Today my foster sisfur Drizzle did cross da rainbow bridge to play wif ma utter sisfurs already over der. I knows herz iz in good paws wif Abby and Picasso. Dey iz old ladies but I am sure dey will welcome Drizzle wif open paws.
Drizzle wuz only a lil over a year old and had only been wif us for a few months. Her and Drizzle broke out of their quarantine on the first nite here and had run of da place ever since. Dey lubbed chasin each utter through da house and playin on der Catty Stacks. Dey started settling in finding der own spots in da house. Tippy took over da lil tent and ma chair. Drizzle had da pillows on da Catty Stacks and top of da tall radiator in da bathroom. Dey both lubbed da Undercover mouse and would wrestle each utter on top of it.
Drizzle lubbed playin in da shower and would hide behind da curtain fur da humanz to come in and pounce! Herz wuz also known to cause a big splash by fallin in da toilet iffen human1 left da lid up. Human2 would be in da bedroom and hear SPLOOSH and knows Drizzle wuz somewhere all wet.
Da humanz did also calls herz Meep cause herz had dis quiet lil mew dat comed out in a “meep”.
We did only learn about herz habbin FIP a little over a week ago. Sometimes diz disease can work real fast.
What iz FIP? Feline Infectious Peritonitis iz a nasty virus dat most kitties are exposed to, but it will mutate inside a kitteh with a weak immune system into a new virus and this is wot iz fatal. Der are two forms of FIP a wet and dry kind. Drizzle had da wet kind. Her lil belly did fill up wif fluid while herz lost lots of weight. You could feels herz back bones stickin up and seed her face a legs were thinner. Herz would not eat much and slowly stopped eating altogether. Da worst fing about dis disease iz it takes sweet young kitties like our Drizzle.
If you want to know more about FIP please read the following articles…
- Cornell University’s Feline Health Centers article on Feline Infectious Peritonitis
- FIP FAQ from FIPsupport.org
After you reads dem you will understand why my humanz gotted a little crazy when I gotted sniffles and runny poops and rushed me off to da V-E-T.
My blood work came back and I haz the virus inside me (it haz not mutated) and I haz a low titer count so my vet sez not to worry. I should be fine. Especially since FIP only mutates in 5% off cats. Poor Drizzle just had to be in dat 5%.
We did not hab herz beary long, but we lubbed her very much. We wuz gonna makes here a permanent parts of our fambly too. Her momma Tippy will missin her greatly but herz still haz us and will be an official part of da fambly real soon.
Here are some more of our favorite photos of dis sweet lil girl dat we will miss so beary much.
