Along With The Smell Of Rotting Flesh, He Was Clearly In Pain With It Stuck Around His Neck!

Ajays | May 12, 2019 | Rescues

Animal control had tried to catch him.

Animal Control had tried to catch him without success as he was absolutely terrified of humans, so the roll had stayed stuck around his neck day after day, week after week.

*Photo Courtesy of Facebook/Saving Sweet Valentine*

They then took the cat to Rancho Cucamonga Animal Shelter to be treated for his injury. “Little did we all know after we sedated him just how bad his condition was till we cut the tape roll off his neck,” Saxelby recalled.

Seeing the cat’s severely infected neck, Saxelby cried. She couldn’t imagine the pain he had been through. On top of that, the injured cat was emaciated and dehydrated, as he couldn’t drink or eat well due to the tape roll firmly stuck around his neck.

Fortunately, the vets were able to treat the wound around his neck and above his ears, after which, he was on the road to recovery. In honor of the day he was saved, the ginger cat was named Valentine.

A few days following his rescue, Valentine began to regain his health. Valentine was initially grumpy and defensive, but slowly, he began to be more trusting toward humans once he was placed in a foster home.

“The foster mama was able to pet his head and let’s just say it made us ohhh so happy!!” Saxelby wrote on Facebook page Saving Sweet Valentine. With a lot of TLC, Valentine adjusted fairly quickly. He loves sleeping in his favorite spot—the sink!

Valentine has gone through much misery, and Saxelby hoped he could find a loving home he truly deserves.

Finally, on May 18, 2017, Saxelby announced in a Facebook post, “Valentine has found his forever loving home and best of all it is with his foster mama April Glatzel who loves him…”