Would anyone like a paralyzed cat?
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'Beautiful' was hit by a car (we assume) the day before Halloween. She was missing for two days, which we thought was odd. Normally, she would bound in the house the second we opened the door, but since she's so curious, she would occasionally get locked in the garage, or shed, or wherever, but after checking all those places and finding nothing, we were flummoxed.
Two days later, we found her dragging her little self down our long gravel driveway, mewing the whole time. :(
I took her to the vet, where they did x-rays and stuff, and although her back did not appear to be broken, her hips were, so we were at a bit of a 'wait and see' scenario.
Skip forward five weeks, and one chiropractor visit later, and we have a pretty well healed parapelegic cat. Not that SHE is put off by that at all, of course! She can boogey around pretty well on two legs, and is even PRETTY good at using the cat box (we've been using a cookie sheet with litter on it).
Anyhoo, we've been keeping her in a large dog cage, with a bed, food, water and litter, but that's not really much of a life. I'd just block her in the kitchen and let her live there, but the way our kitchen is made, there is no way to block it off, and we have OMG three sets of stairs in this house! Not good for broken pelvises.
So anyway, I'm not sure what to do. We had been waiting, with the expectation that we would give her some time to recover, and if she didn't get back her mobility, then we would put her to sleep. BUT SHE'S SO VIBRANT AND ACTIVE AND HAPPY that it seems like a crying shame to do that.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Takers?
She is already fixed!
'Beautiful' was hit by a car (we assume) the day before Halloween. She was missing for two days, which we thought was odd. Normally, she would bound in the house the second we opened the door, but since she's so curious, she would occasionally get locked in the garage, or shed, or wherever, but after checking all those places and finding nothing, we were flummoxed.
Two days later, we found her dragging her little self down our long gravel driveway, mewing the whole time. :(
I took her to the vet, where they did x-rays and stuff, and although her back did not appear to be broken, her hips were, so we were at a bit of a 'wait and see' scenario.
Skip forward five weeks, and one chiropractor visit later, and we have a pretty well healed parapelegic cat. Not that SHE is put off by that at all, of course! She can boogey around pretty well on two legs, and is even PRETTY good at using the cat box (we've been using a cookie sheet with litter on it).
Anyhoo, we've been keeping her in a large dog cage, with a bed, food, water and litter, but that's not really much of a life. I'd just block her in the kitchen and let her live there, but the way our kitchen is made, there is no way to block it off, and we have OMG three sets of stairs in this house! Not good for broken pelvises.
So anyway, I'm not sure what to do. We had been waiting, with the expectation that we would give her some time to recover, and if she didn't get back her mobility, then we would put her to sleep. BUT SHE'S SO VIBRANT AND ACTIVE AND HAPPY that it seems like a crying shame to do that.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Takers?
She is already fixed!
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Date: 2009-12-04 04:58 pm (UTC)I have a house with NO STAIRS, and i would take her in a heartbeat, but... I live a long way away, and I already have three medical cases, lol.
She's really gorgeous. You guys are so loving. <3<3
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Date: 2009-12-04 07:42 pm (UTC)I really can't have ANOTHER cat doing that in the house.
As for the humane society ... they put down HUNDREDS of cats every year. and these are healthy, able bodied cats. In fact, they were so over run that they called our pet store to see if we had any room!
We already do kitten rescue at our store. Believe me, there are more cats than people to take them.
Not to mention that I didn't WANT another cat! (we have two, plus a barn cat), but Beautiful just showed up on our doorstep a few months ago. Courtesy of our stoopid neighbours who don't fix their cats. I fixed her and gave her her first shots, but she was to remain an OUTSIDE cat. And now, she is inside and higher maintanence than our other two.