I just wrote 3 paragraphs about Champ's near death experience last Monday but the other kitten, Tuffy, walked on my computer and wiped it out. So I guess I wasn't meant to make a big thing about Champ's eperience.
Let me say this: last Monday morning he was near death from a severe diarrhea attack, and Doc Dunn in Ellendale saved him .... I spent most of the day in his clinic holding kitten in a towell inside my jacket while Doc tended to him every hour or so. And then kitten rallied at 3am. From a limp body, unable even to raise his head .... to 20 hours later crawling the front grill of his crate yelling for food. No one can explain why he lived ... or what made him so terribly sick. I am grateful, and there were a lot of people praying for him.
I'm trying to save two young dogs who belong to my next door neighbor. It's supposed to be 17degrees tonight, and they are in an open mud-filled dog pen. Their shelter is an old wooden kennel with no blankets or bedding. I went to Aberdeen this afternoon in desperation and bought a $95 Dogloo Igloo insulated extra large dog house. Along with two bales of straw to use for bedding and or to cover the ground in the pen. I have to figure out how to get the dog house over there and get the dogs in without completely pissing off the owners. This is a soap opera in freezing cold weather. I tried talking to them while it was still warm a few weeks ago, but they weren't interested in any help preparing the animals for winter. So I'm doing it on my own. If they give me a hard time, I'll turn it over to the Human Society people, but in the meantime I don't want their dogs to die or get sick. I can't be casual about mistreatment of animals.
Also bought Champ a bigger crate. He's wobbling around on the bed and the floor now, entertaining the other cats. He needs more space than the cat carrier. He weighs about 3/4 of a pound now and is 31 days old today. God is good.
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