Coco's first vet visit
Dec. 4th, 2010 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tenayaWe're back from the vets. We left Coco there to be spayed in the morning and we'll pick her up on Monday. Apparently she DOES have adult teeth and the vet thinks she's 7-8 months old. Her tummy is getting bigger and her appetite and thirst is impressive...and that made the vet suspicious of her being preggers. She did an ultrasound and if Coco is w/kittens, she is under 25 days gestation and the kitten's heartbeats aren't visible yet--thus the 'no time like the present!' mind frame to get her spayed. AND, she is FIV negative! Big YAY!! When we were exploring our options with the vet, she said that "and if she is FIV positive we recommend euthanasia." That was a nasty shock. I just can't get used to the idea of putting down a seemingly healthy creature. And Reg was FIV. Anyway, not a problem since she is negative.
Everyone that looked at her exclaimed at how cute she is. The vet said we'd gotten lucky with this one, that she's a Tortie point Siamese. I didn't even know they came as Tortoise points. She said that both Siamese and Torties are very...well, you know how Redheads are thought to be...Coco would be like a Redhead but double.
I'm sure she'll be fine, but I feel guilty about coaxing her over, grabbing her and putting her in the cage. I betrayed her. I'm sure I'm suffering about it more than her.
She weighed 5 pounds and 15 oz. When Abby went in for her first visit, she was 8 months and 6 pounds and 3 oz. And when I had her in the cage on the porch before I placed her in the car, both Buddy and Abby came by and peered in at her. No hisses. Buddy looked worried, "you should get out of there!" Abby was more like, "Bummer. See ya."
Everyone that looked at her exclaimed at how cute she is. The vet said we'd gotten lucky with this one, that she's a Tortie point Siamese. I didn't even know they came as Tortoise points. She said that both Siamese and Torties are very...well, you know how Redheads are thought to be...Coco would be like a Redhead but double.
I'm sure she'll be fine, but I feel guilty about coaxing her over, grabbing her and putting her in the cage. I betrayed her. I'm sure I'm suffering about it more than her.
She weighed 5 pounds and 15 oz. When Abby went in for her first visit, she was 8 months and 6 pounds and 3 oz. And when I had her in the cage on the porch before I placed her in the car, both Buddy and Abby came by and peered in at her. No hisses. Buddy looked worried, "you should get out of there!" Abby was more like, "Bummer. See ya."
