Hi all! Flower is doing soooo much better! I'm so proud of her - to think a little over a week ago I thought they were going to put her to sleep. She is now at the point where I believe she is ready to go back to the shelter. I just dont know if I want her to go back there. The whole issue of them not taking her to the vet when she obviously needed to go (she almost went blind because of it, see the topic oh no :( ). And then when I told them her eyelids were fused in her one eye and that she needs surgery to fix it, they said I should bring her back and they'll put her to sleep. They said they had her for two weeks, and were treating her for her eyes, but I pulled 5 huge ticks of her (think the size of your thumbnail, butterscotch coloured ticks). How do you miss that on a 5 week old kitten? She was crawling with fleas, and pooping live worms. They were feeding her milk replacement formula, 20 ml a day. A kitten her age would have been drinking 150 ml a day, and eating solid food by then. She really was very close to death. I'm at a loss. I've been working with this shelter for a year now, and I've never seen anything like this from them. I cant afford to keep another cat. I've got 6 already. The longer she stays, the more attached I'm going to get to her, but I dont want her to go back to the shelter either. What do I do?
I have absolutely no faith in placing adverts in newspapers and shops and stuff like that - I've always said responsible people adopt cats from shelters (now I'm not so sure). I'll have her spayed, and microchipped, and vaccinated, but how do I know that her potential new owners will take good care of her? I've always taken my babies back to that shelter when I'm done fostering them in the good faith that they'll find happy homes. I dont know what to do.
