welcome back tomorrow in here with you we r
fundraiser this is the last day of our annual
one week fundraising drive for the hunter school
and a with at Lori let me know yesterday the
that we have raised ten thousand dollars which was our are
boy do we hope we can hit that goal because that lets us put a new roof on
one of the houses
and get basically new kitchen for another one
and arm and and
paint the outside the school um we would really like to raise
another roughly ten or fifteen actually to pave the driveway
because this is a major problem Inc increasingly major problem and on and
also we need to buy generators for the houses
this is the last day to do it so
arm I the toll-free number to call and make a donation at Hunter school
you can of course go on the website her school .org unjust
follow the Dhoni to thread in are you can donate by credit card or by pay-pal
but if you want to call and talk to a person 800
897 8358 800 897 8358
and if you want to talk to the people to her school as the many questions about
what they're doing
there regular you know phone number 2603 is the area code
in new hampshire in fact it's as I recall its 603 786 9427
it was my home phone number my phone number for
five years when I ran the program back in the seventies I think I still have it
memorized
are but anyhow the the the number where they can take a credit card is 800
897 8358 and I'd like you to consider even
today today kind of a special date give you $10 donation
I E those are you have been long time watchers in
listeners to this program know all about our cat Higgins who
we our son had rescued a fifteen years ago
from a a frat house road or my
I forget which was but these the boys had
a locked him in the in the bathroom with a pit bull for
several weeks he had been a feral kitten and
used to throw me against the wall his only water source have been the driving
dripping faucet in a in the shower and so
you know the right up until
this last week whenever he could get your shower he would sit underneath the
shower head meow and ask us to drop the water for him
and all the Fed are the only fully get was pieces and terra chips and so you
constantly
you know those commit our house he would tear literally tear packages apart to
get them
any attacked everybody anyhow
Higgins as you know has been sick and we
tried a lot we went through a whole series about visits and it finally
became apparent that he was
almost certainly die of liver cancer and
as a Louisa been force feeding him for the last she's I don't know
ons month-and-a-half a you know grinding up cat food every day and and feeding
him with a
withered 20 cc syringe just you know scored into his mouth
because he wouldn't he and
a de ver este he just started refusing to allow her to do that
he would you know he he he would not open his mouth he spit it out when she
put it in
and so and hear any was down to just skin and bones he even has muscles were
disintegrating he was you could you could pay damages feel every vertebrae
every rib everything
and so we decided up
you know with on the advice all so far about that it was time that Higgins was
in kitty hospice
and arm so we put him
on the a painkiller tram at all
Anna and relax and Valium and
ways just she stayed home yesterday I and
actually most of Thursday and yesterday and just to be sure if every three hours
every four hours beginning in his pain killers as valium so that he was relaxed
and he was fine
and at some point yesterday
early in the day he basically lost the ability to move he
his whole body just kinda shut down
and um at
but he kept his eyes open any and everytime Louise left the room he would
meow he would say you know don't leave me and
faintly but he would do so and so she took him into the bedroom with her and
she worked from the bedroom on a computer all day yesterday
and I just kept giving him all the water he would take in
and the the drugs cuz he would drink water but he just would not allow food
to be put his mouth
and I got home last night after the TV show at about 8:30
and a you know when to
my went to bed early to be with hagen seconds was in the middle of our bed
between us
and it was amazing he had been other than meowing occasionally had been
basically
silent all day on and he likes to per
arm as long as a Swiss Army
and I crawled into bed and here's Hagens between the two of us need couldn't move
and I
and but he just barely moved his paw
0 over the edge of the bed it was like about an inch in talking about 10
minutes to do it so that it was just touching my arm
and I was petting him and he was like trying to pat me which he liked to do
and he started purring and it was amazing and it was just
this was about I don't know midnight last night I mean we're up for about
four hours with pecans just
land there and I was talking with them and telling him that he was going to go
into the light and he
was going to have a wonderful wonderful experience in
someday I'd be there too and we'd hang out together in light
and
so anyhow I didn't think I would fall apart sorry
arm and how we want to
in fact I'd during this just maybe five minutes before turned off the lights all
this
this whole day he had just kept his eyes open like he would not close his eyes
and looking back on it now i've I figured out what was going on because he
can move his body any
I think he knew instinctively that if he closed his eyes he would just ripped off
now be the end of it
and arm so I'd took
I pay grab my phone when he started purring
the last time just about midnight last night
and a just took recorder little three or four minutes
are for second video clip both Higgins
purring and I don't know if you'll be able to hear him over the sound to the
fan in the room cuz the
the the heater was on but um
he was pretty pretty loud for kathy could hardly breathe
and here's Higgins last few moments
I'm
and then we had turned off lights much sleep and
a with both arms on Higgins and we woke up about an hour later
unite wake up throughout the night ok about an hour later I i woke up
actually in and Higgins was moving anymore and so I woke up louisan
and then i send a text message to our kids this was at 1:46 in the morning
and I said you know he's been light now he went peacefully
and Justin are signed one word
rescued him decade ruth a reply said
he had a good life he is very happy cat even if it meant
attacking unwitting visitors the old the young mail carriers house cleaners
family not family
cats dogs and Cohen's our friend salish ali khan
are you know wonderful wonderful people wonderful friends
and they both you know some people just like to talk loud and and they're both
and a loud talkers that use to flip up Higgins so
which is kinda funny so anyhow that was the note that I got back from Justin
so I you know if you'd like to make a donation Higgins memory
Higgins has been up too solemn and he's sorta
for mean we started out rescuing abused kids and 78 they're still doing that
they're
800 897
8358 I guess after we left we continue that tradition rescuing this cat
so hunter school .org
or 800 897
8358 800 897 8358
and some anything that you can give us much appreciated is but really to me to
pave their driveway
it would be a real
amor take a break and blow my nose will be love