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<div>Bob,</div>
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<div>You are an angel to the kitties you have cared for!! This new one will know a true home with such great love, even if it is only for a short time. Thank you for all that you do.</div>
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<div>Kat (Mew Jersey)</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:01 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "ROBERT CHAPEL" <bchapel@optonline.net><br/>
<b>To:</b> felvtalk@felineleukemia.org<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Felvtalk] Checking In...</div>
<div name="quoted-content">So Glad to hear that no new " tragedies" have emerged of late and that<br/>
Violet loves her catnip!.. I love the image I conjur of her eating a<br/>
leaf or two and rolling in the Grass looking at you with her little head<br/>
upside down.... It's been only a few weeks since I lost my buddy<br/>
Magellin and though it's not with me on a daily basis I only have to<br/>
encounter a surprise reminder to bring tears to my eyes ( eg... needing<br/>
to put some meds for myself into a container and grabbing the nearest<br/>
empty one which turned out to be Jelly's Mirtazapine container...<br/>
virtually in a second the whole experience came rushing back...<br/>
attempting to get him to eat..watching him lose weight... syringe<br/>
feeding him... Friends ask me " why are you considering doing it<br/>
again" and all I can say is.... " It feels worse to NOT help than the<br/>
pain of helping"... Amani expressed a nice sentiment a few times when<br/>
explaining to folks why she continues to do what she does...<br/>
" If the people who care about cats don't help them it's certainly not<br/>
going to be the people who _ don't_ care about them" ( yes Amani I took<br/>
a measure of literary license in quoting you... Hope it's close : )<br/>
On Sunday I expect to take home my new Foster... and older " Miracle"<br/>
survivor of some kind of traumatic encounter( we don't know what)... He<br/>
was traumatically brain injured and could barely walk when he first came<br/>
to us..when I drove him to the vet I was positive they would just put<br/>
him down... but he made a miraculous recovery and is now just the<br/>
sweetest lap cat you could know... but still not entirely steady on his<br/>
feet.. In the last few weeks he developed a tumor behind one of his<br/>
eyes and it is the consensus of two vets that it is a cancer that will<br/>
kill him in a few months.... ( one of the vets had a cat with the exact<br/>
same situation and used a combination of Sub Cu injectable alternative<br/>
meds to keep the boy alive for an extra nine months... I can't stand<br/>
the idea of this sweet guy living out his remaining days on the bottom<br/>
level of cages just sleeping there with little attention until he<br/>
dies... He deserves to see the sun and to have someone to pet him and<br/>
know a home for at least a few months.... I'm hoping that knowing in<br/>
advance of taking him home that the only real surprise would be his<br/>
actually surviving that I won't have the same level of sadness that my<br/>
others guys engendered... Be that as it may... I'm doing it.<br/>
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