RIP Peanut / Foster Pictures

Peanut died tonight. The FIP test was indeed positive, but the vet assured us our other cats were unlikely to develop it. FIP is a mutation of the corona virus which many/most kittens are exposed to when they are very tiny - especially in a multi-kitten place like a shelter. Most kittens fight it off, but a few develop into FIP. The vet thinks Peanut had it when we first brought him into our house (it isn't something routinely screened for) and it just finally got to be too much for him to fight off. Sati & Boulder aren't too young, too old, or too sick where they are likely to catch anything...plus the vet doubts Peanut was "shedding" the virus by the time he was in our place - he would have already had it (and the kitten really only sheds it before he gets sick). Poor little guy. He never stood a chance.

I wish we'd had longer with Peanut: he was a great cat/kitten. It is good to know his 7 months were 7 months he wouldn't have otherwise had if we hadn't stepped in - and in those months, he slept next to a comfy husky dog, played with another cat every day, and bonded with his humans. Those are good things.

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I wanted/needed something happy to post, so here are our current batch of foster cuties:

Peach
who you've all seen before
(feral kitty when it comes to wet food; he's now quite the little hunter)

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Bingo

(Peach's long-lost twin)
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Shrek
photo is a little fuzzy - I was trying to show his cute, squished face
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The Miestro
(he came with another little one that didn't last the first night)