2 Kittens Need Your Help

Please if you can spare anything for these 2 kittens.......... they may loose their eyesight.


A cross post from the Bideawee Site on these sweet babies:


Meet Sweetness and her five delicious little kittens: Flan Flan, Sorbet, Mousse, Pudding, and Tiramisu. Several times a day, Sweetness chirps a hello and her kittens hustle to crowd around her. She then promptly grooms each one of them as they nestle together for a family catnap.

Their names and faces may give you a tooth ache, but their story is, sadly, not nearly as sweet.

Rescued from the city shelter, Sweetness and her kittens faced tough odds of survival there. Although measures are in place to curb potentially fatal diseases, illnesses are common in municipal shelters and even something as relatively harmless and treatable as an upper respiratory infection (URI) can quickly turn deadly when a mother cat becomes infected and cannot nurse her kittens.

Within 48 hours of their arrival at Bideawee, it was clear that Sweetness and her kittens had been incubating a URI and had brought it along with them; they all got very sick, very quickly.

Because many diseases like this cannot be detected upon arrival, Bideawee takes very special care to properly isolate newcomers from the healthy shelter population, ensuring these illnesses do not spread. Taking these precautions is costly, but invaluable when it comes to caring for the cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens in our care.

Sweetness and her kittens' infections had rapidly grown worse and the infection had spread to their eyes. Once ulcers were identified forming on the kittens' corneas, Bideawee medical staff had little choice but to bring the kittens to a specialist to get an expert opinion-something this serious must be treated quickly and properly.

The specialist confirmed that the condition was dire and the kittens would require an intense treatment consisting of several costly medications. The illness and its treatment would also require constant monitoring and continuous administration of the numerous medications.

The treatment of everyone's URI has been right on track so far and Sweetness, Tiramisu, and Flan Flan have each responded very well to the additional recommended eye treatment. Sorbet has some corneal edema and slight asymmetry of the pupils, but we are optimistic that this will clear itself up without too much further treatment.

Mousse and Pudding, however, have not been so lucky. Despite the treatment, which has been so successful with their siblings, these two continue to have eye-related complications, which have in turn compromised their vision.

Without proper treatment and possible surgery, Mousse and Pudding will most likely lose their sight and possibly lose their eyes all together.

In order to keep their eyesight, Mousse and Pudding will need to undergo costly eye surgery in the very near future.

Won't you help these sweet little kittens today?

Donate today to help Mousse and Pudding get the care and treatment they so desperately need to save their vision.