The next cat we fostered was Venus. She came to us from the main foster home on Valentine's Day 2006. She was adopted out the week of April 11th 2006. Unfortunately this home did not work out for her and she came back to us the week of July 18th.


Not long after she came back to us we noticed that she was not acting right and had turned a yellow colour. We took her to our vets in Durham. She was diagnosed with "Fatty Liver Disease" a very serious illness in cats where the liver basically is not working properly. The chances of recovery were very slim. It treatment involved a process of intravenous fluids and eating several times a day. Jenn and I tag teamed it. To the vets amazement she started to pull through and now several months later she living in our house very happy and healthy. There is a major concern that this could reoccur so we will probably not be adopting her out as the risk of the change on environment is to great. She is happy playing and mixing with our animals. In fact, she is the only one of our foster cats that is out freely in our house. The rest are kept separated in different rooms of our house (every room is utilized!!).

This again another story why we believe in Snowflake as most other organisations would not have proceeded with the treatment, but, as there was a chance she would recover her quality of life we made the decision to proceed. As you can see from the story and the photograph above, taken earlier this year, it was worth it.

-Richard