Changes ........

There have been more changes here in the josiekitten household, for the worse. We started off the summer holiday with 2 members, then went up to 4, and sadly now we are 3. Poor little Elsie had to be put to sleep today. We noticed at the weekend that she had been dribbling some blood, so made an appointment at the vets to get her checked out. It took both Mr JK and I to get her into her basket and she was completely stressed out. The vets did a blood test for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, and needed to sedate her in order to get the blood sample. That proved negative, which is good news for Florence, as it means it won't have been transmitted to her. However, when they looked inside her mouth it was in a terrible state, with lesions, gum inflammation, pus and blood clots. The vets agreed that there must be some other underlying condition to have caused this to develop so suddenly, and given that Elsie was so stressed out by any sort of handling, they advised us to have her put to sleep rather than to face a lifetime of treatment and trips to the vet. It's no wonder that she was so anti-social, she must have been feeling really rotten with her poor mouth. She was a sweetie though, and we did manage to have some lovely cuddles together. Sleep well Elsie. xxx