As most of you know, I'm adopting a half feral stray cat Well, any way, he went to his first vet visit yesterday. And here are the results. A fun, frivolous Saturday Morning diary. Join me below:
Here is the backstory on Snarkle and why he picked me.
Let me say right off the bat I'm a cat pootie fanatic. We have "adopted" several strays in the area and by "adopted", I mean we put food and water out for them. We have have had most of the males fixed, but there are still a couple of females that still need to have that done, and as you can imagine, there are litters born every year. Most don't survive, and the ones that do, we either give away or take to the humane society. Which brings me to Snarklepants, the reason for this blog. You see, he had a brother we named Marble and these 2 kittens seemed the healthiest of all the kittens we'd seen born and were going to make plans to slowly get them used to humans in hopes of adopting them out. But Marble's life was cut short by a car and I ended up having him euthanized. This left Snarklepants devastated. Between the time Marble was injured and I took him to the vet, Snarkle never left his side. Always licking his wounds and grooming him. Although he's still a bit skittish of me, I've been slowly getting him used to me. Today was a breakthrough. He let me hold and pet him and get close enough to take pics and videos. And now he even runs up to the car when I get home from work! So, here's His Majesty, Sir Snarklpants!
This went surprisingly well considering he's still a bit skittish. The day started with me trying to find a carrier at Walmart. There were only 3 pet carriers im the store and they were for dogs. And kind of blingee at that but I bought it anyway and it turns out it works much better than the hard plastic carriers. It was extremely easy to get him in and out of.
I get him in the carrier with no problem.
But as soon I started driving the meowing started, here's a vid of me driving with Snarkle whining in the backgroung. He's drowning out Science Friday on NPR!
Here's the waiting room:
Inside the examining room, this picture broke my heart!! He looks like he just got sentenced to life in prison!!
And here's some video of him on the examining room. He did really well:
This is after his examination and shots. He's grooming himself, so I know he wasn't too traumatized:
And the results were very good. He weighs 3.5 pounds, is about 12 weeks old. Negative for Feline Leukemia and HIV. No ear mites which is truly unusual for a cat that stays outside all the time. The doc showed me a spot on his tongue that indicated herpes/upper respiratory could be a factor later on, but I kind of figured that. Most strays do carry that disease. He did have round worm, but they gave me a pill to give to him. I'll wait until tomorrow. He's had enough stress for one day. And of course FLEAS! I'll treat him with Advantage multi tomorrow, but he really needs a flea bath. He goes back in three weeks for a booster vaccination and then we will schedule the neuter surgery and chip implant. I expected him to bound out of the carrier once I got him home and take off running, but he casually walked out kind of stuck around me for a while. The is the beginning of a beautiful relationship ^_^