So for anyone looking at my work, I am open for doing tons of commissions and please expect to see more YCHs here in the future. Please post any suggestions you have for poses and ideas and make shout outs if you feel like it.

A little over a week ago, my newest rescue Cassatt (the tuxedo) got very sick. While a friend was visiting for the weekend, she started throwing up uncontrollably every half hour to forty five minutes. An emergency vet visit got me some anti-nausea medicine that proved ineffectual and the next morning kitty was in the hospital. As I know many pet owners who read this are aware, we were never really quite sure why she got so violently ill. They insisted for a while that there was a bowel obstruction, but she is an indoor only cat and I am pretty good at keeping hazardous materials away from my furbabies. Also the x-rays and blood tests really yielded nothing. Their best guess is that it was some nasty stomach bug...that nearly killed her. With the help of IV fluids and a lot of other concoctions, Cassatt has seemed to bounce right back. The only way you can tell she was ever sick was the fact that they shaved her front leg for the IVs. Words cannot describe how relieved I am to have Cassatt back with me, healthy and playful again.

She is a very young cat that had just turned about a year old a few months ago. I found her outside my old apartment going door to door crying for someone to let her in. (Yes, she was literally doing this.) She was also a HOT mess. She has intestinal parasites, fleas, a mild heart murmur, and was pregnant. The one saving grace she had was negative for Feline Leukemia, so I was able to keep her. For a cat that probably never had a home, she is sooooo friendly and a big smoocher. I need to get a good video of her sometime doing one of her intense cleaning routines on my head. She is nothing if not thorough.

Long story short, all the tests, medications, and hospital stay really added up. (I don't feel comfortable revealing specifics, but it was over 1,000.) I was able to open a care account that allows me to pay off the vet bill in six months without interest, but I know that I won't make it on my work pay alone and I am royally screwed if she or my other cats gets sick again. So please support my work if you can, when you can. The support that had already come in has been profound and really touching. You guys rock.