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The sky yesterday:

Le sigh. Cat rescue isn't for the faint of heart, I tell you. The skin-and-bones Siamese is going to be euthanized this morning. I can't say I'm surprised, he was so sick and skinny and weak. We happen to know the family that lives in the house where I scooped the Siamese up, so on my walk yesterday I stopped and casually asked a few questions. We knew who the 'owner' was and Nicole and I each tried to go over there last night but found no one home...

The neighbor told me that the cat had been abandoned when a tenant across the street moved out. The Siamese moved next door (to the house Nicole and I tried) and that the lady who 'owned' the cat told the cat-loving-neighbor that he'd tested positive for Leukemia. They got a new kitten and turned out the Siamese and stopped feeding him so that he would just go ahead and die. Cat-Loving-Neighbor said she was terrified for him to be around the other outdoor cats the roam that block, that she'd had many conversations with the woman about humanely euthanizing the cat and that she would have done it herself if the cat would come to her. Instead, she was just feeding the cat on the edge of her property and trying to keep it away from all the outdoor cats on her side of the street.

I didn't let on that we had the cat at the vet. Instead I just told her that I hadn't seen it at all since yesterday and maybe he'd finally died. We both agreed that the neighbor that put him out belongs in a special circle of hell.

I immediately called Nicole, of course, and caught her up. She went to the rescue after work and talked to the vet who told us he actually tested positive for FIV (Feline AIDS) and not FeLeuk. Which is *great* news for the neighborhood cats. But bad news for him anyway since he's so advanced in his starvation that other issues have taken hold. They were going to give him a last big meal, a warm bed, and then lovingly help him out of his pain this morning.
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It was so nice and cool yesterday that I walked the Wildflower Conservation path with the boys yesterday. There are very few trees over there so we tend to avoid it when it's warm and sunny. The clouds and breeze made the wildflowers dance delightfully on the way. they boys were bored, but I loved it.

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The sky yesterday:

Le sigh. Cat rescue isn't for the faint of heart, I tell you. The skin-and-bones Siamese is going to be euthanized this morning. I can't say I'm surprised, he was so sick and skinny and weak. We happen to know the family that lives in the house where I scooped the Siamese up, so on my walk yesterday I stopped and casually asked a few questions. We knew who the 'owner' was and Nicole and I each tried to go over there last night but found no one home...

The neighbor told me that the cat had been abandoned when a tenant across the street moved out. The Siamese moved next door (to the house Nicole and I tried) and that the lady who 'owned' the cat told the cat-loving-neighbor that he'd tested positive for Leukemia. They got a new kitten and turned out the Siamese and stopped feeding him so that he would just go ahead and die. Cat-Loving-Neighbor said she was terrified for him to be around the other outdoor cats the roam that block, that she'd had many conversations with the woman about humanely euthanizing the cat and that she would have done it herself if the cat would come to her. Instead, she was just feeding the cat on the edge of her property and trying to keep it away from all the outdoor cats on her side of the street.

I didn't let on that we had the cat at the vet. Instead I just told her that I hadn't seen it at all since yesterday and maybe he'd finally died. We both agreed that the neighbor that put him out belongs in a special circle of hell.

I immediately called Nicole, of course, and caught her up. She went to the rescue after work and talked to the vet who told us he actually tested positive for FIV (Feline AIDS) and not FeLeuk. Which is *great* news for the neighborhood cats. But bad news for him anyway since he's so advanced in his starvation that other issues have taken hold. They were going to give him a last big meal, a warm bed, and then lovingly help him out of his pain this morning.
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It was so nice and cool yesterday that I walked the Wildflower Conservation path with the boys yesterday. There are very few trees over there so we tend to avoid it when it's warm and sunny. The clouds and breeze made the wildflowers dance delightfully on the way. they boys were bored, but I loved it.