so she could get into the, um,

litterbox and it looks like she

scratched it up a bit, so she may have peed here.

um. And then she went (laughs) and hid

hid under the corner over there (light laugh)

She's been there. All this morning.

But what Jun found when he got up, which I didn't see,

Um, (laughs) ...was this. So, it looks like she had to poo, last night, and um.

Because we didn't have any litter, she came over and dug up one of Jun's potted plants,

and went...in the pot here.

Um. I'm actually- I'm actually glad. (laughs)

Um, I'll clean it up later. It's not- it didn't damage the tree or anything. It's no- no big deal.

Um, but. I'm glad that she was able to have a bowel movement, because it means she's

at least got a healthy digestive system.

We fed her quite a bit yesterday and I was quite worried that...

if she had any problems, especially with blockages, that could've, um.

That could've caused her some problems, but. She seems to be doing okay, so.

[Poki hisses and Rachel laughs.]

(sweetly) ♫ We're going to the vet ♫ [Poki growls]

Aw, poor kitty...

All right, I'm gonna get her out now so we can...head over to the vet.

[car rumbling]

We're on the way to vet.

Kitty ♫ Meow ♫

Oh... do we have any tissues?

Yiss...

(soothingly) Hi- [Poki gives a displeased meow] Yeah,

[Poki meows again in protest] Yeah,,

Yeah, it's okay,

All right,

We'll be there soon ♫

Okay, so we just dropped kitty off with out vet,

I reeally, really like our vet, he's a really nice guy.

He's the one who figured out what disease

Hina had, even though he said he'd Never seen that in a cat before.

Um, but he still managed to figure it out even before we got the test results back.

Um, he's - Jun: He was also our private consultant Rachel: Yeah, he's (laughing) been our

Haku is such a troublemaker.

Like he , oh he gets into so much trouble.

We've had to call the vet a few times before to be like,

"Haku ate this, what should we do???" and

he always gives us lots of advice on the phone and tells us to do...

Jun: (speaking as doctor) What did he exactly eat, what did he chew, what was the material of the toy, (can you tell me?) how big it was,

and then you should do this, and that, and wait for this month and see what comes out when... Yeah. He's great. Rachel: Yeah.

The vet said he's going to examine her today, and like, try to figure out what all is, um.

going on with her, um.

Obviously he could see the tail...needs to be amputated,

Um. I told him that her leg, I think, her rear left leg is broken too.

so he's gonna check all of that. um.

He didn't want to move her too much while we were there, so we...

He didn't check to see if it was a boy or a girl right now, but he'll let us know, later.

We'll check up on her tomorrow, and they said that they can

keep her until we get back from America, if we need to.

Um, he said that he's...never had to keep a cat that long before (laughs)

We're a first, for him, for a lot of things.

He seemed quite surprised that we also brought in this cat that we found on the expressway in this condition.

But, um. He was happy that we brought her in though.

Um. But yeah, he said they can keep her until we get back from America if we need to and they'll give us a discount too because it's gonna be such a long stay

Anyway, we'll know more tomorrow so I'll update you guys then.

So we're on our way to the vet to check up on the kitty

Um this is Jun's family vet so it's kind of far away from us but we really like this vet and we really trust him, so

I wanted to go to him above anyone else

Um, so I'll give you an update in a minute!

So the vet let us take videos of everything so we could show you guys

First of all, he told us that the kitty is actually a boy

And he's only about six to seven months old, so he's still really young

Um... poor thing

Here are his x-rays

He....the vet said the whole front of his body is perfectly fine

Um, obviously his tail is broken and his rear left leg is broken - like I thought

It's...it's pretty broken in two different spots here

He also did a blood test and he said those results were pretty normal as well

And he also did the FIV test and our kitty was negative so he's perfectly fine there

He does have a stomach worm

He said that worm can be really difficult to remove with traditional medicine that you eat

so he said he's going to give the cat a shot which should get rid of it in one go

Um, but he'll have to check again.... in a couple weeks to make sure that there are no more eggs in kitty's poop

To make sure that the worm is completely gone

But that shouldn't be a big problem.

As for the broken leg, the vet thinks that because kitty is still so young, he should actually be able to heal that pretty well himself

And he showed us x-rays of some other kitty cats that had fractures that actually healed over themselves pretty well

So he thinks surgery is unnecessary for the leg, which would, um, save us a lot of money

and it might be less stressful for the kitty as well

But he's gonna keep an eye on it and if it doesn't look like it's healing then we may need to do surgery later

But for now, we'll just try to let the leg heal naturally

But the tail of course does still need to be amputated

We also got to see kitty for a little bit

He wasn't very happy (chuckles). Poor thing

We also decided on a name, I think

If it was a girl, I wanted to call it Kiki, but, because it's a boy, and getting another look at him, we decided to go with Poki, I think. Poki

We picked Kanji. The first Kanji is the Kanji used in aruku for "walk," so the first Kanji is Po - walk.

