RE: Percy

Poor baby, hope he's doing okay.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Zemuly Sanders
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:47 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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>>
>> --
>> Pam Evans
>> Kemp TX
>> zone 8A
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