On the verge of tears!!

First and foremost, thank you everyone for all your comments and prayers!!!!! DragonLady, AngelzOO, Narciss, LDG, Lorie D, Sassyfras, okeefecl, mycatsluvme, adymarie, valanhb, Yola - never underestimate the power of the internet to touch someone with a few type written words!!!

Kimward34 - your too cute running next door to your neighbour! Thank You!

BuNN - I love your weird and wonderful self! Kitty soldiers?! Too cool!

Hissy - Thanks for your response. I was upset last night at Nakita's physical appearance. But I still had my senses with me, and I really apreciated your experience on the matter.

The vet said she was "fiesty", pacing her cage and meowing when they went to take her temperature this morning. We will be picking her up this evening.

Again, thank you. I needed my spirits lifted last night because I was fearing the unknown! You guys helped me through it. This is the first time I have had a kitten of my own and am in unknown territory.

Thanks for holding my hand!

Good to hear she's feeling better. I bet you shower her with cuddles when you get her home

Just reading this.

So glad everything is fine and that she is back to her normal self.

Sleep peacefully tonight!

Oh!!! You made my day! I am so HAPPY to hear that everything turned out well for you and Nakita! Scarey as he!!, though!!

>^,,^<
Kim

Glad to hear she is doing better!!

What wonderful news! I'm so glad she's going to be just fine.

Fiesty, Hunh? Sounds GREAT!

Yeah! I'm so happy everything turned out OK. Give her an extra little gentle squeeze for me!

We knew you both had it in you! Congrats~

Patty

Yippeee Skippeee! And thanks for taking the information I presented in the right way. Knowledge is power, and not knowing and imagining the worst only makes it even more scary.

Let me now tell you my experience with ketamine, and my stallion.

Trav was one year old when I decided it was time to geld him. The vet came out and gave my horse a shot, Trav was "supposed" to go down right away. He didn't. In the meantime, my vet and his assistant were busy wrapping ropes around his back-end and legs. Trav was still not going down like he should have. I questioned the vet and asked him what he gave him? I was told Ketamine, and then Trav got a second shot of the same drug. The minute the vet stepped back, Trav leaped high in the air, as if he had been shocked! He went up, then crashed down and started convulsing. Foam was pouring out of his mouth, his eyes were rolled back, he was fighting the ropes and the drugs. Thrashing and crashing all over the pasture, no one could get close to him and his flailing hooves. I was in the farthest corner of the paddock, crying and thinking my horse was going to die right in front of me.

The seizures went on and off for about 20 minutes. Finally, he lay still covered in mud and yuck, quivering, his respiration rate was through the roof! The vet stepped over him with a bottle of sterile water, and poured it on his gonads! I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing, and he looked at me and told me he was going to geld my horse! I told him in very un-ladylike terms that if he touched my horse I would geld him instead! I then picked up a pitchfork and ran him and his assistant off my property.

It took two weeks for Trav to allow any human near him. In that two weeks I did a lot of research on ketamine, and found out it has the same hallucinigenic properties as PCP! It took a lot of quiet time with this horse, before he forgave me and started to trust me again. It took even longer for me to forgive myself.

A few months later, I trailered Trav to OSU and had the vets there geld him. I told them under no circumstances was this horse to get ketamine. The gelding went off without a hitch. Trav is a dear sweet horse today. He will be 4 years old this April. No matter what, I will never forget that awful day when I thought I had cost him his life.

I wrote a letter to the vet clinic about the vet and after some correspondence between myself and the owner of the clinic. I got a vet bill forgiven, and the vet in question went into retirement soon afterward.

Oh my goodness, that is just too awful! I would never let anyone do that to Peedoodle, thank you for the warning, if Peedoodle ever needs surgery, I will make sure the vet does not use ketamine.
I have heard of ketamine being used as a fad drug for teenagers and a lot of them have died as a result. Why that drug is out there, beats me!

Wow, Hissy!! I think I would have grabbed that pitchfork along with you! Thanks for sharing. Like I said before, this has opened up my eyes to how one should educate themselves FIRST before any medical treatment is required! But how many people really do that, when one is going for a "standard procedure". The average pet owner wouldn't even know where to start (and some wouldn't even bother to know until it was too late).

When I was up last night... I read about Ketamine. There seems to be a debate on it. From what I read, it all depends on what is used in conjunction with the Ketamine. Many vets state that it is safe when used with "x" but not when used with "y". So the research continues. In your opinion, what is a "safer" drug alternative? There has to be both a pain and seditive mix - I'm just looking for alternatives.

Kiwideus, Ketamine is also known as Special K on the streets. Big on the club scene and causes many deaths.

2.5 hours before I pick up the little bundle of fur!!!

Kassandra, Glad to hear Nakita is doing fine. I was nervous when my cats were spayed, too. It is scary.

Hissy, I think I would have "accidentally" let the pitchfork slip, a pitchfork in the foot can be a subtle sign to get out.

I'm so glad Nakita is doing better.

i am so glad to hear that nakita is doing better. i remember when i had my cat's teeth cleaned, i brought her home from the vet and she must not have recovered completely from the anesthesia because she ended up falling down all of the basement steps! i just about fell down the steps too trying to get to her! i felt just terrible! but by the next morning, she was back to her old self. she just needed to sleep off the anesthesia.

Kassandra, first let me say how happy I am that Nakita is doing so much better! I went through a very similar experience with Jedi when he was neutered. The unstableness, the tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth, the "gagging", and him pulling so hard at his face like he was trying to pull something out of his mouth that he actually rubbed his face raw! And his eyes! His pupils were completely dilated and he had a "crazed" look in his eye. I cried for two hours when he first came home.

It was the most horrible night of my life as I was SURE that they had given him too much anesthesia and had damaged him permanently.

I stayed up with him all night...and he would not go to sleep! Finally, I guess he wore himself out from all the pawing at his face and drifted off to sleep. He was in and out all night, but he finally slept for about 3 hours, early the next morning.

When he awoke, he was SO much better! Walking normally, no stumbling, eyes looked normal and no more pawing at his face. He still seemed a little groggy, and didn't want to eat much, but I could tell he was going to be OK.

I feel for you so much having to go through that with Nakita...but am SO glad to hear she's OK.

Give your baby an extra snuggle from the DragonLady!

I'm so glad to hear Nakita will be ok.

Hissy, what a horrible story!! I'm glad to hear that vet is no longer practicing.

Kassandra, I'm so glad Nakita is doing well. Give her kitty kisses and snuggles from Ivo and I!

Oh my! I'm SO glad I read this. Boo goes in tomorrow for spaying, and I am going to make SURE they don't give her that stuff! How horrible!!!!!!!!!!

I've given Nakita all the kisses and hugs from everyone here.

She says thank you.....but she's still depressed!