Rafiki

I rescued Rafiki from death row 1 week before Christmas 2017. He was picked up by the Ranger & taken to a Vet clinic to be euthanised as he was not microchipped. I took him along with a mother cat & her 5 kittens with the plan of finding them all their forever happy homes. Rafiki was about 10 weeks old & a very different little kitten, very withdrawn & frightened. He never took any interest in the other kittens & his food had to be under his nose before he recognised it. I thought he maybe had brain damage, after a couple of weeks he did start slowly to interact with the other kittens & after the kittens were rehomed he became very dependant on the mother cat who took him on as replacement for her own kittens, all happy. It was soon established that Rafiki couldn’t be rehomed without mother cat who we now called Akemi. Resigned to this fact we now had 2 extra to add to our clan.

Soon after Rafiki developed a sore back leg which I put down to a bit of robust climbing but the next day he became paralysed in both of his back legs. He’s rushed trip to our vet ended tragically with him being euthanised at only 16 weeks of age.

"Meet you at the Rainbow Bridge Rafiki my special little boy."