How It All Began - part three

Left to Right: Olive and Frederika

Frederika and Olive were born in a garbage can--at least, that's where they were rescued from. They seemed fine when we adopted them, and the pet rescue informed us that they'd had all their vaccinations and had been neutered. But Freddie was sick.

She started showing signs that something was wrong after about a month. She scratched her ears a lot and we started noticing that they were more and more dirty. Well, that dirt was a bad case of ear mites...It was pretty sudden, but one day Maureen and I came home from work and Freddie was in bad shape. Her head was tilting to one side and she seemed to have lost her equilibrium. After a while she just started walking in circles and would start bumping into things around the house...

We took her to the vet and were told that she had mites that were starting to get really deep into her ear canal, and that, if left untreated, might kill her. For the next few weeks we gave her antibiotics, cleaned her ears with a solution every day, and watched her carefully. There seemed to be no progress the first few days, but then she started to get better.

Freddie...plotting.