Re: Spayed twice - Marylyn
They were looking at the hormone levels. There are two tests that can be run. I don't understand the details but the one they ran on Dixie was a simple blood test. The other involves giving the cat hormones and seeing what the reaction is. I would have loved to have seen my vet's face when the test results came in. He was very sure she was intact. Anyway, when he called it was "Dixie is either a male or she has been spayed." I understand an ultrasound and a very good reader can tell. I was a big believer in animal communicators before this. Now I am totally convinced. What are the odds of a cat who has been thrown away being spayed and showing up at my house? Then having enough sense to tell two friends that she absolutely did not need to go to the vet's again? My vet was against letting her come into heat if we could prevent it. He said the spaying would be less traumatic for her than coming into heat. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man. St. Francis - Original Message - From: Tad Burnett To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:35 PM Subject: Re: Spayed twice - Marylyn If she can't come in contact with an intact maleyou can wait and see if she comes in heatTadNina wrote: Marylyn,A neighbor of mine rescued a kitty off the street and asked me to have her spayed. Of course, she had very little money so I asked a local shelter if we could do it through them. Poor kitty was opened up only to find she had already been spayed. She was never the same after that. She was never really a friendly cat, but after that she wouldn't let anyone touch her except through a brush. Very sad. I had simply turned her over to this group, I'll never do that again. I always take any cats into the vet myself now. Who knows if she had rough treatment, or disrespectful treatment, when I wasn't there. Hard lesson learned.What were the vets looking for with the blood test? Reduced hormone levels? I have always been told, if you can't see the scar, there's no way to know if they've been spayed before. I would do anything not to put another cat through an experience like that poor kitty endured.NinaMarylyn wrote: I took Dixie Louise to my vet to be spayed and she tested positive for FeLV. There were lots of conversations about how to handle the "situation" especially since I have Kitty, a FeLV neg cat who has cancer. To get to the point, all the vets at the clinic, who are very friendly to all the oddities I bring in, supported having her spayed because it was a lot less stressful than going into heat several times a year and certainly less stressful than a pregnancy. <>I have friends who are animal communicators and Dixie kept telling them she had been to the vet before. I had my vets run a blood test when they could find no surgery scar. Seems like Dixie had been spayed by someone in the past. Luckily, my AC friends were there for her or she would have had surgery a second time. It is highly unlikely this would ever happen again.
Re: Spayed twice - Marylyn
If she can't come in contact with an intact male you can wait and see if she comes in heat Tad Nina wrote: Marylyn, A neighbor of mine rescued a kitty off the street and asked me to have her spayed. Of course, she had very little money so I asked a local shelter if we could do it through them. Poor kitty was opened up only to find she had already been spayed. She was never the same after that. She was never really a friendly cat, but after that she wouldn't let anyone touch her except through a brush. Very sad. I had simply turned her over to this group, I'll never do that again. I always take any cats into the vet myself now. Who knows if she had rough treatment, or disrespectful treatment, when I wasn't there. Hard lesson learned. What were the vets looking for with the blood test? Reduced hormone levels? I have always been told, if you can't see the scar, there's no way to know if they've been spayed before. I would do anything not to put another cat through an experience like that poor kitty endured. Nina Marylyn wrote: I took Dixie Louise to my vet to be spayed and she tested positive for FeLV. There were lots of conversations about how to handle the "situation" especially since I have Kitty, a FeLV neg cat who has cancer. To get to the point, all the vets at the clinic, who are very friendly to all the oddities I bring in, supported having her spayed because it was a lot less stressful than going into heat several times a year and certainly less stressful than a pregnancy. <>I have friends who are animal communicators and Dixie kept telling them she had been to the vet before. I had my vets run a blood test when they could find no surgery scar. Seems like Dixie had been spayed by someone in the past. Luckily, my AC friends were there for her or she would have had surgery a second time. It is highly unlikely this would ever happen again.
Spayed twice - Marylyn
Marylyn, A neighbor of mine rescued a kitty off the street and asked me to have her spayed. Of course, she had very little money so I asked a local shelter if we could do it through them. Poor kitty was opened up only to find she had already been spayed. She was never the same after that. She was never really a friendly cat, but after that she wouldn't let anyone touch her except through a brush. Very sad. I had simply turned her over to this group, I'll never do that again. I always take any cats into the vet myself now. Who knows if she had rough treatment, or disrespectful treatment, when I wasn't there. Hard lesson learned. What were the vets looking for with the blood test? Reduced hormone levels? I have always been told, if you can't see the scar, there's no way to know if they've been spayed before. I would do anything not to put another cat through an experience like that poor kitty endured. Nina Marylyn wrote: I took Dixie Louise to my vet to be spayed and she tested positive for FeLV. There were lots of conversations about how to handle the "situation" especially since I have Kitty, a FeLV neg cat who has cancer. To get to the point, all the vets at the clinic, who are very friendly to all the oddities I bring in, supported having her spayed because it was a lot less stressful than going into heat several times a year and certainly less stressful than a pregnancy. <>I have friends who are animal communicators and Dixie kept telling them she had been to the vet before. I had my vets run a blood test when they could find no surgery scar. Seems like Dixie had been spayed by someone in the past. Luckily, my AC friends were there for her or she would have had surgery a second time. It is highly unlikely this would ever happen again.
