Your six week old kitten just got the front door slammed on him, breaking his back. The vet says he won't ever be able to use his back legs again. He will not be able to walk or use the litter box. You are going to have to take care of him. What do you do? Kill him, or keep him?
I say you keep him! You will have to learn how to take care of him. It will be a lot of work, but the love that the two of you will have for each other is well worth it. How do I know this? My wife and I have three cats whose back legs don't work. One cat that was born with short front legs. One cat that had her back broken as a kitten, she can use her back legs but can't control her bladder or her colon. We also have a cat that has leukemia. Oh yeah, we also have five normal cats that we rescued.
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I think our cats don't know that they are handicapped. They run around and play a lot. They act like they really do enjoy being alive. We get a lot of joy and laughs from them. We have had to learn how to express their bladder and colon (make them pee and poop). That can be quit challenging. When you express the bladder you have to gently squeeze it and it likes to move around like a little water balloon.
We keep diapers on the cats that can't use the litter box. We change them twice a day. Express their bladder twice a day, and express their colon once a day. One of the problems with having to express the bladder is it is hard to get the bladder completely empty. This can lead to bladder infections, which happens about twice a year per cat. They have to be on special cat food to keep the infections down.
We have been taking care of handicapped cats for over five years. We have people say (behind our backs) that we should have had the cats "put to sleep". It does cost a lot of money and time to take care of them. We don't travel very much because of them. It is a lot of work to take care of them. It would be so much easier not to have them. Who wants easy! We love our cats and wouldn't trade them for anything. To kill or not to kill? We choose not!
Handicapped Cats - To Kill Or Not to Kill?
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