Hello, my name is Alan and I'm new to the board. I just found this board a couple of days ago and I must say I'm really impressed how nice the site is. My family and I just adopted a male 5 month old kitten that is a russian blue from a humane society. I must admit that I wasn't a cat fancier by no means, but this kitten has won me over ten fold! So far it has been a little bit of a shakey start for the little guy. We took him to the vet for his first check up and he failed somewhat. The vet said that Booda has chalymidia(sp?) or URI so he administered antibiodics. Then he said it has fleas, which we knew, so then came the Frontline treatment. That was some impressive stuff. Other than that he said that he was healthy. Now we are waiting on the URI to get cleared up so he can get nuetered on the 14th. I know that a lot of people are against declawing, but he might have that done at the same time of the nuetering since the vet said that would be the best way to have it all done. Anyways, I hope not to be banished from the board if I do go ahead with the declawing, because it sure is nice to have a place to come for advice.
Alan
Alan