UPDATE , 02.12.26 @ 10 AM

angel has passed away. we and our friends believe it was her time to go, and she did so comfortably in her cat be  tv box in a warm room. we woke up to her non responsive while still warm. 

it is very expensive here to get a pet cremated, so we would like to now ask a way smaller amount to get her taken care of after her passing. it costs 200 to actually cremate her, and the remaining 100 we're asking for is to travel back and forth to the least expensive crematorium 2 cities away — the public transit around here is not too great. we would appreciate any help we can get with cremating her. 

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angel is suspected to be a senior kitty, and we think her last tooth is rotting and the stress of it is causing parts of her body to literally try and give out on her, either that or the pain is making her try and give up or that she's physically entered a state of respiratory illness. she was generally an asthmatic cat before this that was self managed with some light medication that ended a few years ago from her previous vet with the consensus she was better without it, but her lungs suddenly sound overhauled with the slowest gaspy rasp noises 5 and a half hours ago and she's had a very rapid decline ever since she displayed some kind of freak fever 5 days ago and was cleared to wait until her original followup, but now has a priority appointment on the 20th.  

angel had a very hard life before coming into my family in 2022 and due to repeated trauma from before i owned her as a trailer park colony feral, she has remained fairly feral. she is known to hide away in or next to her cat bed enough to the point that we couldn't see she was sick until february 6th, about four hours after i made my survival fundraiser. i can't thank you all enough for that,  by the way- we received 234 dollars from that fundraiser! we've already agreed to put what's left immediately towards her appointment, but there's a deep fear that she needs more work done than the technicians guessed and more than we have left to afford because she exhibited sudden symptoms in the past week of freak weight loss and scruffiness. she ate and drank a few more times before her vitals chech, and they cleared her to wait just a bit longer for her appointment on friday, february the 20th. she has been a lot more cuddly and trusting in the months leading up to this and we thought her anxiety was finally easing, but it came back full force when she fell ill and she suddenly began hiding. all of this suddenly began in rapid succession over the past 5 days, with the greatest worry that she suddenly seems to worsen over hours at a time. my fiancé's heart is shattered, she is his original emotional support cat and their bond is unseperable. this is a cat that would crawl into our bed constantly to curl up and hang out to watch TV while getting full body massages and her personality has inverted. she was completely physically fine until the 6th when her face became swollen, then extremely tight and tense to her head like she's straining every muscle or somehow lost it.

she would't eat hardly anything and turned away from then only took smallerbites of her favorite food over several hours at first and went from drinking little bits of water to drinking water only, and as of writing this we had to move her out of her cat bed to another comfy spot because she threw up and got diarrhea on it too. 

she's also peeing outside of the litterbox, we can't tell how frequently she's peeing but that every other time we check we have to clean our litter mat of new pee since the litterbox is in our living room. she seems very disoriented and stressed out for some reason, and keeps gulping and drooling. she has dropped weight again, and every time we check on her she seems a little more worse for wear and a little bit lighter.  she keeps hiding her face away from light and making herself go back to sleep, she is severely lethargic.. she is completely disinterested in being petted anywhere but above her tail on her back in the last 24 hrs and her biggest response is a tiny acknowledgement purr if i massage around her rump where she loves to be petted, but she keeps hiding away her upper body and purring less.

she also hardly actually uses the litter box unless she's sitting in it waiting to be able to use it, which she hasn't even really used for a few days now. we have had to clean up after her mess and disinfect the floor 6 times.

she is severely lethargic and just keeps walking around in a confused state and giving my fiancé and i little responses while going between the same three spots, one of which was the cat bed that we had to bag to take to clean for her to use again. we just can't pinpoint exactly what's going on, since she's exhibiting so many different symptoms in such a short amount of time, but our biggest fear is her tooth is causing her issues or that she's gone into some kind of respiratory distress since she keeps rejecting food and vomiting water. i have also considered that she may have somehow developed some rapid onset of issues from cancer or diabetes since it's been a little while since she's seen her previous vet due to extreme financial hardship and she was all clear at that time for her bloodwork and general health

her ulcerated eye was checked in the past for general pain management, and they didn't see it bothering her. however,  she literally won't look up and open her eyes, so we don't know if that might be a problem. at this time, the humane society's vet is the only vet that can help us out the gate that will be able to fully help her recover at our appointment date while paying over time unless we raise a considerable amount of funds to pay one of our 24 hour local emergency vets, one that we trust because they already took care of our stray-found kitty valentine when she was in dire straits. the vet appointment that we could schedule the soonest at the humane society was taken specifically because they do income fixed prices and discounts for low income, and my fiancé and i are both between jobs and job searching.

we have another fundraiser we have been asking for help through for our family as a whole since multiple bills were going unpaid, and have put aside enough to take her to the base appointment after we got her and our other cats supplies with our groceries, but please know we only spent a portion of the donate money initially because of the original vitals checkover that she was okay to wait until that appointment on the 20th!! she's literally taken a sudden and very violent turn. if we need to run her to the emergency vet and they come out from the back and say she needs further treatment, we will not be able to get her additional funds raised because each service costs extra at the time of taking her. this is why we are making this separate fundraiser, as everything from this one is specifically for her emergency dental surgery and all else. funding from this website takes up to a week to send to us and we keep watching her get worse as time progresses

that being said, everything that the humane society vet does in my income bracket can cost from 40$ to 500$. the problem there is that we can easily update the fundraiser to reflect the true amount of her care if we go in with an amount up front and the estimate is even higher than expected for the humane society, but the greater problem is that the emergency vet will want full payment up front and we both do not qualify for care credit or scratchpay, plus, we don't know any current estimate for her type of care. as valentine was not our cat and did not have a microchip, we signed her care over to the clinic for financial responsibilities through one of their programs that helps keep sickly animals alive and off the streets, so we do not currently know how much their services generally actually cost.

here is a screenshot of what they offer and what the nurse on the phone from the vet hospital said she may need marked :

this is the guess from the nurse, but we suspect that she'll need x-rayings, ultrasounds, and potential surgery because of how poor she's doing. we're checking in on her at odd hours of the night as well as throughout the day, encouraging her to eat small bits of wet food and even unseasoned cooked pork and tuna that was in water, both her favorite meals. we tried to get her to eat anything at all that she would typically beg us for, but she was not into it at all. it's really scary.

anything at all helps us, and we'll post updates here that show her status and what we've been able to get done for her. please share this anywhere you can because our baby is absolutely horribly sick and my fiancé's last check of her pointed out she felt colder in temperature. she really doesn't even seem aware of herself or what she's doing. we're nervous everyone will want to put her down without the ability to pay the cost of significant care up front, and we want to help her overcome this if you're willing to help us out. we just want to see her happy again.

— fauna & lain