it's times like these where I joke about the vet investing in some
anesthetic blow darts.  :)

I once tried to get a cat with a towel and couldn't do it.  if you came
to my clinic, Bandit would have BIG RED BOX around her name with a note
saying "only senior techs handle"  yeeks

Glad to hear that she's home and purrs that she'll feel better soon.

Is Sammy not allowed to see her?

Kristi

Yes, Sammy is the only one who can come give her nose kisses (and actually
the only one who *wants* to).  Sammy is fearless cough(stupid)cough.  She
has led *such* a pampered and sheltered life that she isn't afraid of
anything.  One part of me is glad that she's like that, but I fear that if
she ever accidently gets out of the house she won't have the sense to stay
away from dangerous things/people/dogs.

Bandit most definitely has a BIG RED BOX around her name and even the senior
techs are afraid of her.  I think that's probably why this all happened in
the first place - everyone was too afraid to go check on her and move her
around so she stayed in one spot on the heating pad and got burned.  She
isn't all bluff either - when she bites, she bites down to the bone.  I have
scars on my hands and arms from the times she's nailed me with tooth or claw
when going after somebody else and I got in the way - and she *loves* me.

One poor vet tech was once sent to the hospital because of her.  I kept
telling the vet to let me hold her while he examined her, but it was one of
those places where it was policy that they wouldn't do that.  He had the
tech put on leather gloves and try to hold her.  She flipped over onto her
back and with her back claws laid his forearm open from elbow to wrist.  I
felt really bad about it, he must have needed 50 or more stitches.  I
freaked - there was blood everywhere.  But I can flip her over and give her
bugga belly with my face buried in her fur.  I demonstrated this to the vet
after she did that and he finally let me hold her.

Today, as pulled her over so I could look at her belly and then I walked out
with her cradled in my arms like a baby, the techs just looked on with wide
eyes.

Hugs,

CatNipped

Practice makes perfect.  The first couple of times I tried, I failed
miserably and had a majorly PO'd cat to deal with.  After about a
month, I could towel any cat, any time, as long as it wasn't a big
feral.

-L.

hahahaha!!  Well, I guess that ONE way to cover an abdominal bandage.

I should print that one out and show it to my professor

kristi

They have stainless steel sutures closing the wound and want me to leave it
open but keep it clean and dry.  I got some "Yesterday's Mews" litter so she
doesn't get any dust or clay in the wound.

I am, however, having *MAJOR* problems getting the clavimix down her throat,
so any advice with that would help (I posted about it in a new thread).

Hugs,

CatNipped

When Princess (RB 16) adopted me     I took her in to be spayed.  The Vet
opened her and found she had already been done.  When I took her home she
would not leave her incision alone, so I tried to wrap her tummy with an
ace bandage.  Princess then would only walk backwards.....this continued
until the bandage was removed.   (She has been gone for eight years and I
still miss her.   MLB