7 months ago my son found an abandoned tiny kitten near his house. He asked me to take care of the kitty instead giving the kitty a death sentence at the local animal shelter. I've been through the bottle feeding routine before and in several weeks the little cat was playing and following me around like I was her mother. The kitten was undernourished, skinny and so ugly that she was actualy beautiful, solid black with a round white mark on her throat where where a Pearl would hang on a necklace. I named her "pearl". She's turned out to be a special kitten, my little shadow for the past several months.
10 days ago I took her to a local vet for routine spaying and all went normally for a couple of days. She was ambulatory, able to get to the box, water and food.
3-4 days post op I noticed a small lump at the surgical site, I called the vet and was told not to worry, "it's normal". In a few more days, she developed swelling in her left lower abdominal area that extends into her groin and has problems walking. Called the vet again and was told to start antibiotics and see her the next day. By this time, she stopped eating and drinking.
The following day I could tell that the vet was concerned since the kitty was sick and I was asking a lot of heavy questions. We've continued the antibiotics subcutaneous fluids at home and I bring Pearl to the office every morning. She has a fever, isn't getting better and the vet doesn't seem to know what to do.
I've got a 30 year history of practicing human medicine and if this happened to a person, my first thought would be an abdominal abscess from the surgery. Abscesses dont usually heal without being surgically drained,
It seems that the vet is going to just let Pearl die and not do anything invasive for the abscess. Maybe I'm wrong and there is no abscess. Complicated huh?
I think it will be hard to find a vet that will go behind another vet and fix a botched surgery with complications.
Any advice, experience, comments would be appreciated. I am trying to keep Pearl alive. It's a pity for something like this to happen from a common simple surgical procedure.
10 days ago I took her to a local vet for routine spaying and all went normally for a couple of days. She was ambulatory, able to get to the box, water and food.
3-4 days post op I noticed a small lump at the surgical site, I called the vet and was told not to worry, "it's normal". In a few more days, she developed swelling in her left lower abdominal area that extends into her groin and has problems walking. Called the vet again and was told to start antibiotics and see her the next day. By this time, she stopped eating and drinking.
The following day I could tell that the vet was concerned since the kitty was sick and I was asking a lot of heavy questions. We've continued the antibiotics subcutaneous fluids at home and I bring Pearl to the office every morning. She has a fever, isn't getting better and the vet doesn't seem to know what to do.
I've got a 30 year history of practicing human medicine and if this happened to a person, my first thought would be an abdominal abscess from the surgery. Abscesses dont usually heal without being surgically drained,
It seems that the vet is going to just let Pearl die and not do anything invasive for the abscess. Maybe I'm wrong and there is no abscess. Complicated huh?
I think it will be hard to find a vet that will go behind another vet and fix a botched surgery with complications.
Any advice, experience, comments would be appreciated. I am trying to keep Pearl alive. It's a pity for something like this to happen from a common simple surgical procedure.