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here we go again ::sigh::
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:59:14 +0000 (UTC), "Helen Miles"
wrote: The final scab has fallen off Lilly-Whiskers tail where it was cut by the ******* that tortured her, and it appears that the very end of the tail bone is exposed. I have a feeling that when she sees the vet tomorrow afternoon, he's going to recommend partial tail amputation. Please purr for a positive outcome. It's one thing after another with this little one, and she's already been through so much. ( Ta muchly Helen M Fortunately, that is fairly minor surgery and should heal quickly. I lived in the dormitory at Belmont College (now Belmont University) in Nashville, TN during my sophomore year, and noticed a cute stray kitten that various students were feeding. A few days later, I saw the same kitten again; she was limping, and most of her tail was blackened and hairless. I thought that someone had burned her, and called my parents, who took her to an after-hours vetinary hospital for surgery. It turned out that, rather than being burned, her tail and the inside of one thigh had been slashed, probably by a car fan. The vet had to amputate most of her tail due to gangrene, which had caused the blackened appearance. My parents adopted her and named her Tinkerbelle. She walked rather stiffly for several months, but eventually regained her full hoolikitten agility, including climbing to the top of the drapes numerous times. She had a tail-stump about one inch long. The end of the stump remained hairless, but otherwise made a full recovery. My parents let Tinkerbelle have one litter of kittens before having her spayed, and the next-door neighbors were amazed that the kittens had full-length tails, despite knowing that their mother had lost hers to an accident. They told me several times that they had thought that injuries to the parent animal would be inherited by the offspring. Of course, these were the same people who bought supermarket tabloids each week and believed everything they read. The neighbor lady once said to me, "Of course it's all true! Why would they print anything false?". -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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here we go again ::sigh::
"Helen Miles" wrote in message
news:e95a4fb07f3f21c0162e236d27e49ef0.76411@mygate .mailgate.org... The final scab has fallen off Lilly-Whiskers tail where it was cut by the ******* that tortured her, and it appears that the very end of the tail bone is exposed. I have a feeling that when she sees the vet tomorrow afternoon, he's going to recommend partial tail amputation. Please purr for a positive outcome. It's one thing after another with this little one, and she's already been through so much. ( Ta muchly Helen M Purrs for L-W on the way across the pond. Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe |
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here we go again ::sigh::
In message lgate.org,
Helen Miles writes The final scab has fallen off Lilly-Whiskers tail where it was cut by the ******* that tortured her, and it appears that the very end of the tail bone is exposed. I have a feeling that when she sees the vet tomorrow afternoon, he's going to recommend partial tail amputation. Purrs from all the felines here. Purdey (RB) had to have about two-thirds of his tail amputated after a brush with a car - on the face of it, the tail was just nicked, but the bone was actually broken so the vet took it off at the break closest to the body. The stump was very expressive for the rest of his life (about nineteen years), and apart from its obvious shortness, the only sign of anything wrong was the fact that there were a number of white hairs at the injury site. -- Cathi |
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