Тhis Cat With Dwarfism Will Be Kitten-Sized Forever

“Everything was going well until Boxing Day when he unexpectedly collapsed. I rushed him straight to the out-of-hours emergency vets, where they admitted him for ultrasounds, x-rays, blood tests, and intravenous fluid therapy. Upon running types of blood, his calcium level was 0.52. They actually ran his blood again because they thought it could be wrong, but it came back the same. He was given calcium via IV and spent the next 4 nights in the vets being kept stable. Hypoparathyroidism wasn’t originally tested for as it was so unlikely to be diagnosed in a kitten. We did, however, do this blood test recently and with his other blood tests, it was confirmed he does have hypoparathyroidism, which he will need lifelong calcium and vitamin D for,” Emily recalls the day they found out that Munchie has hypoparathyroidism.

Emily says that Munchie “has quite a cheeky personality” and her reaction when she first saw the tiny cat was “giving him a big cuddle.” She says that she “fell head over heels in love with him.” When she brought him home, he had to meet his new family members, who all seemed to react differently to Munchie, but after some time, everyone started to get along. “So, Munchie gets on with the other animals amazingly. He hit it off with Bella from the start (she’s my dog.) Junior wasn’t a fan of Munchie, to begin with—it took a few weeks for him to stop grumbling at Munchie. Aslan and Munchie hit it off straight away.”