06/15/2026
This weekend has been a very emotional weekend.
Friday evening little Moses started to breathe weird & we took him into the ER. Prior to that he was eating, drinking, alert, cuddly, purring & had seemed to have cleared his symptoms of colitis & coccidia that he & his siblings had been treated for 2 weeks prior.
In the ER, they were initially going to prescribe him some antibiotics & send him home, but we asked for an XR & found this.
After going through a big history with the vet — no trauma, lived indoor only for a month, seen by a vet, started vax, dewormed, hadn’t drowned, no collar injuries… best guess was FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis) causing ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) & less likely an acute cancer.
Little man had been on our stories & even TT live earlier that afternoon.
While in the ED, Moses rapidly decompensated to where his oxygen chamber could not sustain levels that were healthy. We contemplated the $3800 treatment because he had been just so acutely sick, we had hoped he would get better… but the vet recommended against treatment & said he wouldn’t like have a successful outcome & of course we did not want him to suffer. So we let sweet baby Moses go 😭
In this same time frame, we had a situation unfold with one of our favorite dogs, who we posted with vague details that night — Ladybug. That situation was incredibly heartbreaking & frustrating at the same time. She is staying at the rescue barn & doing well. We will share more information & her update soon.
All I have to say is, sometimes the world seems so damn unfair.Rescue is hard. But in the year of 2026, there has been a lot of despair for SSPA. I hate wondering, when is it going to get better? I hate feeling that the world has less good people in it than it ever has. I hate feeling that the bad luck cloud will just not go away. People you thought you could trust surprise you. Situations you thought were golden, end up not being what you thought. You invest all this time & money only to feel like you failed-like you’re just not good enough. Like you didn’t work hard enough. And it honestly just gets hard to see any good because you’ve gotten so much bad news. 😖