tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post2338818994661841380..comments2023-09-20T04:56:06.488-05:00Comments on Vetmommy -- Taking care of the small creatures in my life: Hardly anyone's posting this weekVetmommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03080433414311070111noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post-52327118723117955722007-12-30T21:13:00.000-06:002007-12-30T21:13:00.000-06:00Flippy, don't forget that post where I talked abou...Flippy, don't forget that post where I talked about the procedure you can do to make the cat go out of heat. I'm sure that's something you guys could do - one of you scruff her, and the other give her the QTip. I'm sure you'd do a better job that that vet; I remember Leigh-Ann's post about him. Even if she does get pregnant, if you spay her in the first week it wouldn't make any difference. Good luck!Vetmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03080433414311070111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post-4847052325631089782007-12-30T18:16:00.000-06:002007-12-30T18:16:00.000-06:00Everyone has the crud around here too. It doesn't...Everyone has the crud around here too. It doesn't help that the weather keeps changing, either!ColeBugsmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272780983176966027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post-9863283031833755222007-12-29T21:23:00.000-06:002007-12-29T21:23:00.000-06:00If you were the vet on duty here, today, now, I'd ...If you were the vet on duty here, today, now, I'd be totally totally grateful.<BR/><BR/>Leigh-Ann is in Canada (actually AT an NHL game right this very moment) and I just discovered our semi-feral (unspayed because kitten heart failure & doggie pancreatitis/herniated disk(?) took financial precedence) kitten having sex with our most manly (but neutered - they're all neutered) cat on the kitchen floor. <BR/><BR/>The vets' office was about to close (of course), but I called to find out what I should do. The vet on duty (the one who can't handle eyeballs) said there was something they could <I>give</I> her, but that it wasn't safe. I didn't want her to be given a shot...I wanted her to stop wanting to have sex, until we can have the surgery done. He could give her a, uh, finger. If I wasn't so worried about doing it properly...and being ripped to shreds and having my many wounds get infected, I'd do it myself. (and seriously, the idea of it? ick)<BR/><BR/>She's basically feral and we have a doggie door, and we don't have a place to quarantine her...because we already have two cats that are quarantined and I can't let those cats into the general cat population because I don't want them to get beaten up.<BR/><BR/>I can't leave Dobby in the general cat population, even if I could handle the annoyingness of her horniness because I'm terrified of her disappearing out the doggie door because we would probably never get her back and/or we would be hosting the neighborhood swingers' party at our house.<BR/><BR/>In what was a miraculous event, I managed to crate her (I haven't been able to pick her up since the first week we captured her on our front poorch), so she's locked up in the laundry room, which I feel really really guilty about...and that isn't going to be a good solution for very long because I'm sure she'd like to occasionally use the litter box between now and morning, when I'm taking her to the vet's office, whether they want her there or not. It really is a life or death situation - if she escapes out the doggie door looking for a hot young dude, I don't think her chances of survival are very good. There is a big busy street a couple hundred feet away, plus I'm sure she'll end up pregnant.<BR/><BR/>I'm not really sure why I'm posting here, except to maybe vent a little until Leigh-Ann comes home from the hockey game.<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry that you got stuck with crappy clients, especially when you weren't feeling well. I hope, at the very least, you're feelng better. Even though you aren't my vet, <I>I,</I> appreciate your mere presence here. :)<BR/><BR/>Happy New Year!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post-82752636447856357512007-12-29T13:09:00.000-06:002007-12-29T13:09:00.000-06:00We are all snuffaluffagi around here. Poor Evie ca...We are all snuffaluffagi around here. Poor Evie can't nap because she can't breathe. Al is so toast...for 4 days now. Graham is coming round. I went in to give him some cough meds in the middle of the night, half asleep but responding to the sound of coughs, had the elixir ready by his mouth and realized it was PAIGE who was the source. Me? I'm a mom so I can't call in sick; I guess I'm not sick then. Cough Cough. Sneeze Sneeze. Blow Blow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11428271200951124255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post-26590487444989751142007-12-29T09:12:00.000-06:002007-12-29T09:12:00.000-06:00P.S. I sure wish it could have been YOU treating o...P.S. I sure wish it could have been YOU treating our dog!peevishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14135920853307511091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10715455.post-80421995994013304602007-12-29T09:11:00.000-06:002007-12-29T09:11:00.000-06:00Just remember, the vets in the Herriot stories dea...Just remember, the vets in the Herriot stories dealt with the same sorts of people you see now. It's funny how people view human doctors as infallible super-beings, but they don't feel the same way about animal Docs.peevishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14135920853307511091noreply@blogger.com