Edited version collating pictures and the untimely death of both these loving kittens 😓
Ziggy & Cosmo
After less than a year things went horribly wrong.
Ziggy disappeared under our bed. We knew he didn't feel well, but no idea why. We nursed him a few days but when he did come out he seemed to have issues with his rear legs. It didn't improve so we took him to the vets.
To our horror the vet was worried the he had FiP Feline Infectious Peritonitis.
It is a horrible desease there is no cure and can devestate a colony of cats odds are 1:5000!
Ziggy disappeared under our bed. We knew he didn't feel well, but no idea why. We nursed him a few days but when he did come out he seemed to have issues with his rear legs. It didn't improve so we took him to the vets.
To our horror the vet was worried the he had FiP Feline Infectious Peritonitis.
It is a horrible desease there is no cure and can devestate a colony of cats odds are 1:5000!
http://www.stopfip.org/faq.html#othercats
We had no idea how or why or where.
Whilst we were waiting for the blood tests to come back his condition was getting worse.
Whilst we were waiting for the blood tests to come back his condition was getting worse.
FiP can be passed on and can be from blood, Ziggy had caught a shrew in the garden ( they were on harnesses but had access to most of the garden.)
So he could of caught it from that.
The link explains it all.
A week later we were given the sad news that he had the desease. We could of extended his life with medication. But he still couldn't walk, the breed is a climbing adventurous breed. So I made that awful decision and said goodbye ( the deed was done whilst I held him).
So of course our attention turned to Cosmo, it was going to happen he already had a bit if a runny nose. I made the decision to let him roam we have a road at the front of the house but not a busy one and all our neighbours had cats. I walked him about our drives and put a cat flap in ( works via the cats chip) so he could come and go between 10:00 and 20:00hrs.
He visited nieghbours made a friend or two and come home covered in twigs and leaves. Always if we went out side he'd come running up to us chirping and trilling as cats do.
Then he suddenly got ill, this was it.
One evening he came and sat with me as usual but wasn't right. His breathing was heavy and that tell tell yellow mucus was coming from his nose.
Later around midnight his breathing became laboured. I was keeping him clean and syringing water into his mouth. He seemed to get a little better so around 2am I made sure he was comfortable and left him on the sofa.
Early morning I heard an awful wail, my wife and daughter were already up, I came downstairs to find them both crying, Cosmo was breathing heavy but was short of breath, he seemed panicked, but got up as I came into the room.
I picked him up in the blanket and took him outside.
He died in my arms but calm, not frightened.
The whole household was distraught and even nearly a year later the memories can bring us to tears ( yes it's hard to write this)
I've had cats all my life but never have two cats like Ziggy and Cosmo who got to me like these two.
Always friendly, always happy to be with you, no favourites they loved all the family but divided thier short lives between us all.
In short the best cats ever!
They now lay side by side and are helping a ornamental Acer grow in the garden.
So he could of caught it from that.
The link explains it all.
A week later we were given the sad news that he had the desease. We could of extended his life with medication. But he still couldn't walk, the breed is a climbing adventurous breed. So I made that awful decision and said goodbye ( the deed was done whilst I held him).
So of course our attention turned to Cosmo, it was going to happen he already had a bit if a runny nose. I made the decision to let him roam we have a road at the front of the house but not a busy one and all our neighbours had cats. I walked him about our drives and put a cat flap in ( works via the cats chip) so he could come and go between 10:00 and 20:00hrs.
He visited nieghbours made a friend or two and come home covered in twigs and leaves. Always if we went out side he'd come running up to us chirping and trilling as cats do.
Then he suddenly got ill, this was it.
One evening he came and sat with me as usual but wasn't right. His breathing was heavy and that tell tell yellow mucus was coming from his nose.
Later around midnight his breathing became laboured. I was keeping him clean and syringing water into his mouth. He seemed to get a little better so around 2am I made sure he was comfortable and left him on the sofa.
Early morning I heard an awful wail, my wife and daughter were already up, I came downstairs to find them both crying, Cosmo was breathing heavy but was short of breath, he seemed panicked, but got up as I came into the room.
I picked him up in the blanket and took him outside.
He died in my arms but calm, not frightened.
The whole household was distraught and even nearly a year later the memories can bring us to tears ( yes it's hard to write this)
I've had cats all my life but never have two cats like Ziggy and Cosmo who got to me like these two.
Always friendly, always happy to be with you, no favourites they loved all the family but divided thier short lives between us all.
In short the best cats ever!
They now lay side by side and are helping a ornamental Acer grow in the garden.
This sums the breed up, well they are wild cats that chose to allow us the privilege of being in our lives some 5000 years ago.
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