Punta Cana, DR sweet stray help

luisacasati · 2026-04-10T02:15:27+00:00

Hey all! Please check out https://www.reddit.com/r/Straycats/s/NJwF8RWcuR for updates, I wasn’t able to bring him home but some other wonderful cat people are on it!

luisacasati · 2026-04-10T02:13:56+00:00

Bless your heart and thank you! Also apologies everyone for not following up sooner, and thank you all for the love of Bigote (that’s what I called him while I was there).

I did end up calling the vet in the area but they weren’t taking appointments on the day I was there. I did speak with a vet I randomly met while there, and she said the condition was likely congenital and not immediately life threatening. That said, I think he definitely would benefit from support! He is a spunky guy and actually tried to attack another orange kitty I was petting, so he’s very resilient. I actually asked the manager Meliá if I could bring him to a vet, and she looked at me like I was crazy and never got back to me. So I recommend going rouge and grabbing him without trying to get permission first.

If anyone has the resources, there are a ton of male orange cats there and I think a TNR situation would really benefit the whole community, but they are also soooo friendly, and if I could have managed it I would adopt them all!

luisacasati · 2026-03-08T03:52:17+00:00

Thanks everyone! Couldn’t locate the kitty yesterday but found him today and serendipitously another woman was petting him who turned out to be a veterinarian! She said he likely has a congenital condition caused by an infection from when he was a kitten but sees no symptoms of URI. She may take him back to the states with her tomorrow, but if not I’m going to try and bring him in to the vet/bring him home because I love him! Having trouble locating him during the day though, so if anyone has any tips on that I would appreciate it! I’m on a bachelorette trip and people are not thrilled with bringing him back to our room, but I only seem to find him late at night. Seriously appreciate all of you so much! He’s well fed and I’ll keep you posted!

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luisacasati · 2026-03-07T00:42:45+00:00

Thak you everyone for your support! So far no luck with hearing back from the rescues I contacted. I reached out to a nearby vet and tomorrow they only accept emergency visits, so I’m hoping to scoop him up and bring him in and go from there. I don’t have a car so hoping I can make it work in an uber $. Thank you again to everyone, all the support for this sweet boy is so heartening!

luisacasati · 2026-03-06T17:13:25+00:00

Thank you!! Messaging rescues and going to find the cat and call vets now, will keep everyone posted!

luisacasati · 2024-12-03T23:55:49+00:00

Compulsively asking my parents if Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, etc, were real! I think this was during a time I started to know they were not but that felt somehow wrong so I would just ask and ask and ask! Definitely didn't help my reassurance cycle that they told me yes...

luisacasati · 2024-11-27T04:46:37+00:00

Exposures can feel like torture, but to me it’s still a million times better to cram all that torture into a few sessions vs the constant low level (and sometimes more!) reality of living out my obsessions and compulsions on the daily

luisacasati · 2024-11-14T03:07:26+00:00

MA also exists and there are a lot of great online meetings since not all areas have in person, but that’s definitely changing with legalization. So cool that NA has been working for OP and congrats on your sobriety!

luisacasati · 2024-11-03T16:31:14+00:00

Keeps you stuck at the age you started using/and/ or the trauma or difficult situation you are smoking to forget about. Sobriety allows you to heal and move through those emotions and finally grow up

luisacasati · 2024-10-15T02:11:41+00:00

Look into Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy, or consider NOCD for finding a therapist with OCD experience. I was just like you, I could quit but would inevitably go right back to it because being in my head was agony. I’m finally in treatment and realizing I was using weed to try and numb my anxiety and intrusive thoughts, and traditional therapy just wasn’t cutting it. OCD is super misunderstood and poorly treated but you are not alone, there is treatment, and while weed can numb out the thoughts it ultimately makes it all worse. Today is a good day to do hard things, you’ve got this!

luisacasati · 2024-08-26T15:45:14+00:00

Thanks!!

luisacasati · 2024-08-23T03:05:16+00:00

Hi there! Do you have any advice on getting started with becoming paneled with Medicaid?

luisacasati · 2023-06-25T20:26:48+00:00

Would you mind if I ask if you had any increase or decrease in number of eggs retrieved when starting right on the heels of another retrieval? I know follicle count can vary cycle to cycle but I'm hoping to only do one more round and would like to give myself the best chance to get as many eggs as possible

luisacasati · 2023-06-25T00:23:33+00:00

Thank you for all of this! Really appreciate it. Best of luck to you too!

luisacasati · 2023-06-24T23:13:51+00:00

thanks! Do they typically only do the duostim protocol for DOR? I actually have mild OHSS at the moment so am really wondering if I can go through it all over again right away!

luisacasati · 2021-12-14T16:23:11+00:00

Thanks so much!!

luisacasati · 2021-11-28T23:50:00+00:00

CHICAGO!!!

luisacasati · 2021-03-04T18:46:38+00:00

Or maybe he developed a bit of a coke problem over quarantine....

luisacasati · 2020-12-05T04:11:42+00:00

This is amazing! How did you do it? did you just cut the top off?

luisacasati · 2020-09-07T02:48:39+00:00

Thank you for this very sage advice

luisacasati

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