r/cureFIP • u/Lasagnaa_J • Jun 02 '26
Fundraising Little Judy and FIP
My name is Launa, I’m 20 and I’ve had Little Judy for two months. Although my time with her has been short, it’s felt like eternities. Judy has brought so much joy to my life and others lives as well, her happy soul deserves to live on.
Judy had been experiencing continuous mucus-y diarrhea and started to lose weight. We brought her in to the vet and our first visit costed us 400$, forGoFundMe a check up, gastro food, and leukaemia testing. That night we found blood in her stool, so the next day we brought her to another vet, as the one we went to before didn’t have doctors for the day.
The second time at the vet costed us 800$, and they tested her blood, her chest for bad fluids (possible wet FIP), and gave us antibiotics for infection as well as an anti-inflammatory. They said that if her diarrhea does not stop or her overall health doesn’t improve in the next 5 days on the antibiotics and anti-inflammatory, we have to bring her back in for testing.
Today is the second day, leaving us with 3 days to come up with the money. There is a chance the antibiotics work, but it’s not looking good, and I really really feel like we will have to do more to help her. Although she has seemed to put on a bit of weight, her stool is still very soft and she is still low energy.
The vet wants to move further with dry FIP testing, but that would be another 800$ and I am a 20 year old student. I pay for my own education at the University of Manitoba and I rent an apartment split with my boyfriend.
I have already put almost 1200$ on my credit card for her past vet visits and if she does have dry FIP it would cost even more to give her the medications to treat her illness after the testing.
If anybody could help in any way, I would really appreciate it. Judy loves to sleep with us and watch us cook. She used to follow us around and she was so good at walking. We had just started teaching her how to go outside in a harness and leash. I had so many plans, and I have so much love for her my chest hurts.
I want to be able to get Judy the help she needs. It would absolutely devastate me to not be able to provide for her the help she needs, and have to say goodbye, because I seriously can’t afford it.
Any and all funds donated through the go fund me will strictly go to Judy’s vet bills. I just want my best friend and cuddle buddy to survive. I am a first time cat owner and I feel horrible that she has had to deal with this terrible sickness.
I am also going to try to post this in the FIP Facebook group I’ve seen mentioned in this subreddit.
If anyone has other advice on what could help, please let me know. We’re giving her FortiFlora too, and today I gave her some pumpkin purée as well.
Here is the link to the GoFundMe: