On Sun 14 Jan 2007 12:01:21p, Lynne wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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Levi is scheduled to be neutered on Wednesday, but I may
post-pone. He's had an outbreak today (sneezing and coughing
and watery eyes) and I want to wait until he's as healthy as
possible. I realize neutering is not a big deal procedure, but
I know that the stress will be hard on his little body. OTOH,
he's probably going to have an outbreak with the surgery anyway,
so should I go forward?

Also, should Levi be put on a full course of antibiotics after
the surgery as a prophylactic? He hasn't been on them in quite
a few months, so he's not at risk of over doing with them.

I'm currently on a vet-go-round. I thought I had found a new
vet, but he turned out to be a complete turd. His facility is
so disorganized and dirty that there is no way I would allow a
pet of mine to have surgery there. Right now I'm back to using
my old vet, who is no help whatsoever with these questions, but
he did do a good job with Rudy's neutering.


Lynne, if you feel like you should postpone, go with your gut
feeling about the FHV. My two youngest, Rhett and Scarlett, are
now about 2-1/2 years old now, but when I first adopted them, they
had horrible recurring FHV and passed it back and forth to each
other to the point I thought it would never go away. The guy that
found them found a litter of four and wanted to keep them together
until they were 12 weeks old, but the FHV passing around made him
change his mind, and I got them at 9 weeks. They went through many
different types of medications including eye ointments both with
steroids and without. Depended on how severe, and if there was
something funny when the eyes were fluresced (sp!!).

I intended to have them done at no more than 3 months old, but
their health delayed that. Rhett got over the FHV sooner, and was
neutered at about 4 months, but Scarlett had an appt for the same
day, but hers was delayed another month. She had gotten so thin
because she didn't want to eat, and I had to hand-feed her.
Despite her health, she actually went into heat before she was
spayed at 5 months. It was hard, but I'm glad we waited. She was in
no shape for surgery. She had a hard time recovering as it was,
and had a nasty reaction to her internal sutures.

--
Cheryl