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I AM DOLLY AND I APPEAL TO YOUR KIND HEART.




Please first let me give you a short history of my life.

My name is Dolly. I once was a beautiful cat but due to human neglect and severe abuse I am now missing my tail and one of my ear has collapsed. Someone brutally cut off my tail leaving only two inches of stump and then dumped me out on the side of a road in the heat of summer. When I was found in a garden my tail was bleeding, severely infected and I was in unbearable pain and shock. The folks at the Sanctuary were told of my poor condition and immediately came to my rescue . It took many long ,months of dedicated daily care to clear the infection on my tail, because it had taken a great hold on my already weak body. Every day my tail stump was soaked in a healing solution, dried, an antibiotic cream was applied and I was given antibiotics. As much as it hurt I never complained, I knew the people at the Sanctuary were doing all they could to help me. My tail finally got a crust on it and began to heal. It now has a soft covering of hair. They say I look like a bunny rabbit. . The only thing they could not do was to save my ear. It is believed my ear became disfigured from damage in past years from being left out in cold weather. They say I never showed any anger after my stressful trauma of being dumped out like garbage.

For a while I was very happy and healthy but due to my harsh past life there was residual damage done and now it is showing up as dental problems. Do you know how it feels to have a tooth ache? Multiply that thousand times and that's what I am feeling. Besides affecting my general health this unbearable pain is also making me miserable; eating used to be fun but now it is pure torture and I am loosing weight and loosing my "happy go lucky " ways. Despite the best efforts of my sanctuary and proper medications, I do continue to have problems with infections in my mouth. To get back my happiness and have a quality of life, I have to have dental surgery where all my teeth have to be pulled out. Don't worry, although there are no DENTURES for cats, YET! I will be much better off and will adjust very quickly.

Since it is a costly procedure which the Sanctuary can't afford, I am asking politely if you can find it in your HEART and pocket book to help me please? Each and every Dollar helps, so don't think if you can only give a little bit it won't help me. Each dollar helps! . I know there are people out there who want to give me a second chance in life. I came such a long way and suffered so much in my previous life, there must be a reason that I over came all the horrible things that happened to me.


I am only five years young and hopefully with your kind helping hand I will see a ripe old age.


WITH MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE !


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UPDATE ON DOLLY

I would like to THANK YOU all from the bottom of my little but very grateful heart for your generous donations towards the cost of my surgery. With your help I got the necessary surgery and came through with flying colors. I am sure you can appreciate that I am not feeling like "dancing" yet! I feel quite uncomfortable for the time being since my mouth and gums were very badly infected and the surgery was quite extensive even my surgeon said "this is the worst mouth I have ever seen and I have seen a lot!" They put me on strong pain medications; oral and a "pain patch" to give me relief and I will be on antibiotics for an extended period of time to fight down every last bug  still left in my body .. I have  come through so many adverse situations and now having Guardian Angels like yourself, I know for sure that I will make a full recovery and all my troubles will be behind me; EATING WILL BECOME AGAIN A JOYFULL OCCASION and I can hardly wait for my first solid food! I will gain back my lost pounds and my happy go lucky personality will shine through. Have to admit I was always a brave trooper and never complaint but my human family knew how I really felt.

Now that I am on the road of recovery I am hoping that a family will fall in love with me and give me my "forever Home" . I promise I will give all the love I have saved up willingly and generously to them. If that does not happen I know I will be looked after lovingly as long I am at the sanctuary for the rest of my life; but to be really honest I really would love to have my very own home.

With much love and deepest gratitude,

Dolly

UPDATE ON DOLLY
We had Dolly's check up with the surgeon and we are very happy to say the surgeon was very pleased with her progress and gave us the green light to let her out from her room so she can join the other feline friends. She is still on soft food but since the other cats eat dry food we were cautious to let her out sooner and eat with them, but looks like if she nibbles it won't harm her anymore .We will still keep her tummy full with soft so she won't have the urge to nibble a lot.

Please join us in looking forward for wonderful things in her future ; it would be so nice and she deserves it so much; after all she has been through, to find a loving family and continue to enjoy her new found health and life for the remainder of her years.
Thank you for thinking about her, it makes us feel so good that we can share her good news with caring people.

If you look closely at her most recent photo, I am sure you'll notice the smile on her lips. She is so relaxed and playful it makes us feel so good to see her like this and we owe it all to YOU!
Thank you very much. She has done remarkable in such a short time. Thank you to all who have helped out with donations for this little darling.

We received enough to cover all the surgery and for her after care.

 

DOLLY PASSED OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE !

With the heaviest heart and deep sorrow we have to let all the caring people who took part in Dollies life know that we lost Dolly. Her passing away did not have anything to do with her recent surgery, matter of fact because of the surgery she had the most wonderful happy and joyful time. She was back to her normal sunshine personality, eating, playing and doing all the things she loved to do. Then suddenly almost overnight she slowed down and although she continued to eat her appetite was not the same. We took her right away to the clinic and were devastated with the diagnosis .... She had liver failure due to a tumor which must have been a fairly active one since we had her all checked out before her surgery and there was no indication of it.

We are sure you can appreciate how hard this decision to let her go was... Especially when she came through so much hardship and medical emergencies. Now everything was behind her and she was enjoying her new found happy life to the fullest. It breaks our heart that it was so short and we could not give her more of it.

Now looking back we sadly realize that the last few months was our final gift to her which we could only facilitate because of the help we received from of all the kind and caring people. We would like to thank you ALL for contributing to her happiness; Thanks to YOU she enjoyed this period of utter bliss and we are eternally grateful to YOU for giving her this precious present. Her last months were spend in playing, running, enjoying a warm spot in the sunshine..... All the things she could not or felt not doing before her surgery. She was our miracle girl, our sunshine and our "foster mommy " to scared little kittens. She was a true loving and kind cat with a giant heart and enormous capacity to love.

She surely will be missed terribly not just by us but also by anybody who knew or met her personally and I am also sure by you, who cared enough to share her victories and helped her to have them will miss her too.

We are so sorry to give you this news but YOU were one of the people who was in her life and made her happy.