Our best friends (four legged) 2018 shots
OK, here is "Shelby" the soon to be three legged friend that was given to me last week.
After two teary days and a trip to the low cost spay and neuter clinic, my wife and I came to the conclusion that our home was not "what's best for the cat".
We have several cats already and for some reason the three girls we have do not get along.
Patch, the new girl is the best but she growls at Pip, the 2 yr old girl, and Pip and Missy (the 16 pound 4 yr old) are almost always fighting or stalking each other if they are not able to avoid each other. The guys do not seem to have this problem.
We decided it was not in the best interest for Shelby (who we found out is a girl) to be in that environment seeing as how she is a tiny kitten and would be learning to be without an entire limb.
The Vet said $220 for the amputation. The Vet tech girl actually said that If we couldn't afford it, that she would take her. We discussed us giving it a try and if things didn't work out at our house...we knew how to find her.
We have a friend of the family that works with SPCA and she happened to have a littler of black and white kittens scheduled to go in for spay/neuter at SPCA. She said that if we surrendered Shelby to SPCA, they would do the surgery (no cost to us), make sure she healed, and that there was a high likelihood that someone would want her simply because she is "special needs".
She is super sweet, super active and otherwise very healthy.
I had less than 5 minutes to come up with a gender non-specific name---"Shelby" was what came out.
Surgery is scheduled for today.
As found-
After 24 hours of recuperation and a little love-
OK, here is "Shelby" the soon to be three legged friend that was given to me last week.
After two teary days and a trip to the low cost spay and neuter clinic, my wife and I came to the conclusion that our home was not "what's best for the cat".
We have several cats already and for some reason the three girls we have do not get along.
Patch, the new girl is the best but she growls at Pip, the 2 yr old girl, and Pip and Missy (the 16 pound 4 yr old) are almost always fighting or stalking each other if they are not able to avoid each other. The guys do not seem to have this problem.
We decided it was not in the best interest for Shelby (who we found out is a girl) to be in that environment seeing as how she is a tiny kitten and would be learning to be without an entire limb.
The Vet said $220 for the amputation. The Vet tech girl actually said that If we couldn't afford it, that she would take her. We discussed us giving it a try and if things didn't work out at our house...we knew how to find her.
We have a friend of the family that works with SPCA and she happened to have a littler of black and white kittens scheduled to go in for spay/neuter at SPCA. She said that if we surrendered Shelby to SPCA, they would do the surgery (no cost to us), make sure she healed, and that there was a high likelihood that someone would want her simply because she is "special needs".
She is super sweet, super active and otherwise very healthy.
I had less than 5 minutes to come up with a gender non-specific name---"Shelby" was what came out.
Surgery is scheduled for today.
As found-
After 24 hours of recuperation and a little love-
