For those of you who don't know, I usually rotate my profile picture between my 7 cats. This one is one of my former cats. His name was Nicky or Nickity Splickits or Nick Nick Nickity Mr. Splickets. Mr. Splickits was dropped off anonymously in the middle of the night in a cardboard box at a local human shelter on Dec. 23rd. Because of the Holiday they named him Nick after St. Nicholas. Nicky was in bad shape. His paw was cut, his hair was a mess and all matted with feces. He had some growths on his face that needed to be surgically removed as well. Nicky also had no teeth. While he was at the Shelter (Protectors of Animals) he also had a tendency to pee in his cage. Nicky was an older cat but who knew how old for sure?
Needless to say - we adopted Nicky. His paw needed to be soaked in iodine twice a day (because of the cut). He was also diagnosed with cutaneous lymphoma (skin cancer). I would bring him North of Boston for Chemo treatments every 3 weeks. Nicky lived for 6 months. During that time he was the happiest little guy ever - period. He had no teeth but he had no problems eating wet or dry food. As sick as he was he was always happy. He loved to play. He was a fabulous soccer player - bouncing a ball back and forth between paws. Even though he liked to urinate in his cage at the shelter, he always used the litter box when we got him home. He was a very special boy. He died almost 4 years ago now (in August) and I like to think he is on the Rainbow Bridge. If you have not heard about Rainbow Bridge - I did a post about it that you can read here.
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Matt
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