Originally Posted by Taryn  I only spay the ones that stick around(therefore are 'mine') or, in the case of Half-tail, I know where they came from and are essentially 'mine'(she was born to either Goldie or Biter.) Just reminded me, if some low cost spay/neuter won't take her I'm prolly going to end up with more unwanted kittens and a dead cat(she is way too small to have a safe pregnancy.) For some reason they are all doing only shelter cats and she went into heat and I know all 3 of my males(which includes 2 of her brothers) most likely nailed her. I know Goldie Jr did and her and Blue(the only one not related to everyone else) were a little too cozy when she was in heat. I don't want or need any more dang cats. My 2 inside and 6 outside are way more than enough and are really too many.
Attitude and Nuts don't leave the house unless I have them on a harness. No one else here cares about cats so it all comes down to me and my boyfriend to take care of them(even though our neighbor Mitzi will help pay to get the females spayed.) The witch(remove the w and replace with a b) up the street gets animals for some unknown reason and then won't feed or take care of them(Mitzi has already had to rescue 2 of her half dead starving dogs and it took a rescue over 6 months to get them into shape enough to even be offered for adoption.) I was half tempted to grab her starving Siamese and get her spayed, but I couldn't because she was an 'owned' animal(even if her owner was a total deadbeat and never took care of her.) She thankfully died after having her 3rd litter of the summer, none of the kittens from her first 2 litters survived. I would know they all come here to eat. Her death was a good thing since it was the end of her suffering. My cats hated her and chased her off any chance they got. The last time I saw her was after she gave birth and my 2 females, Mama and Biter were chasing her off because she was across the street so she never really got enough to eat even when I tried to feed her. She refused to get along with them so they wanted nothing to do with her. She almost got attacked after trying to go after Mama's kitten. All 3 females came running ready to rip her to shreds. Even the rest of the kittens despised her, every time she came around Nuts would arch his back puff up and hiss at her. Kind of funny to see a 4 week old kitten doing that. They all accepted Blue no problem, he just showed up one day and decided to stay and the others didn't care. Hell, if I wasn't certain she had leukemia(and was most likely the source of it being endemic here, everyone has it) I would have shuttled her off to the rescue Mitzi used for the dogs. Woman didn't even care when the dogs disappeared. I hate her(and yes I mean HATE, and I don't normally hate anyone) for her mistreatment of her animals. She has a little min-pin or something like that and a pit, and I think she has a black cat. I just don't know why she keeps getting animals when she doesn't take care of them and doesn't even FEED them. I mean it isn't that expensive to get animal food, I mean feeding them crap is better than totally not feeding them.
I just hope once I get Half tail done that no one else dumps any more females(or males for that matter, I'm sick of new cats), once she is done all the females will be fixed. Runt, Goldie Jr and Blue are the only males I know of and we can't afford to get them done. They aren't my cats voluntarily, they got dumped on us, well Mama got dumped and the population went from there and Blue was dumped as well. Both know what a litter box is and it's proper use, when I had Mama inside after her prolapse she used the litter box exclusively until she decided she had had enough of being inside and let herself out after a week. She likes it here just only outside, none except Blue(he let himself in one day when him and Nuts were getting acquainted and didn't freak when the door closed and doesn't mind being picked up) have ever been comfortable inside. Biter and Goldie were from the resident male at the time a fat grey tabby that got run over and killed, so the next resident tom we had was a black and white tom(who was dumped here one day) who got Mama, Goldie, Biter(plus Callie and the damn Siamese) pregnant and from Mama, Biter, Goldie and Callie we ended up with 15 living kittens(including Attitude, Nuts, Runt, Half tail, Goldie Jr.) He has now disappeared(he didn't show up to 'service' Half tail when she went into heat) so he didn't survive the winter. Now there are Runt, Blue and Goldie Jr and they are all males and Half tail is last intact female I know of. Attitude and Nuts have had full vet care(Attitude is spayed and Nuts will be neutered as soon as I can afford it Attitude always seems to eat that money by needing to go the vet for something, stupid cat), I wanted them and they are 'voluntarily' mine(well they showed up at 4 weeks old when their mother decided to move them all in under our shed) and I could afford them. They all stayed outside until 12+ weeks so I didn't take them too soon from their mothers.
If I get one more dumped cat I swear I am going to hunt down the owner and I don't know what I'll do but it will prolly be bloody. I don't want any more cats. Yes, kittens are cute but I don't need any more mouths too feed I already spend too much on cat food. I also don't need any more cats to fix.
Sorry got off topic with my rant it just makes me mad. I get all these cats dumped on me and I have to be the one to take care of them.
Seriously ask your vet why she needs to stay for 3 days. I think she'd recover a lot better at home than in a vet's office and besides I'd rather my cat get home quickly and greatly reduce the risk of them bringing back fleas(the gift that keeps on giving), not to mention to just be home to recover. I hated being hospitalized for 3 days after having my son and I was glad when my gallbladder was ripped out I could go home the same day, I feel much more comfortable at home and I'd imagine pets feel the same way. My vet only keeps them overnight if the owner can't drop them off the next morning due to work(or whatever) or can't pick them up that night, due to work(or whatever) or there are complications and that's just overnight. Out of all the fixed animals I have dealt with I have yet to have one 'split open', I know it happens but it's really rather rare if the vet knows what the heck they are doing.
Taryn
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They are only for emergencies, they are only open from like 5pm-8am or something like that. That is crazy about the dog jumping out of their transportation! That is aweful.
There's no cost to get the stitches out or if the cat has to come back in for anything - such as an incision infection (aside from med I'm sent home with). None of my female cats have ever picked/licked at them. My poor little girl Blasa wouldn't even lick around them because she didn't like getting her tongue pricked on the stitches - it was actually amusing to watch her face when first she tried. 
My other female cat ( one and a half year old and fixed) was smelling her behind just a few minutes ago and then got very angry at her. She even hit her very hard with a cat-boxing manner. 
