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>>213771 I also adopted a kitten who was perfectly healthy when I picked her out. The shelter wanted to keep her to spay her, which was okay with me, but when I went to pick her up she didn't even look like the same animal. She was skinny, ears full of black shit, oozing from her eyes, nose, and mouth, and her butt was all diarrhea'd and ugh. The spay surgery at such a young age supposedly compromised her immune system, and she caught EVERYTHING floating around the overcrowded shelter.
Every time she shook her head, black gunk with blood in it flew everywhere. She was drooling because she had to breathe through her mouth because her mucus-y nose was so plugged. Every time she used to the litter, it smelled like concentrated death because she had worms, and I had to throw out all of its contents. Ever have a kitten rub on your leg and leave something wet and stinky behind? Yeah.
Fleas, worms, severe ear mites, upper respiratory infection... basically, yeah, everything. She'd just sit there and weeze, eyes gunked shut, drooling and too tired to move sometimes. The amount of medication I was making her take was awful, because anyone with cats knows how impossible it is to get them to take pills (much less several pills, several times a day, plus swabbing out+putting ear drops in horribly infected ears, plus liquid medication).
In short, she cost $1,000+ in vet bills within the first few months. Classic "if you can't afford the vet, you can't afford the pet" story. She grew up to hate me, presumably because of all the syringes I crammed down her throat.
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