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Steve Touchstone - 01 Dec 2007 11:12 GMT Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK now that the meds have worn off. I had to stop her from jumping a couple times already, so will have to watch her so she doesn't pull the stitches. She doesn't seem to be in too much discomfort, but we all know how well cats can hide pain. I brought home a weeks worth of pain meds, which is to be given once a day. Before I hit the sack tonight she'll get the first dose. I remember I only gave Sammy a couple days worth, because without the pain I had trouble keeping Sam from running and jumping. I think this will work out better, because instead of a pill this is a two ml of oral solution. I'll start out with a full dose, but if Princess starts to run around more than I think she should I can give smaller doses.
Don't know if I already told you all, but I took four close up pics of Furby last night - one of them is now my cell wallpaper. I just uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces.
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Steve Touchstone - 01 Dec 2007 11:17 GMT snip should have added that they can be seen at
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/steve_touchstone/
>Don't know if I already told you all, but I took four close up pics of >Furby last night - one of them is now my cell wallpaper. I just >uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no >doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces.  Signature Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit, Spot, Princess and Furby with loving memories of Rocky (RB)
Kreisleriana - 01 Dec 2007 13:03 GMT > snip should have added that they can be seen at > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no >>doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces. She's a lovely little girl. One of those feline child moms, I guess. Babies having babies!
Victor Martinez - 01 Dec 2007 13:49 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK > now that the meds have worn off. I had to stop her from jumping a Congratulations!
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Karen - 01 Dec 2007 15:00 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no > doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces. I only had to give Sugar a half dose of pain meds the day after. It seemed to be enough to get her over the hump. Hope recovery is smooth!
Steve Touchstone - 02 Dec 2007 04:33 GMT >> Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from >> her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >I only had to give Sugar a half dose of pain meds the day after. It >seemed to be enough to get her over the hump. Hope recovery is smooth! Either I've become better at recognizing a cat in pain, or Princess isn't as good an actress as the others were. With her I can tell that she hurts from the way she sits and walks, and tell the difference about 10 minutes after giving her a dose of pain meds. BTW, she extremely easy to dose. I just sat on the floor, and when she came over to been petted I held her head and squirted the dose in her mouth. She licked a few times and gave me a disgusted look. I'm not sure if the look was because I quit petting her long enough to squirt it in her mouth or because of the taste ;-)
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Karen - 02 Dec 2007 19:46 GMT >>> Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from >>> her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > sure if the look was because I quit petting her long enough to squirt > it in her mouth or because of the taste ;-) I'm glad she is so cooperative! I hope she is getting along. How is Furby adapting?
Steve Touchstone - 03 Dec 2007 03:05 GMT >I'm glad she is so cooperative! I hope she is getting along. How is >Furby adapting? Furby has calmed down a lot. She will even venture out to where she can be seen when I'm in the room instead of hiding in the corner. I still have the end of an old fly rod Rocky and I used to play with outside. Last night I had to go fishing to get her when it was time to get her out from under the bed to return her to the bathroom. There's just something about the end of a string bouncing along the edge of a bed that always seems to bring a kitten out into the open ;-) Furby and I played with it for a while, it was time for Princess and her to go back into the bathroom and the resident cats to come in and sniff around. I've been bringing in the established cats one at a time to meet the new additions, and so far they're getting along better than I had hoped. Princess ignores them as long as she's alone, but acts like she wants to fight when Furby is in the room, too.
Nothing like Spotty was, though. Spotty went into attack mode and used to chase LB and Sammy out of the room. Princess hisses and lets everyone know to keep their distance, but doesn't try to chase anyone. Furby does the normal kitten thing and ignores the big bad hissing cat and does whatever she wants. So far, the only time anyone has swatted at Furby, it was Princess who got mad at Furby. Princess was warning Spotty away and Furby went trotting up to examine Spot closer. Furby stopped and looked at Princess, and Spot took the opportunity to jump up on the bed. When poor Furby turned back to where Spot had been and Spot on disappeared.
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Karen - 03 Dec 2007 03:53 GMT >> I'm glad she is so cooperative! I hope she is getting along. How is >> Furby adapting? [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > up on the bed. When poor Furby turned back to where Spot had been and > Spot on disappeared. That's great they are doing well. Sounds like if you just keep going like that all will be fine.
