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Meet Edgar

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thecatneuterer · 25/09/2016 15:16

I just felt like sharing. Admittedly he's not the prettiest of cats.

I picked him up in the street just round the corner from me two days ago. He was unneutered, starving, filthy, flea-ridden and with a mouth full of broken and rotten teeth.

He hasn't stopped eating since I took him in, despite obviously being in pain from his mouth, and has already put on a lot of weight. He is even quite a bit cleaner, again despite the problem with his mouth.

The plan is to get him neutered and to have a dental as soon as possible. Then, as I expect no one will be falling over themselves to adopt him, he will end up joining my gang. What's one more after all?

(the dirty pink stain on the sheet in the first photo was as a result of me flea combing him with a damp comb. The water in the bowl turned a very dirty, dark red).

I imagine he became stray, as most unneutered males do, because he left home to chase a female and couldn't find his way home. That was obviously a long time ago though.

Meet Edgar
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Vinorosso74 · 05/12/2016 22:58

Oh Edgar, am pleased he's home. Hope he finds the kitten, she must have missed him.

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Lanaorana1 · 05/12/2016 20:45

Best news of the year!!!!!! How completely brilliant you are TCN.

I am so delighted about Edgar having a home. I didn't want to ask in case it looked like stalking when you so busy, but three massive cheers from me and Mr C. He was trying so hard to be accepted. He just wanted to be loved.

Edgar is an exceptional person and may you, LSK and he all have the most blissful reunion with plenty of gin and dreamies.

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cozietoesie · 05/12/2016 20:23

Blighter! Grin

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thecatneuterer · 05/12/2016 20:21

Another quick update. Edgar went out of the cat flap for the first time about two weeks ago and didn't come home. I had put a Loc8tor device on his collar but, despite extensive walking of the streets, couldn't pick up a signal anywhere.

Today I tried walking a little further than I had before and got a signal. I tracked him down to a front garden where he was sitting under a tree. He seemed ok. A bit thinner but fine. So now he is back home and seems very happy to be back and is sleeping and purring a lot.

He hasn't yet said hello to Little Sick Kitten, who is still little and probably sick, but happy enough.

And yes, I have no intention of trying to rehome Edgar as there just aren't enough homes so I know it would be very difficult, and there is no room at all for him in our shelter. So I will hopefully continue to be able to give updates on him for years to come :)

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Lanaorana1 · 12/11/2016 19:56

I am hoping TCN will find a place in her life and her bed for her own Edgar to stay. I have been thinking about him all day, as it happens.

I couldn't bear his fat loving heart to be hurt again. Please, TCN. He is so beautiful and he is trying so hard. And you need all the help you can get. And you will have a head-sleeper every night. Bliss.

Thanks M I sense you are on side and more tactful than me :)

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RubbishMantra · 10/11/2016 23:02

I bloody love Edgar. That's all I can say. And the before and after photographs speak for themselves. Now he's all plump and sleek, he reminds me a lot of my own beloved MCat.

And like Lana says, he's made himself indispensable as Head of Comforting Sickly Kittens.

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Lanaorana1 · 10/11/2016 22:15

TCN Edgar loves you and Little Sick Kitten and this is his home now. In case you hadn't noticed. :)

He is a cat of Churchillian nobility, and he has met his person in you, no slouch in the fine person stakes either.

Edgar is helping you with the other cats, he is a partner in every sense of the word, not a pet or a lodger. He is working as hard as he can to help the house and the other cats (in his own way). Please let him stay.

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cozietoesie · 10/11/2016 21:09

Poor wee lass. I guess she'd just have faded away if it hadn't been for Edgar. And you of course. Smile

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GRW · 10/11/2016 20:58

What a lovely pair Edgar and the little kitten make. It would be good to find them a home together.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 10/11/2016 20:52

Lydia must be some cat to dominate so many. Good for Edgar.

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thecatneuterer · 10/11/2016 20:46

Yes Mantra, he is becoming quite an affectionate cat, in a quiet sort of way. I'd still be happy to find him a proper home though. It would make space for another Edgar in need if you see what I mean.

He very much likes to be in the bedroom when I'm there and has made it clear to Lydia, the house Top Cat, who had previously claimed the bedroom for herself, that he is going to be there whether she likes it or not. And then in the day he is with Little Sick Kitten.

Little Sick Kitten is doing ok. She seems happy and eats well and purrs like crazy. She just isn't very lively and isn't really growing. It's very strange.

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RubbishMantra · 09/11/2016 21:42

Edgar slept wrapped around your head, eh TCN?

