The Life Of Heidi! Adventures of a Durham kitty in Devon.

[StewPots]

Evening all, this is a new thread all about gorgeous Heidi, following on from the thread started by Gatekeeper.

We answered her thread call to give this tiny kitty a new home and we drove from Devon to Durham and back in 24hours to do so...

Now Heidi is settling well at our place after being looked after perfectly by Gatekeeper, and this thread is all about the new life of a very little and brave cat with the bushiest tale known to catkind!

If anyone can link to the original thread it would be much appreciated :)

@overnightangel Haha! Apologies! I can only catch her when she's asleep in the bed so will get some later

Ha ha!! Hope she’s still loving her new home! 🙂

Here's Heidi Cat not on the bed and using her purr box whilst she gets a cuddle from DH :)

Awww such a lovely pic and Heidi literally looks like the cat that got the cream. Happy Heidi

She looks such a happy 🐈

Yep, cuddles certainly beat having fags stubbed out on you.

MrStew now has a free pass forever best Dh ever.

Haha he is indeed but I'm pleased to say it's me she runs after all the time. I'm her primary user slave

That is one contented looking mog! 😁

“You’ve driven a 600 mile round trip to pick me up DH so the least you can do is stroke me now I’m here! “

Morning all! She's kept me awake most of the night yowling again...no idea what for, she had a great dinner of gourmet kitty food plus nibbles of chicken from the roast...we are getting used to being boxed in the face early hours now to get up and tend to her every whim!

I did wonder if she was scared of the wind outside. Anyway here she is curled up next to me this morning having a clean and purring

Good morning Heidi...think you missed a bit...oh no you just got it Hope the upcoming vet trip helps with the midnight yowling!

And after 3 days of nothing, Heidi has now approached the tree and looks mischievous so I may have to remove the lights today....

Love the updates and pictures!

@StewPots I have just walked into my living room to this! Had to remove Sassycat's claw from my decoration

I don't think I've had a chance to say how gorgeous she is your DH is a bit of alright too ... don't worry I'm too old ! Clearly you were made for each other - I mean you and DH and Heidi ... oh dear.

@TheSassyAssassin that's brilliant - naughty little kitty! Ours is next to our tv unit so I'm waiting for Heidi Cat to figure out she can jump up there then into the tree!!

@YetAnotherSpartacus haha thanks! He's ok I suppose and yes, I knew she was meant to be mine from the off. She's settled in to our slightly crazy home perfectly - seems she enjoys adding to the noise

awww- lovely, lovely photos . Our lad not remotely interested in tree or anything other than prawns and chicken and our log burner!

Morning all. Bit of bad news this morning. Taken Heidi to the vet to see if she can get spayed etc. The answer was a flat no, she has a heart murmur :(

Vet is trying to get bloods from her now, looks like we will have to see a cardiologist at some point :(

It's all become very clear why she was dumped somewhere now, it all makes sense. It will be a massive finiancial strain no doubt about it but we will manage somehow, but it looks like she may be a poorly puss :(

Vet managed to get bloods without using a sedative, turns out Heidi doesn't like vets!

Utterly devastated. So all we know so far is that if she has low protein in her blood (find out in a week or two) then she will just need monitoring, or perhaps medication. If it's high then we are looking at surgery but vet said that's a high risk situation due to anaesthetic.

I just don't know what to think :( we all love this little cat :(

Stew Pots . I don't know what to say. Let's hope that it is the best possible scenario for you and little Heidi.

Wait & see what the results show. Lots of cats have murmers.

Our boy has a heart murmur we have to pill him three times a day, I googled the pill he was perscribed and our vets honoured the price I found on line, effectively giving us a lifelong discount on it.

May be worth thinking about once you find out for sure the route the vets want to take.

Our boy is absolutely fine we take him for quarterly check ups and his bloods and heart have come up normal everytime. He developed his heart murmur after we got him neutered. he is a Maine Coon cross with something else and the cheekiest thing ever.

Thanks for reassurance everyone :) vet reckons it's a grade 4 so we've started on blood tests and go from there.

I think she will probably need medication by the sounds of it. Still a bit of a shock an upsetting though. I reckon whoever had her got that diagnosis an just went "nope" and dumped her somewhere :(

She's not happy with us as she's hiding in a cupboard at the moment.

@fuzzywuzzy that's reassuring that your boy is ok. What grade was he?