Wrigley is enough of a kitten
that his purrsonality, like his body, is still under construction.Wrigley is enough of a kitten
that his purrsonality, like his body, is still under construction.
Check out his siblings, Rosie, McCormick, Chrysler, and Capone.
Unbeknownest to anyone, his mother had found a wonderful woodpile at the back of a yard that looked like a safe place to have her five kittens. Things were fine, although the heat index hovered around 100 degrees. Then one day, when the kittens were three weeks old, she left her hideaway to find food and never returned.
The nice family who belonged to the yard heard the hungry kittens calling for their mom, and after waiting to see if she would return, brought the kittens to the Coralville Animal Clinic. The people were on their way out of town (can you guess where?) for the weekend. These bottle-fed babies are getting daily baths and lots of handling.
Wrigley was the smallest (and the most wiggly) of the litter. He didn't seem to catch on to bottle feeding like the others. At times, it looked like there was something in one of his nostrils. We thought maybe he had a congenital respiratory track problem. Wrigley was not getting enough nutrition to maintain his weight and he began to fail.
A fly had laid her larva in Wrigley's nose. The cuterebra larva grew and completey blocked one of his nostrils. (At this age, kitten nostrils are only about 2 millimeters in diameter.) We'll spare you the gnarly details, but when the cuterebra was removed, it was about the size of a Japanese beetle grub! Wrigley still has some catching up to do, but he's feeling much better.
DOB: 7/13/01--Male
Wrigley likes: N/A
He dislikes: N/A
Our scale ranges
from one to four paws:
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Confidence level: N/A Adaptable to change: N/A
Activity level: N/A Plays well with others: N/A
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Page last updated: 8/21/01.