Lomloy needs a home

Mee went to see Lomloy on Friday and again on Monday, and sent me what she filmed.

On Friday Lomloy was still in her cone and her whale-print recovery suit, sitting on Mee’s lap. On Monday both were off. With the cone gone she can wash herself again, and she spent a good part of the visit doing it: rolling on the clinic floor, washing her face, scratching her neck with a back leg. Five and a half weeks ago she could not use those legs at all.

She walks around the room on her own now. She also turns out to love people. In the first clip she weaves between Mee’s ankles until she gets stroked, and in the third she is flat on her back for a belly rub.

Mee’s own report is the second clip. Lomloy has been in the hospital a little over a month. She is a lot better, Mee says, but she still doesn’t walk very well, and it will take a while longer for that to come back.

What she doesn’t have is anywhere to go. Mee has asked, and so far nobody has offered to take her in. You can hear it in every clip: “Is nobody interested in you at all, little one?” Mee would keep her if she could. Her family already looks after nearly a hundred cats, and as she tells Lomloy with one hand on her belly, “If I had a lot of money, I could keep you.” The last clip is from Friday, and in it she asks the question straight out.

So this is the ask.

If you are in Thailand and could give Lomloy a home, or you know someone who could, message Mee on Line, ID Meecatlover (add her), or on Facebook. Thai is easiest for her. Lomloy is in Bangkok. She is young, blue-eyed and friendly, and her walking is still coming back.

If you are anywhere else, two things help. Send this page to anyone you know in Thailand. And every night without a home is another night on the hospital bill, at 280 baht for her bed. How to help explains the ways to send a gift, and all of it goes to Mee for Lomloy’s care.