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Merci the Miracle Cat Beat the Odds, Needs a Home

This beautiful two-year-old cat arrived at the shelter very sick after having kittens, but she's fine now after tender care and surgery repaired her ruptured uterus.

Merci was free-roaming and homeless when she arrived at in Houghton, and she was one limp, lethargic, very sick cat.

She had just given birth to kittens, and it did not go well. Rushed to Animal Emergency Services in Kirkland, she was discovered to have a ruptured uterus, a diaphragmatic hernia, and essentially no red blood cells.

The odds were not in her favor, but she pulled through thanks to the vets, who were able to operate and save her life. Still, she was weak and listless. Amazingly, she rallied and recovered to become a healthy, active, feisty, snuggly cat with a big appetite.

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The staff and volunteers at MEOW Cat call her a miracle, and she’s a beautiful one at that, just two years old, a Himalayan mix/ragdoll breed.

She will most likely do well around other cats and children over the age of six. It is not known how she’d do around dogs.

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But she needs a loving place to call home. If you can provide that for Merci or would like to check her out, see www.meowcatrescue.org or call 425-822-6369.


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