Patches is a 8-year-old Unknown in Private, WA, who needs $239 for Clavamox and Onsior.

Patches' mother was a stray who found me at a time when I was living alone and really wishing for a cat. She meowed so consistently outside the apartment door, that she convinced me her owner had to be in the apartment building. After an hour went by (everyone could hear her), no one claimed her, so I did. She was very skinny and hungry. Then I found out she was pregnant and Patches was born.

Patches is a very sweet cat, just like his mother. He also likes to cuddle on the bed next to her and will occasionally lick her ears. He has also lived with large dogs before and has picked up a few habits from them. Such as also wagging his tail when he's happy, not just when he's annoyed like most cats.

I've been laid off on March 16. At first, I had a lot of trouble trying to qualify for regular unemployment, which I didn't. Then finally, Pandemic Unemployment came out and that was working until I got sick with COVID myself. Then I didn't qualify again and lost all income.

Patches urinated a significant amount of blood on 7/26/20. I took him to Greenwood Animal Hospital to see Raj Garhwal and he got a urinalysis, ultrasound, and two medications: Clavamox and Onsior. Patches had an emergency UTI and crystals. His urine was too alkaline also, and the vet gave me a bag of cat food (Royal Canin) for urinary health that he should be switched to.

Patches loves to go outside. So I take him for walks occasionally with a cat harness and leash. He also loves to watch people, cars, and animals very intensely out the window. I crack the shades so he can see outside and he perches up on the windowsill, then hunches over to get as good a look as possible with laser intensity, tail wagging.