In my last thread, I posted about how we "inherited" 2 young cats from some neighbors across the street, who decided they preferred a puppy to the cats they adopted.
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,30753.0.html I am absolutely enraged at these people, more so than I was!
When we got the cats from them (Oscar and Minnie), I asked specifically if Minnie had been spayed. Both of them assured me she was. I asked several times for their medical and adoption records, I'm pretty particular about keeping copies of paperwork, and kept getting the runaround from them. Finally, my OH said, never mind. Oscar went in for his neuter a few days later (we got them on Friday 5 March, Oscar was neutered on 15th). Since we couldn't see a spay scar on Minnie, and thought it could have been done in the side which is harder to see, we figured we'd just keep an eye on her and if she didn't go into heat, she should be ok. We keep our cats inside anyhow (urban area), only in garden with us. Well, last week, we noticed Minnie (who is very small and delicate, half Oscar's size, must have been the runt) was getting a bit portly around the middle; we thought maybe we were giving her too much food, as she's so small. Then on Friday, the penny dropped; I remembered they had been letting Minnie go out in the filthy alley next to their house. I though...crap, maybe she got pregnant.
Sure enough, I took her to vet yesterday (Monday) and although the vet couldn't feel anything, a scan showed she was indeed pregnant, and must have gotten so just a couple days before we got her. No wonder the jerks who had her blew me off about her medical records.
After much discussion with our vet, we decided to have a pregnant spay done on her. She is so small, there was virtually no way she could have carried the kittens to term and delivered; during the surgery, the vet found there would have been 6 (!) kittens.
So it would have been a bad situation all around. I know some folks will be upset that we went ahead and had that done, but it was really in the best interest of Minnie.
So she had her surgery yesterday afternoon, and was awake and charming all the nurses by 6pm (and asking politely for her dinner...heh!! She's a real favorite, she chirps and talks a lot, so is getting plenty of cosseting. The vet will keep her there until Friday, to let things settle; it was a big deal for such a little girl. Plus with the other 5 here, we want to make sure she has time for the healing to start without any upset. We are very lucky with our vet, they are only charging me about a third of the hospitalization price for each day (normally 36 per night, only charging me 12 per night!).
I'm so furious at the
across the street I can't hardly see straight. How selfish and disgusting, to care so little about this lovely little kitty. I'm really biting my tongue, don't want to get into a urinary Olympics with them as they are "neighbors" (inject sarcasm to that word!) but it's tough. At least Minnie ended up with us, and we'll take best care of her.
Thanks for listening!
