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I wanted to tell you about Little Romeo. ... Little Romeo came into our care late Thursday morning last week after being found in the mouth of a German Shepherd by the dogs owner. Whilst there were no obvious signs of injury from the dog, he was extremely emaciated, dehydrated and anaemic from the many ticks that we found on his frail little body.

The dog’s owner also advised that his neighbours had trapped an adult black cat a few weeks prior, so it could be assumed that perhaps this was Romeo’s mum and would explain why he was so emaciated…he was just too young to be left on his own and he really wouldn’t have survived much longer if not being found by the dog who brought him to his owner. We rushed him to our vet, where he spent the entire day on intravenous fluids and many ticks were removed from his little body in the hopes that this would quickly help with his anaemia.

He came back to us that night for lots of tender loving care, however this was a very sleepless night for us all as he just didn’t want to eat and with his weight at 900 grams which was significantly less than he should be.

He was looking a little better overnight but still really wasn’t eating and given the long weekend was approaching, on Friday morning he went back for more fluids and we hoped to get some blood out of his little veins for testing so we could try and determine why such a starving kitten wasn’t really wanting to eat. The blood tests upsettingly showed all the signs of him being starved.