The worst selection an animal lover can face is having to surrender their pets.
For Pietermaritzburg cat rescuer Suzanne Kunz, a sudden and devastating analysis of a continual cat allergy has not solely upended her life, however pressured her to urgently rehome 52 rescue kittens and cats she is caring for in her shelter.
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After greater than seven years of fostering and rescuing cats and kittens, Kunz — founding father of non-profit firm PMB Kitten Fostering & Rescue — was lately recognized with continual allergy to cat dander, which is pores and skin cells shed within the fur of the animal.
After being hospitalised with respiratory difficulties twice previously month, check outcomes confirmed the situation, and because of the acute well being problems brought on by the sudden onslaught of her allergy, she was suggested to keep away from contact with cats.
I used to be experiencing respiratory points across the center of December and I used to be rushed to trauma on two completely different events. After a battery of exams, the specialist knowledgeable me of my excessive excessive IgE allergens to cat dander.
“Devastated does not even to begin to express how I feel. Everything I envisioned for the future has been snatched from me. But this is a choice I have to make if I want to live.”
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While coming to phrases with this life-changing analysis, Kunz has been left with no different selection however to urgently rehome over 30 kittens and 10 mom cats she has in her care.
Unfortunately, as a result of excessive depend, treatment is just not doable and the discount of oxygen that I’m able to course of is deteriorating with the publicity to the dander. The medical recommendation from specialists is to lower my publicity to cat dander, or face residing on oxygen and steroids and recurrent infections, therefore the necessity to rehome the rescue kittens and ex-moms on my private premises as shortly as doable.
According to the National Institutes of Health, when a person with an allergy comes into contact with cat dander, their immune system can react by producing antibodies and histamines — which may trigger signs that embody sneezing, itching, watery eyes and issue respiratory.
They ought to keep away from being involved with cats.
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Kunz fashioned the PMB Kitten Fostering & Rescue organisation to assist home stray cats and kittens seven years in the past.
A couple of folks have been speaking about there being no protected place for stray pregnant mothers or small new child kittens to be cared for round Pietermaritzburg. It was with that purpose that PMB Kitten Fostering & Rescue was fashioned.
At current, PMB Kitten Fostering & Rescue has 30 kittens, 10 mom cats and 12 older kittens who urgently want properties.
Heartbroken at having to cease fostering and rehome these animals, Kunz is pleading with group members who’re capable of help with both adopting or fostering her cats and kittens.
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Kunz appealed to anybody who’s prepared to help to WhatsApp her on 082 478 5860.