And then ki. The Kanji there means "live."

So it's kind of like he's our little wandering survivor kitty

I think it suits him well, and he looks like a Poki to me.

But, yeah, maybe I'm not good at naming cats. I don't know.

That's what I came up with

And we also got estimates for all of the costs for everything, so I'll go ahead and show you guys that now

Alright so, our vet is really amazing.

Um these are all of the prices for everything our kitty has to get done - which is really not as expensive as I was expecting

So, oh jeez (chuckles) Jun, I'm gonna need your help for translating these

The most expensive part is actually the pet hotel, because

with our Odigo trips and with, um, traveling to America

we are not gonna be home for the next 2 months, actually

So we have to find.... Someone else has to take care of the kitty for 2 months, and since the kitty has bones that need to heal

and treatments and, like, the doc...um, the vet has to keep an eye on his poop to make sure that he gets rid of all of the... um...

the worms and stuff. We feel much more comfortable leaving it with the vet

while we're gone. And, um, we've done that before with Hina and um

(Jun speaks in background)

Rachel: (Chuckles) The vet is actually cheaper than a pet hotel

and, um, like, there's no where else we could take him right now

and so I would rather just do it this way

And so, typically, it's $2,000 Yen a day

which is about $20 a day. Which is a lot cheaper than a pet hotel

And not super bad

But, um, he gave us a pretty big discount

So you can see the normal total would have been this for six months - $1, 200 basically

But our total that we have to pay is only one thousand one hundred and.... about $40

And that's everything. So the vet gave us a really big discount on everything

Um, which was super nice of him

And it's gonna help out a lot

The only other thing is if his leg isn't healing well, the vet's going to be checking on that while we're gone

And, um, if it looks like it's not going to heal well, then the vet may decide that it's better to do surgery later on

And obviously that would cost a little bit more

But, for now, he's going to try to let the kitty's leg heal on its own cause he thinks that'll be effective enough

This is a lot cheaper than I was expecting anyway

So I think it'll be really easy to get a little bit of help with this

Doing a small fundraiser

So we don't... we don't need to raise a lot. And even if we don't make all of this, I'm pretty sure we can manage the rest of it on our own

Because it's not as bad as I was expecting

I'm just glad the kitty is doing well

It seems like he's not really used to humans right now (chuckles)

He's really scared. I feel bad for him, but hopefully, he'll um

He'll get better with that now that he's getting lots of food and lots of love and care

The vet's going to wash him for us and, um

I think... I think he'll turn out okay

And, um. Yeah, there won't be any problems keeping him with Haku

I'm basically planning on keeping him

I know Jun wants another cat

He wants to... Jun really wanted to pick out his own cat too

(Jun in background) After I lost Hina

Rachel: And I still want to let him pick out a cat

Rachel: So it'd be kind of difficult for us to have 3 cats Jun in background: It's okay

Rachel: But I think we could do that (chuckles)

Jun: It's okay (chuckles)

But anyway, I don't have any plans of giving him up anytime soon

But, um

One of the biggest things to consider, I think, is after he's all healed up

How he's able to handle Haku

Because Haku's a bully

Haku's kind of a big bully. He's a really big kitty, and he's really powerful and has a lot of strength

And since he's still kind of young himself, he likes playing. But he plays a little too rough for a lot of cats

Like, we couldn't keep him together with Hina either

Like when we had both of them, we had to keep them separated at all times

Especially because Hina was sick

He seems like he could look out for himself after all he's been through

And how well he's doing now, but, we'll have to see how he gets along with Haku too

Because it wouldn't be fair

if Haku is just constantly bullying him, and like, picking on him

And if he can't watch out for himself. So we'll see how they get along together once we come back from our trips

And, um, we'll update you guys again then!

Hopefully he'll look a lot better then. He'll be all clean and healed up

Thank you guys for being so supportive and

If you wanna donate just like a dollar or something I... we don't... we don't need much for this because it was a lot cheaper than I was expecting

I'll put, um, I'm gonna put together a fundraiser before I upload this video

I'll put it down in the description box but...

If you wanna donate something, we don't need much

If not, it's okay because whatever....whatever else we need, I think we can... we can manage ourselves

So thank you so much, everyone. Um, I'll see you guys next time. Bye!

We came to visit Haku while we were in the area

Haku!

He doesn't care about us, he just wants the other kitties

(Chuckling) He's so fluffy

(Japanese in background)

(Chuckles)

(Cat meows) (Chuckling)

(Japanese in background) Jun: Oho! Hah

(Cat thumps against window)

(Chuckling)

(Laughs) The kitty

(Cat thumps against window)

(Thump)

(Chuckles)

(Jun says something in Japanese)

(Laughs)

(More Japanese)

(Chuckles)

I can hear her alien voice (chuckles)

(Chuckling)

(A woman speaks Japanese)

(All laugh)

(Woman speaking Japanese) (Rachel laughs)

(Jun growls)

(Jun speaks Japanese)