J.J. (f.k.a. Cinders), Bear, & Monkey

Cinders, who was renamed J.J. when he went to his new home, is shown lounging on the "pillow" cat (Bear) in the picture above. We recently got some sad news about him from Ralph and Nancy:

We have sad news about Cinders. We had to euthanize him on Sunday night because he had the wet form of FIP. We noticed that he was having difficulty breathing on Sunday so we took him to the emergency veterinarian. She gave us the bad news and we were in shock. He had been to the vet three times since January because he never seemed able to shake the cold he had when we originally picked him up back in August. He would get better for a while and it always seemed to come back three or four weeks later. FIP has a 100% mortality rate and she said if we took him home he would be suffering. She compared it to us breathing through a coffee stirrer, that is what he was feeling. His pleura would eventually build up so much fluid and he would not be able to breathe.

He was a great cat and were are extremely sad to see him go. We would like to think that God made him so beautiful that we came to see him at Stoltzfus and as a result we came home with his two cousins as well. We renamed Cinders to J.J. since he immediately took to Jesse, hence the name Jesse Junior.

We also renamed his cousins to Bear and Monkey which are fitting names if you met them today. Monkey looks and acts like a spider monkey and Bear lumbers around the house like a big grizzly. We are sorry to let you know about the bad news and we hope that all is going well with GSAR.

Nancy and Ralph, we're so sorry to hear about your loss. Thank you for making J.J.'s last months as good as they could be. We hope that Bear and Monkey are a comfort to you during this time—they look like a couple of characters!


Monkey


Bear