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| Name: |
Sox
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Age: |
Two years old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Breed: |
Tuxedo
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| Home: |
Michigan, USA
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This
picture was taken when Sox was seven months old, when he was
living with my son and his wife, before his tragic story unfolds...
I saw him first at six weeks old and fell in love with him. I wanted
him then, but we had just gotten our first cat, a male, and I wasn't
sure he'd appreciate another male cat in the house. I told my son and
daughter-in-law about this beautiful tuxedo kitten and they went and
got him for their own.
After a year and a half they were not able to keep Sox due to
allergies, and I wanted him then, too. But I had three cats by this
time, my male and two females. They found what they thought to be the
perfect home for him. But, as sometimes happens, he did not adjust to
his new home and broke through a screen in the window one day and ran
away. I was heartbroken, as were my son and his wife! Sox was no
where to be found. Four months passed and I still wondered where he
was.
Suddenly one day I received the phone call I had dreamed about! Sox
had come home, though he was sick and badly in need of medical care!
I begged the new owners to let me have him so I could nurse him back
to health. But even I wasn't prepared for what I found when I went to
get him. He weighed only four pounds, he was extremely dehydrated,
anemic, malnourished, and near death, a true 'walking skeleton' of
his former self... What I shed were not the tears of joy I thought
I'd shed for finally getting to have him for my own. No, I cried. It
broke my heart to see this once beautiful, comical character reduced
to such a pitiful little thing with such a sad, distant look in his
eyes! Even our vet didn't hold much hope for his recovery. But I
believe in miracles, and that's exactly what I prayed for!
He was so weak he could not meow or walk very well or do much of
anything. We began the long trek to nurse him back to health. With
the excellent care of our veterinarian, and the love of our entire
family, Sox is growing stronger every day. It was discovered through
tests that he was suffering from a hardening in the intestinal lining
due to ingesting something he shouldn't have during his "outing" all
of those months. His stomach was no longer allowing him to get the
nutrition from any food he was eating. With proper medication he has
doubled his weight in just a month. Though he had two bad seizure
attacks and was comatose twice his first week back with us, he is
finally on the road to recovery. He is beginning to do some of those
silly things he was known for doing, like drinking water with his
paws...
Yes, I finally have my tuxedo boy, after two years... and wouldn't
you know, my male cat, Jasper, just loves him, too! It was hard for
me to face the truth that I had not taken him when I had the chance,
and he could have been spared that trauma. But we can't go back. All
we can do is make sure nothing like that ever happens again. I fell
in love with him so long ago; it warms my heart to see that spark
coming back into his eyes... When I pick him up and he rubs his face
against mine, purring, and I know he loves me, I also know miracles
truly happen!
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