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They were looking at the hormone levels.
There are two tests that can be run. I don't understand the details but
the one they ran on Dixie was a simple blood test. The other involves
giving the cat hormones and seeing what the reaction is. I would
have loved to have seen my vet's face when the test results came in. He
was very sure she was intact. Anyway, when he called it was "Dixie is
either a male or she has been spayed." I understand an ultrasound and a
very good reader can tell. I was a big believer in animal communicators
before this. Now I am totally convinced. What are the odds of a cat
who has been thrown away being spayed and showing up at my house? Then
having enough sense to tell two friends that she absolutely did not need to go
to the vet's again?
My vet was against letting her come into heat if we
could prevent it. He said the spaying would be less traumatic for her than
coming into heat.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's
creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with their fellow
man.
St. Francis
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:35
PM
Subject: Re: Spayed twice - Marylyn
If she can't come in contact
with an intact male
you can wait and see if she comes in
heat....
Tad
Nina wrote:
Marylyn,
A
neighbor of mine rescued a kitty off the street and asked me to have her
spayed. Of course, she had very little money so I asked a local
shelter if we could do it through them. Poor kitty was opened up only
to find she had already been spayed. She was never the same after
that. She was never really a friendly cat, but after that she wouldn't
let anyone touch her except through a brush. Very sad. I had
simply turned her over to this group, I'll never do that again. I
always take any cats into the vet myself now. Who knows if she had
rough treatment, or disrespectful treatment, when I wasn't there. Hard
lesson learned.
What were the vets looking for with the blood
test? Reduced hormone levels? I have always been told, if you
can't see the scar, there's no way to know if they've been spayed
before. I would do anything not to put another cat through an
experience like that poor kitty endured.
Nina
Marylyn wrote:
I took Dixie Louise to my vet to be spayed
and she tested positive for FeLV. There were lots of conversations
about how to handle the "situation" especially since I have Kitty, a FeLV
neg cat who has cancer. To get to the point, all the vets at the
clinic, who are very friendly to all the oddities I bring in, supported
having her spayed because it was a lot less stressful than going into heat
several times a year and certainly less stressful than a
pregnancy.
<>I have friends who
are animal communicators and Dixie kept telling them she had been to
the vet before. I had my vets run a blood test when they could
find no surgery scar. Seems like Dixie had been spayed by someone in
the past. Luckily, my AC friends were there for her or she would
have had surgery a second time. It is highly unlikely this
would ever happen again.
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