Rachlp
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Hi everyone,
We first posted in the forums many months ago after introducing our Donskoy from Russia baby boy Donald Wrinklebum.
For all who remember we were experiencing some health issues with Donald such as an eye ulcer, snotty nose, leaky eyes and terrible diarrhoea and a UTI.
We got a lot of great advice from the forums and to be honest found some advice a little full on and a little much to deal with when already trying to do your very best so took a little break from the forums and posting and after going to the vet every week for around 2 months and then routinely for the last month, we finally are so thrilled to say Donald is a healthy thriving kitten who has transformed (will attach pictures).
I’m not going to lie, it was an extremely stressful, scary and worrying time trying to administer at one point three different eye medications and four different paste/tablets several times daily and being your kitten hate and run from you constantly just bought tears to my eyes.
As many may know we currently reside in an RV and are touring the world but are spending time in Mexico for around another 6 months and are so grateful to our vet who has put up with my tears and emails and constant poop and pew samples.
So the diagnosis was that doesn’t had some sort of a upper respiratory tract infection, an eye ulceration to his cornea (a slight scar and leaky eye as permanent damage), giardia and another rare internal parasite and all of the medication resulted in a urinary tract infection.
The two internal parasites were ruthless to say the least, we were disinfecting, medicating, washing, spraying, bathing, vacuuming and to this day we still wash our feet before coming into the RV, we kept going back and it would go only to be back a week later and hence why it’s been around 3 months. But we worked with our vet to get the best outcomes with vaccinations against parasites given we are travelling and are happy with results - despite many of you thinking vaccinations can sometimes not be the best option.
Donald has now reached 3.8 kilos which the vet said is great, he went in at 2.1 kilos and runs 1 in April.
We now just want to get out there and tell Donald’s story and that it can be scary when not buying from a reputable breeder and bringing home a sick kitten and will be creating an Instagram and age for Donald over the coming weeks so are hoping you can follow and support us and I just want to take some rest time to recoup and enjoy Donald and do some hobbies again - like reading pedigrees so if you want your pedigree looked at to make sure of you kittens colour, please message me, I will gladly look at it (I miss the days of being a registrar for a cat association in AUS).
We are teaching Donald new tricks, he now plays fetch, finally does nose kisses, and his newest trick is he rings a bell when he is told and then when he feels like a treat lol but we are having trouble with him being stubborn playing dead, so if you have any tricks please do let me know, I would be ever so grateful.
I would like to thank my rock @yasmine1997 and baby Casper my online bestie has been my strength throughout our journey and is my friend for life, we have been through so much together! Thank you!!
Here are some before pics of our sick little man.
Our healthy growing baby boy today
Relaxing by the pool
We first posted in the forums many months ago after introducing our Donskoy from Russia baby boy Donald Wrinklebum.
For all who remember we were experiencing some health issues with Donald such as an eye ulcer, snotty nose, leaky eyes and terrible diarrhoea and a UTI.
We got a lot of great advice from the forums and to be honest found some advice a little full on and a little much to deal with when already trying to do your very best so took a little break from the forums and posting and after going to the vet every week for around 2 months and then routinely for the last month, we finally are so thrilled to say Donald is a healthy thriving kitten who has transformed (will attach pictures).
I’m not going to lie, it was an extremely stressful, scary and worrying time trying to administer at one point three different eye medications and four different paste/tablets several times daily and being your kitten hate and run from you constantly just bought tears to my eyes.
As many may know we currently reside in an RV and are touring the world but are spending time in Mexico for around another 6 months and are so grateful to our vet who has put up with my tears and emails and constant poop and pew samples.
So the diagnosis was that doesn’t had some sort of a upper respiratory tract infection, an eye ulceration to his cornea (a slight scar and leaky eye as permanent damage), giardia and another rare internal parasite and all of the medication resulted in a urinary tract infection.
The two internal parasites were ruthless to say the least, we were disinfecting, medicating, washing, spraying, bathing, vacuuming and to this day we still wash our feet before coming into the RV, we kept going back and it would go only to be back a week later and hence why it’s been around 3 months. But we worked with our vet to get the best outcomes with vaccinations against parasites given we are travelling and are happy with results - despite many of you thinking vaccinations can sometimes not be the best option.
Donald has now reached 3.8 kilos which the vet said is great, he went in at 2.1 kilos and runs 1 in April.
We now just want to get out there and tell Donald’s story and that it can be scary when not buying from a reputable breeder and bringing home a sick kitten and will be creating an Instagram and age for Donald over the coming weeks so are hoping you can follow and support us and I just want to take some rest time to recoup and enjoy Donald and do some hobbies again - like reading pedigrees so if you want your pedigree looked at to make sure of you kittens colour, please message me, I will gladly look at it (I miss the days of being a registrar for a cat association in AUS).
We are teaching Donald new tricks, he now plays fetch, finally does nose kisses, and his newest trick is he rings a bell when he is told and then when he feels like a treat lol but we are having trouble with him being stubborn playing dead, so if you have any tricks please do let me know, I would be ever so grateful.
I would like to thank my rock @yasmine1997 and baby Casper my online bestie has been my strength throughout our journey and is my friend for life, we have been through so much together! Thank you!!
Here are some before pics of our sick little man.
Our healthy growing baby boy today
Relaxing by the pool