Rest in peace, Blackie. You were loved, you were cared about by so many, you were wanted by so many, and you will not be forgotten. Your life mattered. 🖤 * * * Today we made the difficult but right decision to euthanize Blackie, the black male Manx kitten. Upon intake we had difficulting sexing him because of urine- and feces-matted fur covering his genitals, and even after cleaning we had difficulties because of abnormal presentation. As the week has progressed, it became clear that Blackie was suffering from both incontinence and megacolon. And when we took Blackie in today, we discovered that his spinal cord ended INSIDE his rectum -- where his feces exited -- and that he did not an anus. Please, for Blackie, for his sister Froakie who is having struggles of her own, and for the countless other Manx/Bobtail cats out there who suffer, DO NOT SUPPORT INTENTIONAL BREEDING OF ANY CAT. Deliberately mixing defective genetics simply because of a desired visual outcome (a lack of tail) reaches so many levels of disgusting that I don't know where to begin. We love you Blackie, and we rest easy knowing you're resting easy. #kittenrescue #rescuekitten #catrescue #rescuecat #bobtailkitten #bobtailcat #bobtail #manxkitten #manxcat #manx #kittenbirthdefects #catbirthdefects #euthanasia (at Lancaster, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdezNOdMyfP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
