We got Danny about 10 years ago. He was the cutest little kitten with the longest rat like tail and a face to die for. He was the only male cat in the pack. He had such wonderful skills though! He hid all the time and ate in about 3 seconds. As the years went on, all of the cats seemed to get along fine. Danny still hid a lot but when he ate, it took about 6 seconds.

In late December 2008, I noticed blood in his urine and some strange habits. So I took him to the vet and they said to give him some steroids to release the swelling and he seemed fine. At the beginning of January I noticed even more changes and a lot more blood. I brought him back to the vet and this time he had an actual blockage. So they started treatment with a catheder and fluids and he seemed to be doing fine, and then they removed the catheder, he blocked up again. So they repeated the treatment.

In a five day time span, he went from bad to better but would have died because he couldn’t urinate on his own. So we opted for the surgery…he was doing great! We took him home the next day because there was a snow storm brewing and we didn’t know how long it would be before the animal hospital would be able to get care to him. They showed us how to clean him and take care of him. AN we were off! He slept pretty much the whole day on Saturday and Sunday. He didn’t want food or water, but we assumed that he was still drugged from the anestsia. So on the following Monday, we went in for the post op exam. The stitches looked great, but he was sluggish and he had a low grade fever. My vet said he wanted to put him in the incubator to warm him up and run some blood work. I got the call about an hour and a half later. It was truly heartbreaking. He was FelV positive. We saved his life to potentially loose him to this disease.

When we went to pick him up, the vet had explained again what had happened. Nothing came up in the blood work before surgery. Him immune system had been supressed and it came out. So now we are doing better. Each day is a blessing. He is still recovering from the surgery.