Wish I could Thank The Person Who Helped Turtle
Turtle was one of the kitties I was worried about my little group of cats I feed at my apartment complex. Turtle was a young healthier looking cat when I first met him. He has the classic tabby swirl on his back like a little turtle shell. He disappeared for a year and came back grown but scrawny with patchy fur and what appeared to be an upper respiratory illness.
He was only a little trusting of me. He knows Turtle means him and he knows he can get food, water, and a place to rest without having to fight. He needs neutered thankfully the available ladies around my apartment are spayed. Getting him neutered is still part of my plan.
Anyway, thanks to a Redditor here I got Lysine and started to give it to the cats including Turtle when he showed up. He seemed better, then last week he was worse. Showed up late one night with goopy eyes. I couldn’t do much but give him two hearty portions of wet food he gobbled down with appropriate dose of Lysine. But I couldn’t grab him as I had no place to put him at that time. I did make a plan to grab him put him in a softcrate I prepared the next day if he showed up but he didn’t. Until last night.
He’d been gone about a week and he showed up for dinner looking worlds better. I thought I was imagining it since it was dark. But he showed up this morning for breakfast and though he’s still scrawny he was better! Someone had to have caught him and got him treated. I wish I could talk to them, thank them and work together to get him neutered and recovered.