I suspect you wouldn't be keen to give him up for adoption now, you're his person.

Tis amazing how they know, without understanding any actual words, that all the poking and prodding from the vet comes from a place of care.

I imagine he was in cat heaven, pain free, safe, full tummy and a person to whom he could be a scarf/russian hat.

The MantraCats and I send healing thoughts to his little sickly kitten friend.

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cozietoesie · 09/11/2016 20:47

How are they doing, TCN? Smile

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cozietoesie · 03/11/2016 10:40

Yes indeed, sadly.

Hope she does OK today. Smile

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thecatneuterer · 03/11/2016 10:30

Cozie. I'm sure the mother was young. Feral mothers generally are. They don't seem to live that long when they have litter after litter.

Mantra - yes Edgar is sleeping now. He has become a standard-issue lazy cat. He's not eating or grooming excessively and likes to snooze.

I'm sorry to report that he abandoned Little Sick Kitten last night and slept wrapped round my head. Little Sick Kitten has a heated bed though, so she was OK I'm sure. He's back with her now.

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Lanaorana1 · 02/11/2016 22:36

I am prac in tears at the emotional beauty of the feline friendship too M.

Mr C waves a paw. He spent the day in bed at the weekend and had a droopy eyelid, so we're vetting tomorrow.

He has asked me to tell Seniorboy MCat and LittleM that he recommends Hi-Life chicken indulge me! He also says Edgar would find it very spiritually healing after his ordeals.

I should add definitely not on his behalf that at prac a quid a pouch one needs to be feeling not so much indulgent as hypermanic, but that it looks v toothsome, like chicken in consomme jelly.

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RubbishMantra · 01/11/2016 20:23

It's beautiful how Edgar's become Little Sick Kitten's friend and protector. I really hope she'll be OK. She's so tiny.

Is Edgar sleeping now? I remember at first you posted he didn't sleep, just groomed himself all the time. I wonder if her grooms her?

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cozietoesie · 01/11/2016 20:18

Do you recall if her mother was young?

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thecatneuterer · 01/11/2016 20:01

That was the first thing they checked for Mantra. She was with her mum who seemed perfectly healthy.

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RubbishMantra · 01/11/2016 17:58

I expect the vet's already checked for FIP, TCN? Was she found with her feral mum, or on her own?

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cozietoesie · 01/11/2016 16:57

Ah well. If she's enjoying her life........

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thecatneuterer · 01/11/2016 16:51

Gincat is lovely. It is so rewarding to take on difficult to home cats.

Cozie: the little girl kitten seems relatively ok. She can walk now, although she doesn't seem to want to. She must be around six or seven months old, but is the size of a ten week old. And she is very sedate, she doesn't run or play. However she loves to eat and loves cuddles and can purr for England, so I think her life is worth living. But there is obviously something very wrong. We just don't know what it is.

She was also the only surviving kitten from a feral litter (we assume there must have been more) so perhaps they all had something wrong.

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cozietoesie · 01/11/2016 12:50

How's the little girl doing?

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GinAndOnIt · 01/11/2016 07:09

Curtains! Yes he does! I've never noticed that before, how utterly stylish he is Grin

GinCat woke me up this morning by sitting on my head and pawing my shoulders. He's so funny, he has to be as close as possible to me at all times. I tell DP it's because he knows I chose him from the rescue. That can be the only rational explanation. DP tells me I'm crackers.

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RubbishMantra · 01/11/2016 02:48

MCat likes to curl into my feet, Lana on his baby blanket for the night, (mmm, toasty). Little M into the crook of my knees. Then about 5am he decides it's time to get under the covers, and plucks delicately at my PJs until I lift the duvet up. He gets in and curls right into me so I have a little floofy, curly person that feels like silken crushed velvet to cuddle. I'm pretty sure Little M would stay under the covers all day - well he actually has done when I've been ill. I think he likes to pretend he's ill too, and will lift his head up to accept Dreamies, stashed in the bedside table drawer.

Gincat's beautiful, how contented he looks. He reminds me of Signor MCat, who also has the half mustachioed thing going on. And the black markings on the top of his head remind me of the late 80s hairdo for men - The Curtains! Put some Happy Mondays/Stone Roses tunes on, and see if he appreciates it. Grin

And Fluffy, if people are going to acquire a certain breed, surely researching the hell out of particular breed beforehand is common sense. Not just give up on it because it behaves like it's supposed to. What do people expect from a cat not far removed from a wild cat? Really nice that you're going to adopt an abandoned Bengal when the time comes.

I wonder how many Servals and Savannah cats will be abandoned for the same reasons. Sad

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