06.01.08

New Family Member: Isis

Posted in Life at 9:04 pm by cphoton

This post is not about technical stuff, but a life related one.

About a month ago, my girlfriend Vero was working at the veterinary, when a coworker called her saying that she had found a kitten at the entrance door of her house, and was very small and sick. This is a common occurrence here as people often cannot take care of pets and abandon them for good and here in Uruguay there are no good laws regarding animal protection. Anyways, when the kitten was brought to the veterinary the kitten was in love for Vero and hugged her, and the kitten was so cute that Vero could not resist bringing it home, so she called me and asking to adopt her…

When I came back from work, I found that it was very cute, a female Siamese kitten, but poor little thing, it was like a skeleton with feet (malnutrition), and also had something solid on its bowels and conjunctivitis. It was also quite anemic as it was full of tick and fleas. We immediately began treating her, starting with a shower to remove the bugs, medicine for the eyes and special cat food for recovery. We also named it Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magical power and healing. The day after (May 1st), it did not tolerate most of the food and it spent most of the day vomiting, until it vomited raw potatoes and rotten tuna! luckily, she started tolerating water and milk afterwards, and eventually it recovered

Having her join our place gave a lot of life to our new apartment, as it is quite playful and very affectionate. However, it is a bit of a demon to as, after all, it has only a couple of months at most, it plays with things that should not be playing and one of our curtains was damaged… oh well, nothing’s perfect

This is also a good opportunity for me for learning parenting techniques, as I never had a cat. About.com has good tips for taking care of cats.

Here are some recent pictures, as you may notice, it has grown up a bit (and doubled in weight) and it looks great now!

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