Purrfect Pals.. And more pictures

Ok so some of you know that I work at a no kill cat shelter called Purrfect Pals and if you didn't you know now. Anyway I thought I would share with everyone the cute adorable sweet spoiled kittens that live at the shelter. Yes I said live. They are not up for adoption and unfortunately will live the rest of their short life in a room with 20 other cats until they cross the rainbow bridge. These cute adorable sweet kittens are Feline Leukemia positive. They have all been tested multiple times to make sure that the readings were not false. These kittens were given a horrible disease that will rob them of their life at a young age. If we are lucky they'll make it to 1 year, we're amazed if they make it to 2 years and if they make it to 2 years the chances are they will live until they are seniors spending the rest of their lives in the shelter. But making it to 2 isn't their only hurdle. Being as they have a lowered immune system their system will be subject to various upper respiritory infections(URI), eye infections, anemia etc but we will take care of them and treat them to the best of our abilities. These diseases are nothing that anyone can prevent as approximently 90% of the healthy population of cats have some type of URI that is just dorment in them and only shows signs in imune deficiant or stressed cats.

Now don't get me wrong it's not a horrible place to live, they have their own room, multiple cat trees, ourdoor play areas ( in the spring/summer) visitors on a daily basis, room service :) etc, but I'm just disgusted that this is a completly preventable disease and that more people aren't vaccinating against it. We've taken in 3 seperate litters of kittens and 3 adult cats this year alone that have all tested FELV (leukemia) positive. Now that just sucks. This could all be prevented by a simple vaccine.

I guess the one good thing about this is that these adorable kittens don't know what I know and never will. Thankfully they just get to live their lives, however short they may be, as spoiled rotten little kittens who get the joy of having us bend over backwards to make them as happy as they can be.

For more information please visit....

http://www.purrfectpals.org/

and think about sponsoring on of these adorable kids.

Mis Mellow (black/white- adult FELV +)

Kayla (dilute torti - 9m kitten { her brother recently passed away due to FELV complications])

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Skittles (Red torti--8 month- kitten FELV +)

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Dainty ( Dilute Torti-8 months old FELV +[ her sister Pretty recently passed away due to FELV + complications])

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Bonita--(dilute torti grey face- 8 months old [ Dainty's remaining sister])

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Ivy aka Mamma ( Black/white Tux--1 1/2 years old- was abandoned at a petstore with her kitten who also tested FELV +)

Now if I could just figure out how to get the stupid text to wrap around the pictures I'd be super happy! but I'm tired and just don't want to deal with it. Another job put off.