covered by Blue Cross Peehip in Alabama. Can't take my current med anymore, wasn't working anyway. I'm going med free I guess.

Tried all the diets, steroids quit working, only quitting a job when it was bad and taking a job at the local parts store (no stress) made it go away (for 4 years ). Guess I just need something to take the worry away. Network/Server Administrator isn't the career for me.

11/10/2024

Mom's old job decided to let her work 3-4 days a week. She was kind of excited for extra income, even though she had walked out of the same job after 40+ years with no notice back in March or thereabouts.

She had used a computer or terminal for a good portion of her employment. I had been IT director there, so I still remember parts of the software.

She asked me Tuesday to show her something, hands me a keyboard and asks "what does what", as in what does each key do... I didn't realize her mind had went so much in the last 6 months. When I went to work with her to help her out she swore the computer and software was totally different, that all kinds of things were different...but they weren't.

Despite all the years of screaming from her, watching her treat dad like crap the last few years... it felt sad. I get to see a second parent slowly lose their mind.

04/10/2024

I got this message today about the two cats in the post below, no other details...

03/10/2024

Taking in these two Saturday. Someone has to take care of in-laws and they don't like cats and they'll be put outside if I don't take them.

Only pic I have at the moment.

30/09/2024

I need to ask a few dumb questions. As many know I struggle with severe colitis. I sometimes don't eat for days, am super weak, go to the bathroom 20+ times a day sometimes, have horrible pain and lots of intestinal bleeding.

The more I move around, the worse my guts feel.

My doctor has written a note, one thing saying I'm not to lift more than 10lbs. My job description says I need to lift 50lbs independently. I'm in IT, a server admin, so there shouldn't be really much lifting.

Instead they have me moving entire buildings worth of equipment with a shopping cart, pushing it a fee football fields to other buildings.

They said my doctor's note was unreasonable. If I can't physically hold out to do the work, could I be fired?

17/09/2024

Yeah...things gonna be tight. There's about $500 in checking til the month finishes. There are eight neuters, two weeks of cat food, and personal bills (phone and internet) and food if I need to eat to pay for.

I may have to just feed everyone dry food and eat light bread myself.

I was sitting here thinking about going to get some McNuggets for lunch. Checked my balance, changed my mind.

13/09/2024

Well, have 8 neuters scheduled the week of the 23rd, back to oweing the vet for a few months.

10/09/2024

Please excuse the dirty counter. This is right after I got up. I usually go through and wipe the counters clean of any hairballs, barfs, strange footprints, etc., but Fritz was talking. I never have my phone handy when he's talking.

There was a hairball and hairball juice, and someone apparently barfed on one of my colitis supplement bottles that i didnt clean in the rush to film him. I wish i could edit it out, but oh well. Rest assured, counter and dirty things were cleaned.

He has the oddest meow.

09/09/2024

I called to speak with mom's doctor today, he's also my doctor. I want to share with him the prior mental issues, the videos, and the things she did over the weekend to see if he can test her and possibly treat her for anything.

If she winds up in a nursing home, the cats and I will eventually be homeless due to Medicaid reclaiming the estate when she passes to pay for medical expenses, yay Alabama.

She forgot how the tv worked, forgot what numbers were, forgot what colors were. She came into my room having a fit and asked me to just turn the damn tv off. I took the remote that she brought into my room back into the living room and turned off the tv.

15 minutes later she came back, same fit, yelled at me to turn her damn tv off. I again took the remote and followed her. She stopped walking and stared blanky into space until I asked for room to squeeze by. The tv was not on, even though she insisted stuff was on the screen.

Hopefully they can treat her and things work out. I cannot lose where we live for the cats' sake. She cannot be left unchecked either...I'm so sick with worry.

Stupid comments will be deleted.

31/08/2024

I deleted the posts about Mittens. I am probably going to shut down or delete the page later today or just never come back to it. I need some time to calm down before I can decide. My life is hell, my health is bad to say the least. I'm not going to argue online anymore. My boss is actively trying to force me to die or quit work, moving all IT equipment from one building to another in a shopping cart or by hand. Too much moving around and straining causes me to basically hemorrhage blood from my intestines. This morning was the first time I've eaten in two days, just no appetite.

When I get a bit I'll go through recurring donations (I may have two I think) and close those out. Those people deserve an active page. I thank them for the support over the years. I thank all the people that have sent supplies, donations, and well wishes. I'm not in a good place right now. I'm on mobile at the moment, but I think I deleted all my wishlists from here.

I'll find some way to make this work by myself. If I cut out fast food, cut off the television, strip out unnecessary things, the math says it will work. The vet accepts payments.

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30/08/2024

The puppy pooped beside the litter boxes, yesterday he was sitting in one, lol.

29/08/2024

Going to be tight on cat food today, don't get paid til midnight THIS Friday, out of canned food, and overdrawn a few hundred.

Usually restock on Friday's, just not this one.