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Kitten unable to Walk

I volunteer at an animal shelter and on July 6th a lady brought a very young kitten to surrender but the shelter was unable to accept the kitten.  I brought the kitten home and was feeding her with a bottle and she seemed to be doing fine.  A couple weeks later the kitten became unable to walk and it's head was flopping from side to side.  We took her to the vet and they ran some tests but everything came back ok and they gave her two prescriptions and she seemed to perk up and started walking again.  Then we noticed her front paw was flopping and appeared to be deformed-not a really big deal.  Then last week she became unable to walk again and we have again taken her back to the vet who basically said they don't know what to do, gave us more medicine (the same thing as before) and more or less said she should be put down.  She eats fine is able to use her litter pan with assistance, purrs and plays with a special toy. I do not want to put her down to make our life easier but I don't want to be selfish either.  She does not appear to be in pain as far as we can tell.
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One more at the Lily's fan club -waiting for news and pics.
Not sure if they are loading easily today but just go to upload photos, look for  the ones you have saved in your pc or pendrive,open and send...
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Thanks for the uplifting support.  I have pictures of Lilly I just don't know how to post them-not very computer savy
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OMG, what a wonderful story.  Lilly is so blessed with good parents!  Plz post a pic.  It's always the underdogs (or cats) that tug at our hearts the most!!   Hope Lilly continues to improve.
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