https://www.abccatrescue.ca/blog daily 0.75 2025-06-04 https://www.abccatrescue.ca/blog/fava monthly 0.5 2024-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/c4f0fe22-1187-4cad-9469-24a94d647536/3679ed0a-147e-4083-852f-0a097fb39ff9.jpg Blog - Fava - I like to theme name kittens so mama and kittens in the litter were types of beans. Mama Mung with kittens Navy, Adzuki, Lima, Fava, and Garbanzo. All voids but Fava has been a special journey for us and her fosters. Cleft palate kittens are difficult to raise. You need to tube feed them from birth until they can eat small kibble whole which is around 6+ weeks of age. They are often prone to infections and it's hard to tell if it's just the cleft palate that has an issue or if there are potentially other issues going on affecting compatibility with life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/e733bfe4-005d-4ba4-a029-1e8312204d26/2f34a686-5c87-4ea8-89bc-b310ec1d2c0e.jpg Blog - Fava - Being a small rescue that does about 200 cats and kittens a year, Fava and Garbanzo were my 2nd and 3rd cleft palate kittens. Several years back I had Sapphire who didn't make it despite being tube-fed. So, finding out I now had two at once had me so worried, especially since I'm not the one who tube-feeds them. We managed to get them to the foster quickly and they had both been doing well until Garbanzo passed. I was incredibly worried about Fava getting sick and passing so I managed to get a serious antibiotic from my clinic that was essentially meant to only be used in life-or-death situations. Luckily, we never needed to use it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/7aac0947-0880-48d4-b525-b1003b7c785a/5992f0df-9a34-42ad-b197-3515852151be.jpg Blog - Fava - This was all back at the end of August and Fava had her first cleft palate surgery in early February. We left early in the morning to pick her up from her amazing foster to make an 8:50 am appointment where they did the consultation, we discussed her surgery, and they took her in to have surgery that day. We stayed in the city for the day so we could collect her at the end and take her back to her foster but there had been a delay, so she hadn't started her surgery yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/21231796-f0a9-4b5c-9fec-a8e35994fd08/047cc601-1e80-47a0-8d70-1f3717bca753.jpg Blog - Fava - They let me know that I would have to carry her wrapped in a towel because she kept flailing every so often and they didn't want her to pull her stitches. Okay, no problem, I can do that. They handed me her wrapped up, I got into the passenger seat with some difficulty, and we started going to the clinic. Looking at her she worried me. She was shaking and then occasionally would flail; it was hard to not think of the worst possible outcome. I grabbed a photo for her foster who I had been updating the entire time things were happening. She is so loved by all the people who have helped us care for her and they were all worried as well. She tried to flail a few times and I did my best to keep her from moving too much so I was very thankful that the emergency clinic was just down the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/2618b85e-844c-482c-8c59-245a276ced46/a3ed090d-a1b5-44b7-9397-b90d7210ab58.jpg Blog - Fava - They brought her to the room I was in so I could see her before we left. She looked a lot more alert than when we were transporting her in the car. After that we were able to head home, we brought her after-surgery supplies to her foster, who thankfully lived not too far away and we were able to head home to finish off our long day. Her foster was approved to pick her up the next day as she was doing post-surgical care, so we didn’t need to make the trip out there to get her discharged from the emergency vet. That’s not quite the end of her story though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/c2ab3b1c-cdc7-42aa-9ca2-755032478cdd/427736413_3179278442381178_4688114312478831177_n.jpg Blog - Fava - 2 pm comes by and I get an update from the foster that just before she gets there Fava started bleeding from her nose again. Shit. They let her visit with her and then said her discharge would have to be pushed back until 5 pm. Thankfully the bleeding stopped and Foster was able to collect her at 5 pm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/a9a17217-4d36-4c2a-9f59-b014baf53c40/427039965_1294182038641786_1111293873132596010_n.jpg Blog - Fava - 10 pm roll around. Foster messages me letting me know that Fava has Jello-like consistency mucus that she has to suction out of her throat. We were concerned that if it didn’t clear or the foster didn’t notice it in time she wouldn’t be able to breathe. Back to the emergency clinic. Foster waits at the clinic and I’m just staring at my phone not wanting to miss a single update. And we wait, and wait, and wait… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/5843197e-ed17-46d5-896d-9daf3d190359/428042839_831382992084590_3051257503872847226_n.jpg Blog - Fava - From then on it was a matter of how long she could stay out of the emergency clinic, each day that passed made it less likely that she would have issues and need to go back and after a few days it seemed like things were going well that she would only need to go to her follow-up appointments with the clinic that did her cleft surgery. First, follow up. Things are looking good although it is recommended that she gain weight. She salivates when being fed through the tube after a bit so small, frequent meals are given by her foster. After a week she could have soft food by mouth and a few days later they took out the feeding tube. She was so happy to have it out and the protective cone off of her neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/00bddfd1-136f-46a1-91c2-b8945056d75b/431398393_2243120742709280_7864981627495144388_n.jpg Blog - Fava - Things seemed to be going well but then at the beginning of March, the foster noticed that Fava seemed a bit sneezy and when checking inside her mouth it looked like two small holes opened in her surgical site (this was expected), and that it looks like there is some pus. This was typical before her surgery, she had to stay on antibiotics because she would get infections anytime she was off of them, there was even one time when pus was flowing out of her mouth before the decision to keep her on antibiotics permanently was made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c3575dc82e671febdd86bc/6322ccfc-58d8-4c7b-a616-78c871edf48d/434236116_859169139309888_7418349499506625989_n.jpg Blog - Fava - Just over a week later at her planned follow-up appointment she has finally gained weight, at least 400 grams which is amazing. 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