This is Blackberry, my office cat. He usually hangs around outside and sleeps in our garage, but I let him stay in my office when it's cold. As you can see, he's taken over the place.
He's a stray who came to our house and adopted us. I took him to the vet to get him checked out and found out he has FIV -- feline immunodeficiency virus (the cat equivalent of HIV), which is highly contageous among the cat population. Which means he can't come inside and live with our other cats. Which is too bad, because he's very affectionate.
The vet said they usually euthanize the FIV-positive cats in the wild (otherwise they'd infect every cat they came in contact with, which could be a huge number), but I don't want him put to sleep just because he has this. He probably got it fighting off a mean cat somewhere, and it just seems unfair to do him in because he was fighting for his life. The vet said he could try to find a home for him with people who keep cats with this disease (which presents no problem since they all have it). I'm still deciding what to do. In the meantime, he's my office assistant, obviously campaigning for a management role.
3 comments:
Aww.. poor Blackberry. How horrible. I hate to hear that... but it is great that he can still stay without infecting your other cats.
I love Blackberry! He's so sweet. Maybe Steven and I will move into an apt that takes cats and we'll take him with us... maybe. :-)
Awwww! When we were there for Thanksgiving he kept jumping into Josh's lap!!! :-P hehehe!!
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