26/11/2025
I can’t believe I am writing this just one week after Oreo but Yesterday we said goodbye to Adele.
Adele or Dell Dell/Delly was one of the sweetest babies I ever had the pleasure to care for. She was incredibly shy it took years to gain her trust. But once I did she was a purring cuddle machine. She loved every other cat and would head boop them as she passed them. She was also a food thief go would go around seeings who’s food she could steal and run away from me when she knew she had been caught.
Last Friday was the first time she let me fully pick her up. I couldn’t believe it and was sooo happy. But then I felt a massive lump and I knew straight away it was not good. I made an emergency appointment at Concord veterinary hospital and she had a massive tumour on her top left ni**le and more heading into her left lymph node. We also found more down the bottom between her 2 lower ni**les. Biopsy’s were taken and sent off to pathology as well as full bloods.
Monday I noticed her acting quieter and her appetite decreased she also was sounding congested so I booked an appointment to take her Tuesday. I went to check on her a few hours before our appointment and I didn’t like how she was breathing so we rushed her early.
They did X-rays and her chest had tumours and fluid surrounding her lungs. Her pathology results came back just prior to all this and confirmed she had mammary carcinoma which had spread to her lungs. We knew the kindest thing we could do was let her go.
Adele came into care with me in 2017. She was from a colony in the Sutherland shire where I had been asked to help trap another cat that needed medical attention. I was told about her and how she had just had babies and people wanted the cats gone. I knew the babies were in danger so we got her into care. She went to foster care with her babies and they were adopted into amazing homes. Delly was never deemed adoptable because she was just such an anxious cat that didn’t trust anyone. But I was determined no matter how long it took and I won. I’m so devastated I will never hear her precious meow again.
Thank you to the team at Concord Veterinary Hospital. Dr David, Dr Rebecca and Dr Bronte.
I would be lost without you all and your care and compassion. No matter how scared and unhandable a cat is you guys always treat them with kindness and respect and find a way to make sure they are looked after.
Thank you to Tash and Steve who fostered her for some time prior to coming to stay with me.
Run free my sweet girl. Thank you for trusting me and all the cuddles, head boops and meows. I will miss them Till we meet again ###
