Sky is having an ultrasound at 5pm today in Courtenay. It's a bit over an hour drive down the highway, but the vet office is supposed to be state of the art and a bit 'posh'. They were recommended to me by my friends who only raw feed their dogs and cats and are manic in their animal care... It doesn't surprise me that they avoid vets in our town.
My current vet is opposed to testing, either vaginally or through blood, to see if there could be some issue preventing pregnancy. So, I have been looking into alternate vets who will be open-minded enough to look at options other than spaying. Both vets in my town openly rolled their eyes at me when I suggested group G strep or ANYTHING that my breeding mentors say. They say that breeders are all nuts. I'm thinking that 10 to 30 years of cat breeding would provide a whole lot of experiential knowledge that may not be taught in an institution but can be valid just the same.
All I want is to find a vet who will work with me in finding some solutions.
On another note - I'm rather down right now as I had a bad experience on another board. My BF and I have been researching dog breeds for getting a puppy about 2 years from now. We have tentatively decided on a labrador retriever, so I posted our thoughts to a North American Lab forum.. just like this one for cats. Well, I was basically dragged over the coals.. they made assumptions about me and questioned my motives.. one even suggesting that my BF and i shouldn't even be thinking about getting a dog because we MAY break-up.
It's disheartening and while I understand that people get protective of their breeds, whether cat or dog, pouncing with such a high degree of self-righteousness is hard to take. They actually made me cry, lol. I had posted that I love my GSD, but I'd rather look at a "mellower" dog for the future (as our next dog) as my GSD has aggression issues with other dogs. So I get jumped on as a bad dog owner because my dog doesn't like other dogs and it's all my fault. Sigh.. trying to shake it off.
My current vet is opposed to testing, either vaginally or through blood, to see if there could be some issue preventing pregnancy. So, I have been looking into alternate vets who will be open-minded enough to look at options other than spaying. Both vets in my town openly rolled their eyes at me when I suggested group G strep or ANYTHING that my breeding mentors say. They say that breeders are all nuts. I'm thinking that 10 to 30 years of cat breeding would provide a whole lot of experiential knowledge that may not be taught in an institution but can be valid just the same.
All I want is to find a vet who will work with me in finding some solutions.
On another note - I'm rather down right now as I had a bad experience on another board. My BF and I have been researching dog breeds for getting a puppy about 2 years from now. We have tentatively decided on a labrador retriever, so I posted our thoughts to a North American Lab forum.. just like this one for cats. Well, I was basically dragged over the coals.. they made assumptions about me and questioned my motives.. one even suggesting that my BF and i shouldn't even be thinking about getting a dog because we MAY break-up.
It's disheartening and while I understand that people get protective of their breeds, whether cat or dog, pouncing with such a high degree of self-righteousness is hard to take. They actually made me cry, lol. I had posted that I love my GSD, but I'd rather look at a "mellower" dog for the future (as our next dog) as my GSD has aggression issues with other dogs. So I get jumped on as a bad dog owner because my dog doesn't like other dogs and it's all my fault. Sigh.. trying to shake it off.
Congratulations! 
I found that queens are fairly consistent in the number of kittens they produce, but I'm sure you'd even be dancing for a singleton 
We do all we can to anticipate and prevent any possible problems, but if we can't. . . well, that's what the emergency vet is for!
