mayushi:

please please read if your country’s currency is dollar/euro

so here i am, doing this again. the one with the pink collar in the picture’s above is eduardo. he and his sister catarina are inseparable. they’re both 5 months old.

some of you might remember that i asked for donations to help with my sick cat back in march, who sadly passed away. here’s the post i made and here’s another post i wrote detailing where all the money went. you can read the first one to get an idea of mine and my family’s financial situation.

in august, someone threw two baby kittens at my doorstep. they were small enough to fit in my hand. i planned on giving them away to someone who could afford having two kittens, both financially and psychologically, but couldn’t find owners. the situation with stray cats in brazil is harsh. there’s one in every street, and most shelters can barely fit any more in. i had no option but to keep them in. they were too small to be in the streets.

after a lot of talking with my family, we decided to keep them. they seemed healthy and since i wouldn’t have to pay for my monthly university fee soon because i’m graduating, i’d soon be able to afford them myself. everything was going good, until eduardo, one of the kittens, got diagnosed with FIP.

if you’re not familiar with FIP, it’s known as a death sentence for cats. we don’t know how eduardo got it, since i don’t allow both of them to go outside, and the diagnosis is made by excluding other options such as leukemia, etc. however, a experimental treatment has been discovered for FIP, but it’s currently not available in brazil and its prices are extremely expensive.

my monthly sallary barely exceeds 160 usd. in brazil’s real currency, that’s enough for me to survive with my mom’s support. however, since i still have to pay for my last month in university, my current balance is only 67 USD.

eduardo’s treatment costs 198 USD, and that’s only for the first 15 days. i won’t ask for more than this for now, since i don’t know how he’ll react to the treatment. there’s a 80%~90% success rate, but since this is donation money, i can’t be sure enough to ask for more. if i manage to get the first part of this treatment and he reacts well to it, i’ll come back to ask for more but for now, this is all i need.

i live in brazil, and the reason why i mentioned dollar/euro at the beginning of this post was because when you convert these currencies to brazilian reais, it’s a lot of money in our currency. 10 USD equals to R$53,20. i’m asking for help from my brazilian friends too, but i know every working class ppl in my country are currently struggling financially, so i can’t hope for much.

so please, please: if you can donate any amount in usd/euro, please please do it. i’ll be posting every expense he has on a subpage in my tumblr.

here’s my mom’s paypal: rosilda09@hotmail.com

it’s different from the previous one i used because paypal set up “limitations” on that account and i’m afraid of the money getting stuck in there.

eduardo also has an instagram (@duducontraapif) where i post in portuguese, but i’ll gladly translate anything from there if anyone’s interested.

thank you so much for reading, helping and/or reblogging.