The short update is, Juno’s very active and her appetite is reasonably good.
These are some photos from last night:
She does take time to rest in between playing as well.
As active as ever!
Yesterday, she ate well. This is her supper of her favourite meal, Cubgrub’s raw quail.
Last night, I had Riley and Tabs beside my pillow on each side and Juno at my feet. In the middle of the night, she played with me, but I noticed she was scratching her ears a lot. This has been happening for a few days now and on Sunday, during her check-up, the vet found yeast infection in her ears and had already cleaned them and applied Advocate spot-on for her. I also cleaned her ears yesterday. Hopefully this itchy ear problem will resolve with time.
This morning, Juno as bouncing all over but she did not want to eat at all. I offered AD, Cubgrub’s Chicken and Cubgrub’s Quail, and she rejected all. That got me worried as yesterday started that way – active as ever but refused to eat. Then, within hours, she went down fast.
I had to syringe feed her some AD so that I could give her the Doxy paste. This must be given with food. So I did that, and subsequently, managed to coax her to eat some AD on her own. I think Juno doesn’t like AD.
She drank a lot of water later.
And then, she ate Cindy’s canned tuna with Riley! Oh boy…starting to be choosy like the Blondies?
That’s how cats hold us at ransom for the food of their choice: If you don’t give me what I want, I will starve myself and who knows, I might end up with gastric issues or hepatic lipidosis or worse. It’s on you. Totally.
So we fall victim to their demands and they get what they want. Sigh…we are such suckers. At least, I am! With so many mouths to feed and home responsibilities, I do not have the luxury of time to strictly discipline them. So I give in. At least they won’t starve.
Juno found this new spot to sleep and hide yesterday.
Today is exactly one month from the day I rescued Juno from the middle of the road. Since then, she’s had a collapsed lung and now, suspected mycoplasma infection.
When we pick up any animal from the street, it’s hard to tell what underlying conditions they come with. We would just have to take a chance and deal with it as best we can when the issues manifest. Some pathogens remain dormant and issues will only arise later.
I am doing my very best for Juno. I hope she recovers from all this.
Meanwhile, when she’s awake, she’s zooming around the house, playing very happily. These are good moments to savour and be thankful for.
I’m grateful that even though she has medical issues, she is still able to zoom around. Either it means she is resilient (tough cookie!) or she isn’t that sick. I hope it is both, more of the latter!
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