Spicy Purrito - Adopted

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Such a beautiful cat and he has an intriguing, complicated story. He was found alone, under a house and was brought to us weighing less than 400 grams. He was a tiny, fragile little blob, a neonatal bottle baby with horrible eye goop and luckily, a will to live. As our very experienced neonatal foster team Erin & Matt nursed him into the “kitten safety zone” (zone of no death), they began to notice he had a way about him, he was drawn to hands, as in wanting to attack them. As a tiny neonatal kitten this wasn’t a problem. He was extremely sensitive to touch with human hands. You could pet him with a wand and he was ok but put your hand on him and he would screech with a reaction that you might describe as him saying, “get your hand off me!”. We knew as he got bigger this could be a problem, picture 2 vet techs having a time trimming his claws. We began the process of trying to rule out what could be the problem. Pain was considered, so after palpating his little body we ran X-rays to see he might have a broken tail. We struck out, but we were happy his tail was not fractured. We decided to do a full blood panel with T4 and Bile acids panel, not once but twice. We ruled out hypothyroidism. But little Spicy, as Spicy as ever, was fully grown at this point and at 4 pounds 14 ounces we definitely can say he has dwarfism which is so cute. The 3 veterinarians who were working on his case were all in agreement to put him on Fluoxetine (Prozac). We decided to observe throughout the 8 week load in period with a Nest camera on him at all times. We saw behavior displayed at night like cuddling with all his various foster kitten buddies and jumping up onto his cat tree, which we never knew he did before the cameras were installed. We began to use treats to get him to go where we needed him to go. We can now weigh him, get him to jump on his cat tree and get him to jump into our lap even. He is in a phase now where we are going to up his Fluoxetine and see if there is a chance of reaching normalcy for Spicy. We believe he’ll always be a special little Spicy fellow but all of his veterinarian team agree, he is adoptable. He is super cat friendly and would make a great addition for someone who likes a challenge, perhaps the unknown of how well he could be trained and maybe even one day be a normal cat. He is precious with his dwarfism and truly a beautiful little cat anyone will tell you who has met him. You will want to cuddle with him but you’ll first have to gain his trust. If you’re interested in meeting Spicy to adopt him reach out to us. His adoption fee is being sponsored by the rescue, we are just looking for the perfect forever home for this special kitty.

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