Please help save our lovely chubby ginger nugget!
Our sweetest wee kitten (/giant fat cat) is dying and we can't afford to do everything we need to do to bring him home.
Auckland
Hello my name is Daniel and I'm not feeling very well, and my mommas need your help to save my life.
This year has been a big one for my mommas. There's been emergency surgery on my taller momma, and then they got married which was lovely fun but cost a lot of money, and then things got a bit sticky with some mental health stuff, and then my taller momma got in a car accident and had to be off work for a long time. I got to show off my A+ nursing skills a lot and without me things would have been roughly 10000% more miserable.
They were planning to go on a huge trip to Europe next year but due to Life they had to cancel it and instead booked themselves a lovely little trip to New York in November. Everything was starting to look up.
Then my bladder exploded and now my abdomen is full of pee, which is poisoning me. They can't do surgery on me right now because I'm not stable enough but by the time they do everything they need to in order to get me stable, my mommas will be out of money.
They do have pet insurance because my short momma is very sensible, but there is a $3,000 limit annually and I'd used that up by Tuesday.
They would dearly, dearly love to tell the surgeon to do anything he needs to do, but they just can't. Anything you could spare could go towards one more procedure that will take me one step closer to coming home and snuggling between my mommas on my blue blanket where I belong.
If I don't make it through despite your generous donation, my mommas will donate any remaining money to the SPCA.
Amy and Frith Wilson-Hughes' involvement (page creator)
We are Frith and Amy and we love this wee boy more than either of us bargained for when we found him in the SPCA almost two years ago.
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Even happier news! 10 October 2016
Hello Daniel's wonderful team!
What a weekend it has been at Daniel HQ. On Saturday morning we were up and off to visit Daniel in the hospital (via Animates because he's the fussiest wee prince who was flatly refusing to eat the vet's fancy food, and via Toyco to buy him a little Buzz Lightyear soft toy). Daniel had been stable overnight and we were expecting to have our lovely, loving boy back but instead we found the sickest, saddest wee kitten that we'd seen all week. He didn't even seem to know it was us, had very little interest in attention or affection, and barely moved. I left feeling a wee bit heartbroken and feeling as though despite a successful surgery, he wasn't going to make it.
On Sunday we headed out to visit him again, feeling a little less excited and optimistic than we had the day before. When we arrived, the nurse said "I'm glad you've come to visit, he's been really sad," and my heart dropped, thinking it was going to be yesterday all over again. Then we got to his new cage, and our Daniel was there! Our real, proper, snuggly, head-butting, loves-his-mamas, attention-seeking, purry bestest boy was back. He was up and about and curious and lovely and naughty and I climbed right into his cage and snuggled the living heck out of him. He was so happy to see us and we were so happy to see the real him, I could have just stayed in that cage with him for the rest of the day. Eventually we tore ourselves away because he was obviously exhausted but fighting really hard to stay awake for us, and we know from my accident that "rest is best!". We left in a thousand times better spirits and had the best sleep last night that we've had for a week.
At 11:30 this morning we got the call - Daniel is coming home today! Exactly a week after we first took him to the vet, he's coming home. He's peeing on his own, which is amazing - he's not particularly good at controlling it yet with his much shorter urethra, so it's going to be does-it-smell-funny-in-here-to-you central around our place for a bit but we'll take that over not peeing any day. He's eating and drinking like a wee champion and is ready to keep recovering back in his own bed.
We won't have Daniel home until our excellent friends at Givealittle go home for the day so there won't be an update on here until tomorrow, but I'll be documenting his return home this afternoon on my snapchat story - username aaaamyyyy (four a, one m, four y) if you want to watch it all unfold! I'll also do a FB update on Amy Wilson-Hughes with pictures that I'll make public so that people can see and share it. I want you all to be able to share in this glorious and miraculous homecoming with us - there would be no Daniel Fluffernutter any longer if it wasn't for each and every single one of you, and neither of us have the words to express what that means to us.
You did it! You saved our boy! I'll be back in the morning with what might be a final update, although a few people have suggested we make him a Facebook page so you can all keep track of him long-term - what do you think?
<3 <3 <3
A&F
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