I took little Torbie girl (no name yet) to the vet today. I ended up taking her still inside the hockey skate she calls home, and putting it in the cat carrier rather than struggling with her in the closet.
Luckily for me, my vet has a very good stray/feral policy. They may be really expensive for housecats, but they do full check ups with meds on strays and ferals for free, as long as the person bringing them in signs an agreement to either keep the cat or bring the cat to a no-kill shelter afterward. The vet I go to has two more established vets and one just-graduated vet, and guess who gets stuck doing the stray exams?
He's my favorite vet anyway, he's the one who always sees my cats, and he was absolutely amazing with this little girl.
He did a combo snap test (Neg/Neg!), dosed her with frontline, checked for ear mites (how the heck did she not have any?), dosed her with ear mite meds just to be safe, and double checked her spay incision. He said there were only a few vets in the area who could have done it, since they used metal internal sutures which are not common in this area. She was terrified, and he managed to do the entire check up in two rounds of 30 seconds each so she wouldn't get too stressed. First he did the regular physical exam, ear wax pull, and snap test in under 30 seconds, and let her go back into her skate. When the wax and snap test results came back, he pulled her out for a quick distemper, frontline, and ear med dosing, which was amazing to watch since he did it incredibly fast and fluid. He wants to wait two weeks for rabies since so much happened to her at once.
The vet gave her a clean bill of health, and said she did look to be somewhere between 3 and 4 months due to her having lost one tooth already. She weighed in at 3 pounds, which is actually less than Tails weighed when I adopted him at 8 weeks
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Oh, and I totally forgot to ask the vet, how long should I keep her seperated from Memphis and Tails to be sure the fleas are all eradicated?
Luckily for me, my vet has a very good stray/feral policy. They may be really expensive for housecats, but they do full check ups with meds on strays and ferals for free, as long as the person bringing them in signs an agreement to either keep the cat or bring the cat to a no-kill shelter afterward. The vet I go to has two more established vets and one just-graduated vet, and guess who gets stuck doing the stray exams?
He did a combo snap test (Neg/Neg!), dosed her with frontline, checked for ear mites (how the heck did she not have any?), dosed her with ear mite meds just to be safe, and double checked her spay incision. He said there were only a few vets in the area who could have done it, since they used metal internal sutures which are not common in this area. She was terrified, and he managed to do the entire check up in two rounds of 30 seconds each so she wouldn't get too stressed. First he did the regular physical exam, ear wax pull, and snap test in under 30 seconds, and let her go back into her skate. When the wax and snap test results came back, he pulled her out for a quick distemper, frontline, and ear med dosing, which was amazing to watch since he did it incredibly fast and fluid. He wants to wait two weeks for rabies since so much happened to her at once.
The vet gave her a clean bill of health, and said she did look to be somewhere between 3 and 4 months due to her having lost one tooth already. She weighed in at 3 pounds, which is actually less than Tails weighed when I adopted him at 8 weeks
Oh, and I totally forgot to ask the vet, how long should I keep her seperated from Memphis and Tails to be sure the fleas are all eradicated?
