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18/02/2025

Pics of Falcor today.

It's been a difficult winter keeping up morale with special needs cats and human illnesses.

Despite our lack of posting, we have received a lot of food donations from our Chewy wishlist, and a sizeable cash donation out of the blue. Not sizeable enough to solve our financial issues but very much appreciated that a little less money comes out of our own pockets.

Bean has been cleared of his FIP. His last treatment was at the end of January and his recent blood work was good. Leonard seems fully healed from his full mouth extraction and is currently in one of our foster rooms with Bean, Wesley and Reed. We have to work out a schedule of when and how many of them can go back to the cafe to meet people. Stressing Bean is a concern as that could cause an FIP relapse.

Falcor is still having oral inflammation though a round of steroids brought down initially from his sever inflammation that made it so he couldn't eat. We will be exploring ongoing medication options as steroids are not a good long term treatment and he just weaned off his last round. He has someone very interested in adopting him, so we may set up a foster to adopt situation to make sure he's set up as well as he can be with his chronic issue.

Evangeline is still at our home as well. She still will not touch kibble though her gums look less inflamed to me than they once were. And she doesn't grind her teeth eating wet food as she once did. So her prognosis is still murky, if she also has stomatitis or if just some kind of weird juvenile gingivitis. Her playmate Rainbow Dash is still here as well, as is Toothless, Evangeline's mother, who has become tolerant of our cats but still seeks a home as a solo cat.

Roxy has been in our care for over a year and is still testing positive for heartworm. They didn't expect the antigens to still show after a year on Revolution treatment, so we may discuss more options or ideas with the vet this week. So far they say she isn't presenting clinical signs of the disease but she did register a heart murmur.

We still have many cats at the cafe as well. I need to update our website to more accurately reflect everyone's current status.

09/01/2025

Leonard waits to check in for his complete mouth extraction - later today he will have no more teeth to trigger his painful stomatitis gum inflammation.

His estimate is 800 - 1,000 for today's procedure, and we still have about 200 from his previous exam and bloodwork we haven't paid off yet.

We have dealt with several full extractions so in my experience will likely take about 2 weeks before he is recovered enough to return to the , assuming no one applies and is approved to adopt before then. He had many friends and fans at the cafe, but previous applications were scarce and fell through.

As always you can help Leonard and our other cats by donating at our website.

fullheartsroc.org/donate

23/12/2024

Pictured is Bibi, who is still at the cafe.

Sorry for the radio silence, I badly strained my back last week, during my last few days of RIT work, and it's been a slow painful recovery. I'm still not back to full function after several days. Some vacation...

Leonard was confirmed to have stomatitis at his vet checkup, no big surprise there from his symptoms - he's scheduled for a full mouth extraction January 9th. We desperately need funds to help cover that major surgery.

We've still been processing applications, but this time of year there's a lot going on for people so scheduling hasn't been as smooth for interviews and meet ups. Topaz got adopted last week.

We still have lots of cats ready for adoption at the . I really need to update our own website but I haven't been sitting at the computer much as inactivity locks up my back.

We have had an uptick in food donations from our chewy wishlist which we greatly appreciate, we are now well stocked. We really need cash funds for vet bills.

https://www.fullheartsroc.org/donate

13/12/2024

When the feral colony gets impatient for breakfast, Dopple sits on our mailbox and leans in front of the window.

We just got the reports today that we did get a few donations through Roc the Day, so thank you to all. We've never participated before. Looks like the funds don't come through until late January, from what I can see, but that will help us with bills eventually.

is taking Leonard to his vet today for us. He has some inflamed gums and isn't eating well.

Bean's one month blood work looks very good, about two more months of daily injections to see if he will beat FIP.

09/12/2024

Bean had a blood draw to check his levels after a month of FIP medication. He has been acting very well and gaining weight, but the bloodwork will give us more details on how he is progressing.

Reed is doing much better, his nosebleeds and diarrhea have stopped and he doesn't sound congested. He's eating wet food without me having to warm it up.

