I got my female cat neutered last year.
Last night she started miaowing and she is normally almost mute. She has also been sitting on my lap and she is not a lap cat. I got 2 hours sleep last night due to the all the noise and when I found her parading around the house with bum in the air I knew she was in heat.
Went to the vets this morning with her and very matter of factly they said they'd had a recent similar case. They said its either vet error and some "remnants" had been left behind causing a hormone surge, or she has had other female tissue etc growing elsewhere that they wouldn't know about causing the same thing. She then said she graciously wouldn't charge us for this 5 minute consultation, that the only solution is major surgery, as in cutting her all the way down her middle and rumaging around. If its vet error it would be free otherwise we pay for it.
This is also in the context that 2 months ago the same vet practice gave us antibiotics for dogs by mistake instead of for cats, some 10 times stronger than needed! When this was pointed out to them they initially refused to swap the medicine telling us to cut it up instead , we had to kick up a fuss for it to be sorted.
So we feel petrified of having our cat treated by this vet again. Im going to go to another vets on Monday and dont care about the cost.
But I don't know about the surgery . It seems so severe and she is a very small cat. I am worried she wouldn't make it.
But ive spent today with her and she is so distracted by calling for boys she is off her food and frightened the neighbours with her yelping. Our other cat is also freaked out and has been brawling with her more which has created tension between them.
To cap it all off I had just agreed to take in an unwanted neutered boy cat. Do I cancel this?
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deliasmithy · 18/05/2013 17:39
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