Hello everyone,
Wendy's first two ringworm cultures are negative so we can finally have her spayed. She's almost 6 months old, and healthy. She's an indoor cat, but I didn't want her to go into heat while we waited for those cultures. The first one took 34 days, not the 21 days they promised!
She is a sweet-natured but skittish feral kitten. She's making slow, steady progress at learning to enjoy being petted, etc. It hasn't been easy for her, since we've had to give her nasty medicine and treatments almost the whole time we've had her. She's had more evil-smelling lime-sulfur dips at the groomer than I care to count. (If I were her, I'd NEVER come near us. But Wendy is good-natured.)
I'm wondering if you have any advice that will help her with her surgery and recovery.
We're going to have her micro-chipped. Because she is young, I think she won't need the optional, expensive pre-op bloodwork our vet offers. Agree?
She will be staying overnight at the vet, which I think is good, as long as she doesn't freak out over being in a strange place.
My main concern is that this will be a major setback to her socialization. Also, she loves to play with her brother Possum, and we can't really separate them if we need to protect her stitches. This is a small apartment. I suppose we could shut one in the bathroom, but they'd both hate that.
Any thoughts or suggestions will be welcome!
Thanks!
Wendy's first two ringworm cultures are negative so we can finally have her spayed. She's almost 6 months old, and healthy. She's an indoor cat, but I didn't want her to go into heat while we waited for those cultures. The first one took 34 days, not the 21 days they promised!
She is a sweet-natured but skittish feral kitten. She's making slow, steady progress at learning to enjoy being petted, etc. It hasn't been easy for her, since we've had to give her nasty medicine and treatments almost the whole time we've had her. She's had more evil-smelling lime-sulfur dips at the groomer than I care to count. (If I were her, I'd NEVER come near us. But Wendy is good-natured.)
I'm wondering if you have any advice that will help her with her surgery and recovery.
We're going to have her micro-chipped. Because she is young, I think she won't need the optional, expensive pre-op bloodwork our vet offers. Agree?
She will be staying overnight at the vet, which I think is good, as long as she doesn't freak out over being in a strange place.
My main concern is that this will be a major setback to her socialization. Also, she loves to play with her brother Possum, and we can't really separate them if we need to protect her stitches. This is a small apartment. I suppose we could shut one in the bathroom, but they'd both hate that.
Any thoughts or suggestions will be welcome!
Thanks!
