helping the strays and abandoned

Source: Adjuvant Immunotherapy of Feline Fibrosarcoma with Recombinant felinefibrosarcoma.1Feline Interferon-v

This study demonstrated a decrease in tumor recurrence rates from 61% (11 of 18 cats) in control animals (treated with surgery and iridium-based radiotherapy) to 39% (7 of 18) and 28% (5 of 18) in cats who received human or feline interleukin-2 in addition to surgery and iridium-based radiotherapy.

my wife’s beloved flame point, Creamy, was diagnosed with cancer, fibrosacroma.   So far he has had 2 operations.  The first operation was to remove a tumor on his abdomen.  The pathology report cited the margins were clean, but too small.  A second operation was scheduled with Dr. Villalobos, to extend the site of the excision.  While at her office, scheduling the second surgery, we discovered two bumps on his left flank, on and near the site of a previous surgery, to close a bite wound that would not heal.

The second surgery was done and the 2 bumps on his flank, turned out to be fibrosarcoma, and the margins were not clean.  A third surgery for January 4th, 2012 is scheduled, to obtain wider margins.

We started chemotherapy on December 21st, 2011.  We are using carboplatin.  At the same time we have started him on Agaricus mushroom therapy.

He is such a beautiful and loving little boy, my heart is broken for him and my wife.

Rusty was neutered on April 7th, 2010.  Sandra took him to Southern California Veterinary hospital in Woodland Hills and got it paid for by Kitten Rescue.  Mouse remembers how he paid $260 of his own money to have Tommy neutered, so he was quite appreciative of Sandra’s efforts.

Rusty is still recuperating in a walk in cage in Kat and Mouse’s back yard.  At night they bring him in and keep him in a double shelve,  Mid West cat cage in their kitchen.  Rusty was shaved by the Vet, because his mats were so bad.

Eventually, Rusty will go to Pet Smart and be put up for adoption via Kitten Rescue.  Kat and Mouse were at Pet Smart today and saw Sandra there.  She said within a couple weeks she will pick Rusty up and show him for adoption.

After about 4 months since we had Tommy neutered (12/28/2009) and released (1/13/2010),  he showed up tonight at our house, just as we were pulling into the driveway.  Kat was ecstatic.  Several times a week Kat would ask mouse “where’s Tommy?”.  Mouse would always answer “around.”

Kat put some wet food out and some cat milk.  Tommy always loved the cat milk.  He ate some food and didn’t touch the milk.  He wandered off into the dark of the night.

Fix Nation wouldn’t neuter little Rusty because they discovered he has a heart murmur.  Sandra brought him back to us.  She said she will take him tomorrow to a place in Pasadena.   We also have 2 reservations at other clinics for tomorrow.  This is so stressful on Rusty and Kat.

Sandra came by around 10 pm today and picked up Rusty.  She will take him to Fix Nation tomorr0w (Monday).   What a nice person she is to do that.  She will bring Rusty back to us until he de-stinks.  Then she will take him to her Pet Smart cat adoption, where hopefully someone nice will take him home.

Earlier today we bumped into Laurie at her Serenity cat adoption at Petco.  We talked to her for about 45 minutes about cat stuff.  She is really nice too.

Rusty is the gorgeous red, long hair stray male cat that lives in our neighborhood.  He is friendly enough that Kat can pet him, but other times he keeps his distance.

We hadn’t seen him for a week or two, and then last night (a Thursday) he was in our backyard.  This is highly unusual since we have a cat fence around our property that keeps our cats in and others out.

Kat was able to coax him into the walk in cage in our backyard.  We set him up with some cozy throws and a heating pad made for animals.  This morning when I checked on him he was on the heating pad.  I snapped a picture of him.

I picked up a box of Ringers Solution from Costco last night.  I lost count of how many boxes I’ve bought.  It is for our cat Smitters.  He was diagnosed with kidney failure about 3 and a half years ago.  I hydrate him every day now.  Some times twice a day.

He is down to skin and bones, must weigh about 8 pounds.  But he has a voracious appetite.  Kat and I have to feed him about every 2 hours.  We’ve tried ignoring him, like when we are sleeping.  But it doesn’t work.  He won’t stop meowing and burring.  He makes a loud burring sound and won’t quit until he gets what he wants.

The overgrown yard of the Empty House was cleaned up about a week ago and the owner, Rick, has gone back to the East Coast.  Kat continues to keep a feeding station at the Empty House and we go there every night to put out fresh water and wet and dry food.

we are seeing 3 strays these days.  One of them we named Rusty.  He is a long haired, red tabby.  Kat was able to pet him and he is full of mats.  We saw him one day by the Empty House and got him to follow us home where I set up a drop trap on our drive way.

However, he wasn’t interested in food or hanging around and continued his walk around our neighborhood.  One thing we noticed, he marks like crazy, several times in front of each house.