Thread: Is my rescue kitten a Maine Coon? :-)

Hello & a belated welcome to you both & MickB knows his MC kitties so great to see his post,you are lucky to have found each other & will look forward to seeing what name she is given.....x

Hello hello!
Well, I have finally named my sweet little girl....her name is Bizzee (as in "busy") because she is such a bundle of energy.

In my original post I had mentioned that when I found her, the end of her tail was missing and Vet said the tissue was dead and would either fall off or she'd need surgery to remove that dead half of her poor little tail. Well Wednesday the end seemed to be puffier and I feared there was pus inside that was building up/causing pressure. Took her to Vet, they clipped the area and soaked it and (warning if you have a weak tummy!......) tons of pus came out and necrotic tissue fell off. She bandaged tail up and we scheduled her for surgery yesterday, and while under to spay her as well.

She did well with the surgery and I picked her up yesterday afternoon at 5:30pm. She was purring up a storm. She was not impressed with the huge plastic cone (way too small for a little kitten). They shaved her entire tail, removed the dead/infected part and stitched up the end. I brought her home and put her in "her bedroom" (lol) and she was so happy. Didn't even have that typical "googly/glazed eye look" that cats often have after surgery from all of the drugs. It was a total struggle to keep her from wanting to play. I fed her small amounts of canned food every hour and she was starving!! Never saw a cat lick a plate so clean LOL. I took the cone off of her while I was with her. I didn't have the heart to leave her in the room alone overnight so I grabbed a quilt and slept on the floor with her but she just wanted to play. My back was killing me! So I took her into my bedroom and she snuggled up beside me and we slept.

Until..........I woke up at 3:15am and she was nowhere to be found. My heart stopped. My bed is very very high and I do have a bench at the end of it but whether she'd know to use it, no idea. I found her in my other spare bedroom, just jumping off that bed. UGH. So back to her bedroom we went. I did give her something for pain about 1am.

This morning I went into her room to feed her and she wasn't there. My heart stopped. No real places to hide at all. I have a cabinet with drawers that I sit my printer on, she wasn't underneath it. I was panicking. Finally I heard a noise and I opened up the big long bottom drawer...............and there she was, sleeping on top of a pile of books and manuals. LOL. She's done it again today so now I have to figure out a way to block the area she crawls into. My God that area is about 2 inches wide, how she gets up in there I don't know. What if I'd been gone all day? I don't think she'd know how to get out?

Anyway here are some pics I just took of her....showing her sweet little tail that will hopefully have new fur on it sooner than later LOL

Hello Bizzee! What a sweet name. Hopefully her tail will heal quickly and the fur will grow back soon. Lovely to see new photos and to know that her spirit isn't dampened by all she's gone through. Never ceases to amaze me the new places my two end up choosing to have their nights' sleep. She looks more and more like a MC too x

I needed to read this story after hearing about 92 dogs dumped by backyard breeders going out of business in my neighborhood. 92 Dogs Dumped Along Texas Roads, Cops Say Illegal Breeder Responsible

Bizzee looks like a classic Maine Coon.