The Veterinary Review February 4, 2021

I have two weeks of veterinary care to write about, having missed last week’s post.

We have actually had a bit of a busy time of it. Last week we took our old lady Autumn in for annual bloodwork because she had lost more weight. She has steadily been dropping 1/2 pound to 3/4 pound yearly for about 5 years now. Autumn is almost 16 years old, and a very small cat to begin with - only 7 pounds at her largest. She is down to 4.8 now. She does not look emaciated as most cats would at that weight - she looks fine, but you notice it when you feel her bumpy spine and narrow sides. Her bloodwork came back perfect, though! She is not only healthy for 16, she is just plain healthy! (minus some arthritis which we treat)

Autumn in her youth

C3PO went in at the same time as Autumn - also for weight loss. In his case, he is a young cat, maybe 3 years old. There was nothing obvious on the examination so we ran bloodwork on him also. His came back showing signs of an aggressive infection. We are fighting back aggressively.

That same day we had our usual acupuncture appointment for Jason, Athena, Hiccup, Trinket, and Tonks.

Tennessee finally had his dental work done! The procedure went perfectly. Most of his teeth were already gone but he had 4 extracted including one major one that was causing him all the trouble. He only has 4 teeth left now. He will do so much better now that the infection is gone from his head, though.

Our two babies with the little twisted front legs, Sassy and Alder, had their spay and neuter done finally! One of our employees is adopting Alder, but Sassy is now available for adoption locally!

Our newest boy Triton went in for his initial workup and x-rays. Triton is another paraplegic boy that we have no history on, so the doc did x-rays to see if we could figure out why he is paraplegic. The x-rays did not tell us anything. No signs of trauma, no broken bones, maybe a slight tail-pull. We will never know, so we will just treat his symptoms like we do all of the others!

Miss Piggy went in for the first time to see the doc. We traded two heathy cats to a local adoption group for Miss Piggy who suffers from Manx syndrome. She leaks stool nearly constantly. I have not found a diet for her yet that will firm her stool up, but I am trying. She has a Manx tail at the head of her tail, but it is longer, curling around and back. The last 1/4 to 1/3 of it is constantly collecting stool. I discussed this with the doc and we agreed it would be best to remove approximately half of her tail for sanitary reasons.

*Whew!* Kind of busy these past two weeks. Weeks like these happen with regularity around here. There is always someone that needs to go to the vet for something. Plus acupuncture.

See you next week!
-Mimi