Tomorrow marks Scorch's sixth week with us. He finally stopped having burn medicine put on his face this week. He has a scar on the side of his face still.
His whiskers are going back nicely. He has been accepted and is now an official member of the Murrah Family.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Little Scorch is accepted
Scorch is now 20 days out from his ordeal. As you can see from the picture his face is about healed. The burns on his face are all that is left. He is just getting medicine on this face. The vet is not sure if the hair on his face will grow back but his whiskers are. He has finally been accepted by all the other cats. Tonight will be the first night he gets to sleep with the big cats.
He is adorable but quite fisty. That wildness comes out sometimes but between me, my family and four adult female cats, he is learning!
He is adorable but quite fisty. That wildness comes out sometimes but between me, my family and four adult female cats, he is learning!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Scorch Continues Making Improvement
Little Scorch continues to improve. Burns are a dynamic injury. This means that his wounds keep changing. His ear is now open so that needs treatment. The burns on his face are healing. He still has a large burn that has to have a hot compress twice a day. His feet still need hydratherapy and he is still on antibiotics and gets covered in ointment twice a day.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Scorch's Progress
Well little Scorch was burned much worse than it initially appeared. By Sunday morning that was apparent. You can see his face was burnt under the fur. By Monday, he stopped hissing all the time.
It is now Wednesday and the fur has now begun to fall off. He is such a trooper as evidenced by him playing with the mouse toy. He gets water run over his paws and for what we can, his face, twice a day with cream applied afterwards. He’s on antibiotics and is eating really good. He has special litter called Yesterday’s News that does not get in his paws and he lives in the guest bathroom when we are not holding him. He has pulled the burned hair off his back and we are thankful that the worst burnt paw is passing it’s worse part. He is blistered on all four feet so he will lose the cover of all of his other pads just like the one that was closest to his face. The burns on the rest of his paws are not as deep as the left front one so we are hopeful they will not get as bad as it has.
Come back regularly and check his progress.
Scorch the Cat
Friday March 25th was a very rough day for a small tabby cat from Hernando County FL. Although we are not sure how he got in the neighborhood where he was, we do know he must have been cold. He crawled up onto the engine of a Cadillac. Not knowing what to do when the car started, we know he had to have hung on for dear life. Scorch ended up on 86th Street and Palm River Road at a company called Transportation Control Systems.
As the days have passed, little Scorch's burns have become apparant, as burns do. What you can't see in the picture taken a few hours after he was removed from the hot engine, is there are burns all over the side of his face. As you can see his feet look like they have black on them. They don't. They are all really pink pads as all his feet are white. These are all burns.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Kites Sited in Area
Swallow Tail Kites have been seen in the area. This is a sure sign spring is on the way. Look to the skies for this magnificant bird. They catch their prey and eat it in mid-air. Here is a picture of one with a dragonfly in it's talons. This picture was taken at Lettuce Lake Park in Hillsborough County FL.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Ospreys in Safety Harbor Get a New Home
A big, big, thanks to CSX for paying for the ospreys new platform and pole.
EagleWatch, Audubon Center for Birds of Prey Volunteer Barb Walker, worked with CXS who footed the bill to move an osprey nest in Safety Harbor January 28, 2011 from their rail road lights over the road to a newly installed platform. Barb said "They have been WONDERFUL every step of the way! They showed up today to help with this conservation project and let us know that they will PAY for the pole and platform allowing us to install another pole and platform elsewhere!"
I was there to witness the relocatation the birds home. The ospreys watched us the entire time.
The whole CSX and Powertown Line Construction crews clearly cared what happened to the osprey.
Casey Jones, as the osprey has become known as, is a railroad entheusiast. We know that he was thrilled that his home has a perfect view of the tracks. He is the envy of all of the birds in the neighborhood! His new wife was flying around checking out their new digs before we ever left.
We wish them a long and happy life together.
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