by: Terrie Lynn Bach
Just before Mother’s Day, we got an urgent message regarding an emaciated, friendly cat who wandered up to the home of our TNR volunteers who lives in Smithville.
Bastrop CATS got this very sweet, very sick kitty into the vet and posted lost cat notices in the local lost and found pet page. Samuel, as we named him, was neutered but not microchipped. He was having diarrhea, not eating very well, and was very dehydrated. The amazing volunteer, A, who found him, started him with fluids and getting him to eat. Our vet said he had intestinal bacterial overgrowth, hookworms, and coccidia! Fleas and ear mites, too! Poor guy!
Samuel went back to his finder/foster’s house with meds and a plan to get him well. Everyone was praying and crossing paws that we got him to the vet in time to save his life.
Then almost two weeks later, late one night, we received a message from a person who said she thought we had found her lost cat. Owner K sent us pictures. Three of us studied them and agreed that, except for the extreme weight loss, the facial and leg markings looked like a match!
Within 24 hours, Henry, the cat temporarily known as Samuel, was reunited with his family again after being missing for nearly a month!
Henry is a fluffy, 16-year-old tuxedo senior cat, who originally lived with K’s mother in rural Kentucky. When her mom passed, K gave Henry his next furever home.
We think Henry is one lucky kitty– and that Hank the Cowdog has nothing on the Bastrop CATS team!