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**Bill Graham** · August 15th 13, 04:29 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav

wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:46:10 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

I think removing his thyroid is a death sentence if you are not
prepared to give him thyroid supplements the rest of his life.

No. I thought that too, bfore we had Junie's thyroid removed. But
with cats, they don't really need their thyroid glands. My wife has
no thyroid, and she has to take medicine for the rest of her life,
or sleep 20 hours a day. Cats sleep 20 hours a day anyway, and get
along fine without any thyroid glands.

Well, there's substantially more consequences in humans than just
sleeping a lot, but I yield to your knowledge about cats.

I'm not a vet, but our Junie had hers removed about four years ago, and all
it did was slow her down a bit. (she was kind of hyper before we had it
removed.) All I know about cats is what the vet told me. We are lucky here
in Salem., We have a roving vet who drives a van and travels around from
patient to patient. She specializes in cats. The only problem is, she has to
phone before she comes onto our block, or the cats will hear her van and
split before she gets here....:^)