In April 2019, Ten Lives responded to a request to help an urgent cat in the community. We learned that he had lived outside for as long as community members could remember, and had been suffering from injuries for many months. Thanks to our Community Cats team, we were able to humanely trap him, along with a number of other cats in need of care, and get him the urgent veterinary services he needed. His foster family named him Lazarus.
Lazarus, or Lazzy, spent a long time trying to survive outside and his condition reflected that. Lazzy had multiple infected wounds, broken teeth, cystitis, hematuria, and a large polyp in his ear. His injuries required extensive veterinary care and frequent follow up visits.