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My Peanut-cat is at the vet

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edited January 2014 in Chit Chat
Waiting to go off to the animal hospital to be shaved, possibly spayed (although we think she's already been done), and have her dental done.

I live in a very small town, the vet has a practice here but she's only here 9am-11am, then she goes to the animal hospital in the next town, which is her main practice, about half an hour away. So she ferries pets from here to the animal hospital if their owners can't take them all the way.

I would have liked to have taken Peanut all the way to the hospital, and waited while she was being done, and brought her home immediately, but I couldn't get time off of work.

I am heartbroken at having to leave her overnight.

I know she's going to be fine, but I don't think I am!
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  • MillyLHMillyLH member
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    Keep strong honey! I hate doing this as well but it really is the best way. Just remember that animals don't have the conception of time that we have, so she won't feel like she is away for that long.

    As for you, I recommend a box of chocolates and a good RomCom!
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    MillyLH said:
    Keep strong honey! I hate doing this as well but it really is the best way. Just remember that animals don't have the conception of time that we have, so she won't feel like she is away for that long.

    As for you, I recommend a box of chocolates and a good RomCom!
    That is the best idea I've heard all day! Definitely going to do that tonight, assuming I don't have to work late again.

    Thanks! This is the first time since we made ourselves her forever family that I'm at home and she's not. She's going to be knocked out for most of the time, and she'll probably sleep the rest of it, so I doubt she's even going to know that she was gone.
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  • pinkcow13pinkcow13 member
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    Awww, well she will be home before you know it! You can spoil her with some treats when she's ready to come back home :) Chocolates and a RomCom is also a fabulous idea!
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  • jdluvr06jdluvr06 member
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    I hate when I have to leave my fur babies overnight. She'll be home before you know it!
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    I agree with @pinkcow- spoil her when she gets home!!!! I have had to leave two of my cats in the hospital for 5 days each. It was all I thought about while they were gone and I had to constantly fight back tears. So, I understand what you are feeling. I spoiled them to death when they got home and made sure they got lots of extra love!

     







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  • KeptInStitchesKeptInStitches member
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    I hated leaving Ellie overnight when she needed her spay! I felt so guilty, even though I knew it was for her own good. I think I got through it with comedies.
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  • vt&dtvt&dt member
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    I had to leave my cat overnight when she had her spay as well, she was just 8 weeks old and fit in the palm of my hand and it was all I thought about.

    But all that sadness went away when I picked her up, the vet brought her out, and she literally jumped (even in her extremely lethargic recovery state) out of the vet's hands to me and purred so loud.

    While she was still recovering from the anesthesia, she just slept in my lap whenever I was home for almost two days straight.
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  • smalfrie19smalfrie19 member
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    wait wait wait... they are cutting her open because she MIGHT have to get spayed? Can they not do a u/s first?

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    smalfrie19 said:

    wait wait wait... they are cutting her open because she MIGHT have to get spayed? Can they not do a u/s first?

    No, the vet said they would shave her first and check for scarring or stitches, and only open her up if there were none. It's common practice here to leave a stitch in when spaying cats so other vets can tell that it's been done if for some reason there's no other record.
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    urbaneca said:
    smalfrie19 said:

    wait wait wait... they are cutting her open because she MIGHT have to get spayed? Can they not do a u/s first?

    No, the vet said they would shave her first and check for scarring or stitches, and only open her up if there were none. It's common practice here to leave a stitch in when spaying cats so other vets can tell that it's been done if for some reason there's no other record.

    oh thank goodness!!
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  • CokezerofreakCokezerofreak member
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    How did Peanut do?  Is she on her way home?  I hated leaving my dog any time I do.  She's such a baby that I take her to my parents house for babysitting while I am at work.  I kinda made a monster, she never wants to be alone at home, though. 
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    We get to fetch her in a little over two hours. No call from the vet, so I'm taking that as everything went well.

    FMIL was seriously considering driving to the animal hospital last night after work to pick her up, but the weather was really bad, it was absolutely bucketing down (at one stage I couldn't see from the office door to the door of the house which is maybe 6 meters away) and it's dirt roads most of the way. So we decided it was more important that everyone arrive safely than that we get Peanut back immediately.
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    UPDATE: I have my Peanut!

    She's totally fine, happy to be home. She HAD been fixed already, so they didn't have to open her up. The total cost was much less than predicted because she didn't need the spay, and didn't have to have any teeth pulled, so I was able to buy her a bigger carrier for future trips to the vet.

    Her current carrier was all I could afford when I got her, when she was 1/4 of the size she is now, and it's now just a little too small for her. She's comfortable, but she can't move around without pulling the carrier over.

    Vet didn't have any treats in stock, and FI isn't going to have time after work to stop by the store for her, so I'll make some mashed potato a little bit later and she can have some of that - it's her favourite. We suspect she lived off KFC bread, chips, and mash while she was on the streets. She doesn't eat ANY meat (not cooked or raw, no chicken, no fish, no red meat) except tuna - provided it's "hoomin toona" and not tuna for cats.
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  • KeptInStitchesKeptInStitches member
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    Oh good! I'm glad she's well and didnt have to go through any really major surgery / procedures.
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    Yay to Peanut the KFC cat!
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  • jdluvr06jdluvr06 member
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    I'm glad she is home and doing good. Did you guys rescue her off the streets?
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    jdluvr06 said:
    I'm glad she is home and doing good. Did you guys rescue her off the streets?
    Yes we did. I found her stuck on a window ledge in the office park at my last job, the last day before a long weekend. She was severely dehydrated and malnourished, covered in her own poop, completely terrified, and was 1/4 of her adult size - we were originally told that she was an un-neutered male under a year, although that "diagnosis" was not made by a vet. 3 months later, after trying to find her family (she had a collar when we found her, but no chip), and then trying to find a foster home for her because we weren't strictly speaking allowed to have 2 cats in our apartment, we decided to make ourselves her forever family. We took her off to the vet for shots, and were told that actually she was a 4+ year old female - so it's really good that we took to calling her Peanut, instead of Sheldon (which was the other option).
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  • jdluvr06jdluvr06 member
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    Poor baby. I'm glad that you found her. My Callie cat used to be a street kitty. I found her on my way home one night. It was cold and I noticed she was declawed. So I brought her in and set about finding her owners the next day. One of my neighbors told me she had belonged to this couple who had moved and they left her there. The plan was to find her a new home but it's been two years so she is now mine. Lol.
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  • KytchynWitcheKytchynWitche member
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    I'm not much of a people person, and I really wasn't much of an animal person either until I moved in with FI and his cat, but I can't stand to see animals suffering.

    There were a couple of strays on the farm that we took care of for 10 days in December, and I had a really tough time not "rescuing" them all, but I know that they are all completely wild and solitary (they never came around together) and introducing them into a home with 5 other animals wouldn't be good for them or for our animals. They weren't really suffering though - there's plenty of food for them on the farm, I just think that all cats deserve loving homes.

    Last weekend FI introduced me to "Too Cute" and I spent two hours going "can we have them?" at every segment.
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  • MillyLHMillyLH member
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    pinkcow13 said:
     Chocolates and a RomCom is also a fabulous idea!
    Exactly!
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