Last Saturday, I received a rather apologetic phone call from my vets asking if after two recent bereavements, I would consider homing a special needs cat that was currently in their care. He was called Sweep - unusually for the name a tabby and white DSH, 8 years old, whose walking was slightly impaired due to past surgery on his spine. On top of that, he had recently been diagnosed as diabetic and required two injections a day (something my OH said he would never consider).
Sweep was about to be signed over to the local CP, (sadly, his previous owner had just been diagnosed with cancer ), so I suggested I could perhaps foster him instead - providing Patrick was in agreement. I thought I would have to use all my best powers of persuasion, but after he read the email that the vets subsequently sent (detailing his medical history and pics), his only question was... 'When do we get him?'!
We both went to meet Sweep on Wednesday afternoon, and after an hours induction (poor Sweep has multiple health problems), we brought him home to the relative comfort of our basement room. (I didn't post sooner, as I didn't honestly know how we were going to cope but fingers crossed, we are managing so far.
I've posted a couple of pics below taken by the vet during his hydrotherapy treatment last year. Sweep had a procedure called an laminectomy (to sort out a prolapsed disc) and had to learn to walk again: he is a very brave and special cat!
