09/06/2026
🐾💔 Sad update for Dumpling the Dumpster Kitty
As many of you have been following both Leominster Animal Hospital and Fitchburg Friends of Felines posts, Dumpling has had an incredibly challenging road.
She was found in a dumpster by ACO on June 11th just hours to a day old, and brought to Leominster Animal Hospital for care.
And they certainly embraced care to the 100th degree.
They did all they could for this malnourished kitten, in providing the best chance of survival.
At 7 weeks old she started displaying focal seizures at which time medication was started. Soon the seizures became worse and more frequent.
They knew they needed more help than they could provide as a P*P, and called Fitchburg friends for assistance, which we were happy to help.
ER visits, specialty neurology to pursue imaging, labwork, traveling to specialty pharmacies to get compounded medications, her foster mom and team did everything they could to keep her going, happy, and safe, while always keeping her quality of life top priority.
Diagnostics quickly added up, spending more than $5,000 trying to find answers and save her.
But we kept hitting dead ends, leaving even specialists scratching their heads.
We came to terms with the fact that we may never know why this was happening. We realized we didn't necessarily need the answers of why, but more importantly needing to know the how to save her. It became more apparent Dumpling was simply a very special girl who had fallen into the right hands.
She had an incredible foster who loved her fiercely and took her everywhere, a dedicated veterinary team who never stopped supporting her, Fitchburg Friends of Felines to support her, and so many followers who had fallen completely in love with her. ❤️
We were still left struggling to control her episodes after another prolonged seizure and clustering event. Her vision became impaired, and she developed GI and urinary complications from which was believed to be secondary side effects. We started acupuncture and laser therapy alongside her many medications, desperately hoping we could suppress and better manage the seizures and give her more good days.
And Dumpling did exactly what Dumpling did best, fight! With all of us by her side.
She ventured out, making the most of every day, and still got her kitten zoomies after a full belly. She loved her belly rubs, her big brother Siamese that took her under his wing almost immediately, her foster momma cuddles, riding shotgun everywhere, to parks, the beach, a brewery, farms, even went to a wedding.
She experienced more and felt more love in a few months than most feel their whole lives. She even rode on a donkey!
And then there was her yoga. 🥹💗
Even while sleeping, Dumpling would somehow manage to show us her yoga moves, twisting her tiny body into positions that would make a contortionist jealous. It was one more quirky, precious thing that made her Dumpling.
Though a big heart, and big personality, her little body was losing the battle.
Her seizures were becoming more uncontrollable even with more medications and higher dosing. Vision more affected, but could still sniff out an open churu treat! She required regular enemas in addition to her supplements and needed extra support to help her use the litter box.
Despite everything the care team tried, she continued to have breakthrough seizures, putting her at risk for more internal damage and complications.
Wednesday, September 2nd, she was helped to cross the rainbow bridge, surrounded by love. 🌈
Her foster made the selfless, extremely painful decision along side the team at Leominster Animal Hospital to ease her of any future suffering, during yet another heartbreaking cluster seizure event.
She captured the hearts of so many people, and left paw prints on hearts she will never even know she touched. 🐾❤️
Rest peacefully, Dumpling the Dumpster Kitty. 🐾🌈💔 And may the sun forever warm your fur.
If you are able to help us with the neurology bills or the ER visits, we would be very appreciative.
🙏 Please consider donating to Dumpling's medical fund:
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=F8QDDCCVSAURN
This link is specifically for her care.
The team at Leominster Animal Hospital also recognizes the cost we endured, and has been very gracious to entertain the idea of Dumpling merch to help support funds, including stickers and maybe tshirts available in memory of Dumpling the Dumpster Kitty, of which we are very appreciative. We will share once advised of this plan.
Thank you for the continued support of Dumpling, and all of our complex medical kitties. We appreciate your compassion and support.
