Bonzai is beautiful and very loving. She’s also got an unpredictable personality. When she showed up, she had horrible wounds and we couldn’t get within 50 feet of her. It took over a year for me to pet her, but it was always pretty certain that she was not a feral cat. She was lost or dumped.
A while back I saw that she was very sneezy and snotty. I put lysine in her food for a long time, back before I could touch her, but it didn’t seem to do much good. When I was finally able to pet her I took her to the vet. Turns out she had really bad teeth.
The vet said we could hold off a while on dental work, wait until things were more settled with Gorgeous. If it got to the point that I thought she needed antibiotics, I could get them and give them to her to hold her over. Well, we got there. We went from sneezy to green and bloody snot caked nose overnight.
We put her on a 10 day course of clindamycin. That knocked it back to sneezy and snotty, but not gross infected snotty. So, I scheduled her for a dental.
She had been in the habit of running inside the house to eat occasionally, but she was really sketchy about it and didn’t stay in long. Then, two days before her procedure was scheduled, she came in and stayed all day and into the night. I let her out when she wanted out that night. She came back in the next morning, and hasn’t gone out since. Hasn’t shown any interest in going out!
She had her dental work, they pulled 16 teeth and she was already missing some. Now she has 4 teeth left, all of her canines. And she has become a total indoor cat. Again. I think she was an indoor cat before.
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Poor thing…so glad she has adopted you and decided to be an indoor kitty with you.
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Me too. She got to where she followed me around the yard like a puppy and even started to follow along when I drove away one day (she was still in the yard, not the street, but still). I tried a break-away collar but she lost it in less than 12 hours, so I was very glad when she chose coming in on her own.
We had planned to try keeping her in after her dental, to see if she would tolerate it. I think it’s better that she just decided to come in and stay a couple days beforehand. 🙂
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She found her cat angels and she isn’t going to stray away from heaven.
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Awe. Thank you! It’s amazing how quickly she calmed down and relaxed after being in for a while! We might not see or hear her for hours, then turn around and she’s just stretched out in the floor a couple of feet away like she teleported.
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Banzai had a tough time! I’ll bet she had that Periodontal disease that Kali had. Kali is a Flame Point Siamese with chronic conditions such as this Periodontal disease. She too has had her teeth removed except 4, her canines also. She was also allergic to commercial cat food and was on Hypoallergenic soy dry cat food for about 5 years. Now she seems to be able to tolerate Fancy Feast wet food. She is delighted…as is Shoko because Shoko ate the same thing as Kali. I am attempting Royal Canin Siamese dry cat food. All seems good so far.
Jean
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I’m glad Kali and Shoko can enjoy more variety in their diet now. 🙂
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She a beautiful pussy.
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Thank you! We think so. 🙂
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