Aloa's Jazz

We found Jazz at Lone and Peter of DK Aloa. It was love at first sight and a bit of at impulsive buy. We just had to have her. She reminded us of our first Maine Coon Luna, whom we had just lost and since she shared birthdays with her, we felt it was fate that we had found her ;-)

Luckily the people who had first had her in sight had made other plans and all of a sudden she was available to us. The original plan was that we should have waited until the next litter from Lone and Peter to see if there would be at male for us, and after choosing Jazz this would no longer be possible, since their pedigrees would be too close to each other. Fortunately we didn't mind. Jazz was the one we wanted. ;-) And she has enriched our lives during the almost 2½ years we lived with her. She was a very loving and social cat, Jazz was "mom's cat" and she loved lying around with me on our sofa. She was always around somewhere close to me. Kristian was a acceptable substitute when I was not at home, but not much more. Or so I like to think ;-)

She gave birth to two litters and she has been flawless in her loving upbringing of all of her kittens.

Jazz was torn away from us very suddenly and we miss her indescribably and we are so sad that it had to end like this. We have decided to keep one of her kittens and we will have to see how she develops, but with Jazz as her mom we know she will be a dear and sweet cat.

Below is the description of Jazz's last days:
It started on the morning of Thursday November 29 2007 when I couldn't find her. I called and called and after a while she was suddenly standing right next to me. Right away I could tell she was not well, she seemed very weak and tired. At first I thought it might be mastitis so I tried to get her to nurse one of the kittens, but she pushed the kitten away. Her faintness continued all morning and around noon I called our vet and brought her in as soon as Kristian got home from work. The vet thought it might be mastitis as well, but they wanted to keep her over night in order to keep her hydrated and to get her temperature down.

The next day (Friday) the vet called and they now told us that judging from an x-ray it looked like her liver was enlarged. But in order to know for sure, they would have to take a blood sample, and they wanted to check with me whether this was ok. Of course I told them yes. The blood sample had to be sent to Germany, and they wanted to keep Jazz over the weekend, because her condition had not improved. But because my local clinic had to close for the weekend Jazz would be sent to the nearby Animal Hospital, Dyrehospitalet Hobrovej, to the vet on duty. At approx. 14.15 the vet from the Animal Hospital called and told us Jazz had been brought in and that he had had a closer look at her. He had had new X-rays taken of her and from his X-rays he could see that she had a diaphragmahernie, possibly caused by her recent delivery. This meant that there had been at crack in her midriff so her intestines were pushing up against her lungs which were reduced to 1/3 of their full capacity by now.

Jazz was very ill and she was given liquid intravenously. The vet told us he could try and operate her, but it would be at very complicated operation and he could promise nothing. Thus in concert with the vet's advice we made the difficult decision to put her to rest. We drove out to the hospital to tell her goodbye and to speak with the vet. We are very glad that he diagnosed her correctly and found out what her condition was, so that she did not have to wait over weekend for the results of a blood sample that would turn out to not have anything to do with her illness.

The vet said we were lucky Jazz had been able to nurse and raise her kittens for as long as she had. The problem might as well have occurred two days after the delivery.