Leonard at the cafe is having issues, gum inflammation, and discomfort eating. I don't see immediately rotten teeth or anything but it does seem worse on one side. We'll make an appointment for him to get checked out, but we have no funds to spare if he needs teeth extracted.

04/12/2024

Reed the former barn kitten has been sick since Saturday, and while he seemed to be improving somewhat, we went to an urgent care appointment anyways. I didn't like that he was still sneezing bloody.

The vet did recommend a switch up of antibiotics, moving from clavamox to doxycycline, and we are getting a fresh bag of sub q fluids to have on hand, as the bag of fluids I have been using for him was started for Wesley, and I don't like using a punctured bag past a month or so and that is coming up. We also will pull some small dosages of buprenorphine for pain as we have leftovers from another cat that didn't use it all as that cat had a poor reaction to it. Saves a few bucks anyways.

His chest and heart sounded good, and the bloody nostrils are from the irritation of his nasal passages, which is what I assumed but sometimes it seemed like a lot.

03/12/2024

We are listed on Roc the Day this year for Giving Tuesday.

https://unitedwayrocflx.link/roc-the-day/causes/fullheartsroc

25/11/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to the craft sale Friday and contributed to our 50/50.

We took it fairly easy the weekend afterwards, recuperating from the social energy expenditure, though I did get a fair amount of meal prep done, and got a turkey in the fridge.

Once again our 50/50 pot was fairly small, and the winner donated their winnings back. We are very grateful as we continue to operate in the red.

We are doing our last TNRs for the year this week, for a barn where the caretakers are paying for the costs of the appointments.

Bean continues to respond well to FIP treatment. He is gaining weight back, so his dosage, and costs, will be increasing. Soon he will be scheduled for bloodwork to check his progress a month in.

Adoption applications have slowed but we still have a few people to contact and catch up with this week.

22/11/2024

Our 50/50 raffle closes tonight Friday night.

https://go.rallyup.com/fullhearts

We will be at RIT in the Fireside Lounge of the SAU from 10-3:30 or so for the Craft and Vending Sale. (I have an appointment at 4 so we will have to pack up a tiny bit early, the show is scheduled until 4.)

We have an eclectic array of items from cat toys, jewelry and dice, to self published RPG books.

There's always lots of great vendors for holiday shopping.

21/11/2024

We are looking for a special foster, adopter, or foster-to-adopt for Evangeline and Rainbow Dash, two unrelated but bonded 6 month old kittens. Evangeline is all black, Rainbow is a brown tabby.

Evangeline has had oral issues since losing her baby teeth; she has already seen a vet and they think she has early signs of stomatitis, a painful inflammation of the gums. Her mother was rescued from the streets with no teeth; we assume they fell out or she painfully absorbed them over time. Evangeline has a habit of leaving bits of food along her inflamed gumline. Her gums bleed easily when I try to brush the bits of food away and apply an antiseptic oral gel.

She's too young to consider pulling teeth yet. But that's the path she seems to be on.

Evangeline will currently only eat wet food. Currently she is fed multiple times a day. Sometimes she eats a lot at once, sometimes small amounts.

Rainbow Dash is perfectly fine, but she is Evangeline's only cuddle and play mate so they have been kept together.

Evangeline tolerates other cats, eventually, but in an ideal situation it would just be the two of them.

They are both very sweet and cuddly, very used to people from their time in the . They also have typical kitten energy, especially Rainbow Dash.

You can apply at our website for adoption or foster at fullheartsroc.org

20/11/2024

Falcor has been a lot more confident, many weeks after having all of his teeth removed. He is at his door now when he hears us coming, instead of hiding in a corner.

I haven't annoyed him prying his mouth open in awhile, he still had a lot of inflammation the last time the vet looked at him several weeks ago. We will be trying to gauge if the complete extraction was enough to ease his stomatitis, or if he will need ongoing medication.

12/11/2024

Waiting to drop off Wesley at Urgent Care. noticed he was off yesterday.

Vet said I could do a regular urgent care appointment at 9:30 but that's when Bean gets his FIP injection. And I have an online therapy appointment at 10 I feel like, I should avoid canceling...

I can't take another crisis.

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