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Old November 24th 06, 08:42 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Cheryl
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Default HELP!! I had my 4 month old kittens spayed

On Tue 21 Nov 2006 10:25:18p, AmandaWV4 via CatKB.com wrote in
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He
said them being so lethargic was from the fever. I was so
thankful that my vet got them in so fast. I called the shelter
and they were very worried about them. He even apologized for
that "vet" and asked me what the bill was and said he would help
me with the bill. My vet said if they aren't getting any better
in 2 days to call them immediately. They are already feeling
better. I am feeling better that they are better. I hope I
made sense. LOL Thank you everyone!


I'm sorry you had such a hard time with the shelter's vet.
Sometimes there are complications. I wouldn't necessarily put the
responsibility on the vet, but I wouldn't hold myself responsible,
either. Sometimes there are circumstances that arrise, such as a
compromised immune system, or just the cats inability to heal as
quickly as others.

I have a pair of two year olds that came to me at 9 weeks. I
intended to have both of them neutered at about 3 months old, but
my lil girl had a hard time shaking feline herpes, and kept
getting URIs, while her brother shook it sooner, so he was
neutered. My girl went into heat before she was well enough to be
spayed, so she was spayed while in heat, or just after it ended.
Soon after her surgery, she became sick (I only noticed because
she walked funny; she was still very playful, though not as much
as a 5 month old should have been, and couldn't run well, but I'd
always had adult cats, so I didn't pick up on it).

I took her back to our vet and it turned out that she had an
abscess deep inside, where her internal sutures were. She had to
be opened up again, and had a drain installed, and she had to have
it for 2 weeks. She lived in a dog kennel for those two weeks
during my work hours, and when I slept. To keep her safe. She was
very skinny, and I thought for a while I was going to lose her. I
never blamed our vet. It just sometimes happens. I sure do
understand that when you pay an adoption fee for a cat and you
spend so much for vet care soon after, and you feel that the cat
should have been healthy enough to be adopted in the first place.
It's like defective merchandise. Isn't it. There are no
guarentees. These are living beings, and they sometimes come with
illness, and most of the time that is our (humans) doing, because
they have to be placed in conditions (shelters) where illness
breeds. These cats don't go into those shelters in the best of
condition, and they are rarely inoculated, so are at risk. That
doesn't make them any less deserving of a great home. In my
opinion, that makes them more deserving of a great home. I used to
volunteer with a rescue group, and while it never happened to me,
I've seen others that get desensitized to what happens with these
little beings, especially after they have left the system. And for
real, if you can't separate yourself from it, you can only cry a
lot.

I'm happy to read that your cat is recovering.

A couple of pictures of mine while she was so ill after her spay:

With her cone thingie
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shambo...f5.jpg&.src=ph

How skinny she'd gotten
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shambo...82.jpg&.src=ph

Healthy now, almost 2 years later
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shambo...nm=89e7re2.jpg



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Cheryl