September 2011
1 post
Starting again
Our blog has been a bit defunct. The last post was about Ida B., and she’s been living the good life for over a year now! But we are resurrecting the blog for Tenth Life to bring you tales from the trenches of cat rescue. We want to give you more in-depth looks at our kitties, details about their recovery from street life and injuries, and information about what we do.
So, add us to your...
May 2010
3 posts
A Whole New Cat
Ida B. is a completely different cat than the one we knew and loved for those eight long weeks of recovery. While she had her jaw fused, PEG tube in, sweater on, and e-collar donned, Ida B. (in retrospect) was depressed. She was incredibly inactive, sad and lonely, and despondent.
Now, free of all those devices, she is a happy, youthful and spry kitty!!! She’s acting her age of on year,...
She's Free!!!
Today, Ida B. has sweet feline freedom again! The appliance that kept her teeth fused together for eight weeks, in order for her jaw to heal after being shattered by a gunshot wound, was removed! Her teeth were separated yesterday, and she can eat normally once again instead of through the little gap between her teeth.
She weathered surgery very well, despite losing a beloved canine tooth, and...
Two Weeks
We’re getting so close to the end, we can nearly taste it! Two weeks from Monday, Ida gets her jaw un-fused at the vet and she can eat like a normal kitty once again! By now, after six weeks of tube feeding, sweater-wearing, and Cone of Shame-donning, ALL of us are sick of poor Ida B.’s state of being. The girl is ready to EAT!
About once a day, we give Ida a bowl of food to lick. She...
April 2010
3 posts
The Latest on Ida B.
We saw the vet on Wednesday. He said that Ida B.’s teeth and jaw are still in place. All we can do now is keep on keeping on, feed her as we have been, and wait out the six week healing period. Poor girl has to keep her e-collar on, as well as her sweater, and we cage her now only overnight, as opposed to any time we weren’t in the room. She’s become so inactive that we really...
An excursion
One week down; 5 or 6 to go. Sigh…
Ida had her teeth re-fused one week ago today. We see the vet on Wednesday morning for a recheck. I’m hoping she gets the thumbs-up and that the vet will relax some of the strict rules he gave us last time, which include keeping the e-collar (cone) on Ida B. all the time, and caging her when we’re not around.
Poor Ida has really seemed...
Updates on all
Ida B. is hanging in. She is tolerating her e-collar, feedings, medications, and even the cage she spends (too much) time in. We’ve been giving her nightly “spa treatments” where we wipe down her drooly face and chin with a warm wet washcloth, brush her body since she can’t clean herself, and clean her e-collar… it gets unbelievably messy! We finally have a few very...
March 2010
7 posts
WatchWatch above, as we feed Ida B., a stray kitty who was shot in the face and required major jaw and dental surgery. Her teeth are fused closed to help her jaw heal. In the meantime, all of her meals are delivered directly to her stomach via a PEG tube. We go through this process 4 times a day, and it takes 30-45 minutes each time. Please help Ida B. by spreading the word about Tenth Life. We...
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Feeling sad that Ida couldn’t enjoy the delicious taste of that meaty goodness that comes in a can, I offered her some licks from a bowl today. Voraciously, she gobbled up the small amount of watered down food. Suddenly, she frantically tried to paw at her mouth as she shuddered in pain. Of course, I felt AWFUL for causing this pain to her, but I wanted her to have some happiness in her...
Ida visits the ER
Last night, we fed Ida, finishing around 11pm. My husband came in to help me give her a dose of pain medication which, sadly, has to be administered orally. And this little girl has got ONE. SORE. MOUTH. So we got the syringe in her mouth, gave her the meds, and suddenly she freaked out. She jumped away from us and proceeded to jump wildly a few more times. Immediately after all this ...
August 2009
2 posts
Licensed
Tenth Life is now licensed by the State of Missouri as an animal rescue. This enables us to transfer needy cats from other shelters. Yippee!!!
March 2009
2 posts
Approved!!!
Tenth Life Cat Rescue is now a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization! That means all of your donations will be tax deductible! Woo hooo!!!
February 2009
1 post
January 2009
6 posts
Movin' Up in the World
Tenth Life has a bank account! Wahoo! Not much in it, but we’ve got it. So… we can start accepting donations! They won’t yet be tax-deductible for donors yet, as we are awaiting our 501(c)(3) approval, but we can accept money to help the kitties!
Help Tenth Life! →
At the bottom of our homepage are two links… ways you can help Tenth Life without spending a DIME of your own money! Please check it out!
Welcome!
Welcome to Tenth Life’s blog. You can read more about the organization here. We are devoted to stray cats with medical emergencies and overall health problems. Please stay tuned to our blog for updates on the organization’s progress!