Re: Percy

I picked him up from the vet this afternoon. She suggested I try to slowly reintroduce him to the colony since he is now "different." You should have seen the look on his face with his blue Elizabethan collar in place. I must say I was thoroughly cursed by him. At any rate I have put him in Otis's huge (and now unused) crate with his own food, water and litter box. He is in the middle of all the other cats, but nobody can bother him until he is a little more sure of himself. I'll probably keep him corralled until his stitches and collar come off in two weeks. I'm going to give him his antibiotic and pain medicine now. 
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy
Ohhhhh...I'm so sorry to hear that Zem. My vet has a three-legged cat named "Tripod" and I have a friend who also had to do that to their cat. It was an outside cat and it was on the roof and tried to jump from the gutter of the house to a tree and got it's leg caught in the space between the roof and gutter (gutter was in need of repair I would say) and was hanging upside down with a broken leg. Poor baby. But after the amputation, they both get around just fine. Tripod is an awesome cat. 


Zemuly Sanders <zemuly@comcast.net> wrote:
Thanks, you all. I'm sure he'll do fine. His best friend is Fleur, and she 
has never missed have four operable legs. He'll be relieved, I'm sure, to
no longer lugging around that heavy cast.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" 
To:
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy



I've read some remarkable stories about how well they can adapt to a
missing
limb, but I do hate it for him and for you. Thank goodness he is an
indoor
baby. Poor lil' ol Percy! And poor Zem's bank account!

On 9/13/07, Kitty wrote:


Oh, I am so sorry for the little guy and you. I suppose it will take
some
time getting used to losing the leg, but he'll adapt, but what a shame.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zemuly Sanders"
To: "gardenchat"
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Percy


>I took Percy to have his leg checked today. The vet called and said the
>leg
> was not healing properly at the point where the skin had been
broken. He
> suggested amputation was the best route to follow in this case, so > that 
is
> what was done. I had to also consider the cost factor, and amputation
at
> $800
> was less than half the cost of having the ankle "pinned" and frozen in
> place.
> In addition pinning was not going to be guaranteed because of the > large 
> open
> wound. At any rate, Percy will be fine since he never goes outside
> anyway.
> I'm sorry he has been through such an ordeal, and I'm sorry it's
> costing
> me so
> much! We will both adapt, I'm sure. I will pick him up tomorrow
> afternoon.
> zem
>
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Kemp TX
zone 8A

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