Rijko with crossed eyes in critical condition

Rijko is a young (3 years) male cat that used to live in a horrible place in Sofia. A place where there are several automobile service centres, warehouse bases, all this located on the busy ring road. Rijko and the other cats there had only one human friend - an old man, working as a security. He used to feed the cats and every year he used to see how babies of those cats die. He somehow found my contacts and call me to organize the castrations of female cats. This was when i met Rijko. I noticed he had a very charming look because his eyes were crossed. Sadly, this was the first and last time i saw Rijko healthy and walking.

After 2 days i received another call and learnt that Rijko is very ill, spinning in circles and with obvious severe neurological deficiency. No one knows what happened, we can only see the results - Rijko is in critical condition, unable to stand up or walk.

The first day he had 41 degrees temperature. But now he has a normal one. Very surprisingly he eats on his own despite being unable to stand up. Now he receives a serious therapy, several medicines, antibiotics and fluids. He has improved a little but he still has neurological deficits. The vets make different tests and diagnosis is still unclear. Vets need more time to see if the therapy has effect and make the necessary tests. Diagnosis varies from FIP to toxoplasmosis, to car accident, dog bite (he has two big wounds on his back), brain trauma and others.

We want to give Rijko a few more days and opportunity for the vets to put a diagnosis to his condition before we take the worst and final decision to end his life.

If someone wants to help us do this, please donate for his treatment. We would accept every small contribution with gratitude in our hearts and hope for the life of Rijko. Below i give bank details of the clinic. His name in the registry of the clinic is Korcho (which in Bulgarian means cross-eyed). If someone wants to donate, please write this name and also mine - Denitsa Avramova, so that your donation is directed to his bill.

This is him when i met him for the first and last time:

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And sadly this is how he is today:

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Bank details of Dobro hrumvane clinic:

Paypal: dobrohrumvane@abv.bg

Procredit bank EAD

BIC: PRCBBGSF

IBAN: BG27PRCB92301049061116

Thank you for reading and please send some good thoughts for Rijko!

Dear Kuzu, dear Eulena,

Thank you so much for your support! It means a lot to me!

I will post soon again to keep you informed hopefully with some good news!

I know Rijko also feels your support!

I hope soon we can give him a better name and a chance to live again, even if he is left with some disabilities.

Many many thanks ❤️

Rijko is doing so much better after two days of taking phenobarbital. They started him on this because he was in risk of hurting himself in the box due to the neurologist problems.

Vets still do not know what the diagnosis is. They try to estimate his development. Since the administration of phenobarbital, he became responsive and started walking. We still do not what the next steps will be but we are happy that he is up on his feet.

The clinic received one donation from Mrs Margot G. I am so grateful for that! From the bottom of my heart! With 7 cats currently at my home, Rijko bill is such a burden. So, thank you!

See the wonderful videos form today:

Nachteule, thank you soooo very much! I really appreciate every donor because I know that every person who decides to donate for something like this, knows he will not buy or use something for himself but just on the contrary. If you think about it, donating money or time or work is something really amazing in our world!

So thank to you too sincerely from my heart!

This is the place where Rijko lived with his family. I am happy to say that one of my animal rescue friends decided to give a foster home to three of the cats there after castration so they leave this horrible place and have a chance for a home! Only one cat is left there and in Friday we have appointment for castration for her too.

Ekbrand and Eulena thank you so much on behalf of Rijko! I truly believe that with his feline intuition Rijko is able to sense that thousands of kilometres away there are a few people who think "I care for you, small orange cat and I can help you despite being so far away physically".

Thank you for letting him in your hearts and minds!

If he continues to be as stable as today maybe we could think of finding a foster home for him. I believe he can find a forever home even if he must take phenobarbital for the rest of his days.

We will see.

Thank you all good people here for helping me help this small creature!

Hello, dear people!

A small update on Rijko and many many thanks to all donors who supported him!

The clinic confirmed that the donations have been received and i also sent confirmation to donors via personal message. I hope i did not miss someone!

Thank you so much for the relief i have felt thanks to you!

Rijko is still taking phenobarbital and he went to see a neurological vet specialist. He discovered that Rijko has a small chest bone which connects the ribs and it was broken as the X-ray confirmed. This means that Rijko suffered a trauma such as a kick in the chest or a car hit. Vets think this might have caused the neurological problems. So, the plan now is that he takes phenobarbital and antibiotics to treat the inflammation until 22nd. Until then he will stay in the clinic. After 22nd the therapy will be stopped and Rijko will be monitored if he will begin showing again neurological symptoms. If he begins again, then vets will need to make scan to Rijko brain and take spinal fluid to determine what the problem actually is. Those things are really expensive so i said that i am not sure if we can make those. If we do not make those tests, then he begins taking phenobarbital again and if the problem is epilepsy then it will be controlled with the phenobarbital. If he has not epilepsy but another underlying brain problem, then it is very likely that the phenobarbital will stop working at some point.

We will be hoping that after the therapy is stopped Rijko will not show any neurological problems. This will be the best case scenario. If he begins again, we will think what the options for him are.

For the moment he is feeling well and eating very well also.

The best news is that we found a foster home for him where there will be a person around all the time (home office work) so that Rijko will be closely observed.

It is a complicated case but we are very hopeful that Rijko will make a recovery and enjoy the foster home soon!

I will of course update all donors here for his development.

Thank you all very much again!

Let`s all keep fingers still crossed for the small orange boy!

Today the charming boy was discharged from the clinic and placed into a foster home. Now we hope and pray that he will not have neurological symptoms!

Thank you for the donations which made me leave the clinic today without the embarrassing feeling that I owe them money! Me and Rijko will always be grateful to all of you!

Keep fingers crossed for him!

and a short video from today. He is alert and curious. Let's hope he will have a wonderful new life!

Enjoying first day of a new life!