Lesley - 02 Dec 2007 18:05 GMT > I only had to give Sugar a half dose of pain meds the day after. It > seemed to be enough to get her over the hump. Over here in the Uk I have never been given pain meds after a spay (for the cats not me I hasten to add!). In fact one vet told me that they don't advise pain meds because the cat might then jump up and open the stitches whereas if they are in some pain it might stop them doing it. However I've never seen a cat show much distress after a spay, apart from Fugazi (RB) and that may have been needing to give her twice the anaesthetic because she went a bit mad. Sarsi and Dunzi were done at 9.30, collected by 1.30 and were home and eating before 2.30- our vets always give out a pate type food for the first few days in case they're feeling a bit queasy and I have never yet (and I know about 7 cats spayed or neutered at this practice) heard of any cat eating the stuff
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Marina - 03 Dec 2007 03:32 GMT >> I only had to give Sugar a half dose of pain meds the day after. It >> seemed to be enough to get her over the hump. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > were done at 9.30, collected by 1.30 and were home and eating before > 2.30 Same here - never got any pain meds after a spay. Miranda did look miserable the first day, but I attributed that as much to her body stocking and e-collar as to pain:
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Marina - 01 Dec 2007 18:39 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > with a full dose, but if Princess starts to run around more than I > think she should I can give smaller doses. Glad she is home and doing well. She's so young, she will snap right back from her surgery, I'm sure. She is such a pretty girl. She looks like a very skinny Caliban. :)
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Steve Touchstone - 02 Dec 2007 04:33 GMT >Glad she is home and doing well. She's so young, she will snap right >back from her surgery, I'm sure. She is such a pretty girl. She looks >like a very skinny Caliban. :) I'm not sure how long she'll be skinny LOL Right now, between her and Furby they're eating as much soft food and the other three put together.
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Joy - 01 Dec 2007 20:03 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no > doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces. I'm glad she's home and doing well.
Joy
bastXXXette@sonic.net - 01 Dec 2007 23:07 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK > now that the meds have worn off. I had to stop her from jumping a > couple times already Sounds like she's doing just fine! Glad she's home and recovering.
Joyce
sam - 01 Dec 2007 23:29 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no > doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces. Saw the pics, Steve. A cute couple of new owners. Hope the integration goes well.
Sam
Charleen Welton - 02 Dec 2007 23:48 GMT Your feline family is just adorable. The two youngsters are sweet.
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> Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no > doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces. Ginger-lyn - 03 Dec 2007 20:50 GMT > Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from > her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > with a full dose, but if Princess starts to run around more than I > think she should I can give smaller doses. Awwwww -- so glad Princess came home fine, but I know what you mean about worrying about the jumping and such. I know you'll worry no matter what, but honestly, IME, it's pretty rare that they do anything drastic enough to make a difference in their healing. I nearly tore my hair out over Merlyn when she was spayed (see Flippy's website and Dave Stevenson's for that story!), but she healed just beautifully. Katie was smarter, and didn't push it, but she healed so perfectly and was so easy, they just snipped the stitches out in the lobby area at the vet's (they were *very* busy, and knew my guys were pretty easy to deal with).
The liquid pain meds sounds like a great idea, and I bet that will help you out a lot.
> Don't know if I already told you all, but I took four close up pics of > Furby last night - one of them is now my cell wallpaper. I just > uploaded a pic of Princess, and you can see that although there's no > doubt Furby looks a lot like Princess, they do have different faces. Where are they?
Ginger-lyn now that I have DSL, I can SEE photos!
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Steve Touchstone - 04 Dec 2007 10:18 GMT >> Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from >> her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > >Where are they? The pics are here
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/steve_touchstone/
seems like there's a couple news ones every day or so.
As far as the pain meds go, she got a full dose the first day, half a dose the second, and probably won't need a dose today. They bounce back a lot faster than I would LOL, and she seems to be a lot better at not pushing things than the others. Maybe it helps that she stays segregated in the bathroom for the most part.
The integration is slow but steady. Little Bit was upset with me last night, when it was time for her to go to bed Furby was on my chest, and LB let me know it with a hissy fit. As usual, the kitten ignored the big bad hissy cat.
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tanadashoes - 04 Dec 2007 15:27 GMT > The pics are here > > http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/steve_touchstone/ > > seems like there's a couple news ones every day or so. They look better with each picture. You're doing a grand job with all of them, Steve. Furby looks a little like Pine Cone did as a kitten. I think Piney has more brown in his tabby. Probably a reminder of his coney beginnings.;-)
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Karen - 05 Dec 2007 04:28 GMT >>> Picked up Princess from TED this afternoon and she's recuperating from >>> her spay. She seemed a little wobbly when I picked her up, but is OK [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > and LB let me know it with a hissy fit. As usual, the kitten ignored > the big bad hissy cat. Eek. I love the littel mom/daughter shots!
Steve Touchstone - 05 Dec 2007 09:19 GMT >> The pics are here >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Eek. I love the littel mom/daughter shots! So far the only time I can get them in the same pic is when they're eating. Last night they were both playing with the "mouse" on the fly rod toy I made for Rocky, but of course the cell phone was plugged in the bathroom
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