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Emily's latest vet visit
Emily's a rare cat. Since kittenhood she's actually enjoyed visiting the
vet. She likes all the shiny bottles and vials on the counter just out of her reach; and she likes all the attention. But this created a problem during today's visit. She began to purr. She purred when the vet pried open her mouth to check her teeth. She purred when he examined her from tip to tail. She even purred when he gave her two hypodermic syringes of serum. But when he tried to hear her heart with the stethoscope, all he got was a deep rumble. We tried everything to stop Emily purring. Finally we stood her on her hind legs, and this confused her just long enough for the doctor to hear her heartbeat before the rumble resumed. Dear little Emily - she always finds some way to complicate things! |
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Moxie sometimes purrs at the vet's, too. He says it's because she's
nervous. Makes it hard to check her heart. Silly girls! Katz |
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"Bobcat" wrote in message
... Emily's a rare cat. Since kittenhood she's actually enjoyed visiting the vet. She likes all the shiny bottles and vials on the counter just out of her reach; and she likes all the attention. But this created a problem during today's visit. She began to purr. She purred when the vet pried open her mouth to check her teeth. She purred when he examined her from tip to tail. She even purred when he gave her two hypodermic syringes of serum. But when he tried to hear her heart with the stethoscope, all he got was a deep rumble. We tried everything to stop Emily purring. Finally we stood her on her hind legs, and this confused her just long enough for the doctor to hear her heartbeat before the rumble resumed. Dear little Emily - she always finds some way to complicate things! AAAWWWWWW! Even though it "complicates" hearing her heartbeat, I bet the vet still would rather examine her than a hissy/spitty/bitey/scratchy cat (like my Bandit! ;). Hugs, catNipped |
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CatNipped wrote:
"Bobcat" wrote in message ... Emily's a rare cat. Since kittenhood she's actually enjoyed visiting the vet. She likes all the shiny bottles and vials on the counter just out of her reach; and she likes all the attention. But this created a problem during today's visit. She began to purr. She purred when the vet pried open her mouth to check her teeth. She purred when he examined her from tip to tail. She even purred when he gave her two hypodermic syringes of serum. But when he tried to hear her heart with the stethoscope, all he got was a deep rumble. We tried everything to stop Emily purring. Finally we stood her on her hind legs, and this confused her just long enough for the doctor to hear her heartbeat before the rumble resumed. Dear little Emily - she always finds some way to complicate things! AAAWWWWWW! Even though it "complicates" hearing her heartbeat, I bet the vet still would rather examine her than a hissy/spitty/bitey/scratchy cat (like my Bandit! ;). Hugs, catNipped Persia gets so scared at the vet she sticks her head under the vet tech's armpit. It's like she thinks if we can't see her head she's not really there! LOL Cats DO purr (usually more loudly) to attempt to calm themselves down in stressful situations. Jill |
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jmcquown wrote:
Persia gets so scared at the vet she sticks her head under the vet tech's armpit. It's like she thinks if we can't see her head she's not really there! LOL Several of my cats have been known to put their heads in my armpit while at the vet's. LOL. "Mommy, help!" |
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jmcquown shouted to everyone in earshot, Cats DO purr (usually more loudly) to attempt to calm themselves down in stressful situations. Ahh, maybe that would explain Buck's purring as/after I gave her a nice, wet bath when my cousins delivered her (and Grizzly) to my house. Heh, this thread made me remember one of Buck's vet visits... after the tech weighed her and left the room, she was sitting on the scale looking utterly terrified, so I went to pick her up, and she just about took the scale with her (and she's not big at all). She calmed down quite a bit by the time the vet was done with her, though. Back then, she was scared of just about everybody she didn't know, regardless of setting, but as the vet was writing on the charts, she first peered up onto the exam counter (where he was writing) from the bench beside it and then actually hopped up there and asked him for scritches. Jeff |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
... CatNipped wrote: "Bobcat" wrote in message ... Emily's a rare cat. Since kittenhood she's actually enjoyed visiting the vet. She likes all the shiny bottles and vials on the counter just out of her reach; and she likes all the attention. But this created a problem during today's visit. She began to purr. She purred when the vet pried open her mouth to check her teeth. She purred when he examined her from tip to tail. She even purred when he gave her two hypodermic syringes of serum. But when he tried to hear her heart with the stethoscope, all he got was a deep rumble. We tried everything to stop Emily purring. Finally we stood her on her hind legs, and this confused her just long enough for the doctor to hear her heartbeat before the rumble resumed. Dear little Emily - she always finds some way to complicate things! AAAWWWWWW! Even though it "complicates" hearing her heartbeat, I bet the vet still would rather examine her than a hissy/spitty/bitey/scratchy cat (like my Bandit! ;). Hugs, catNipped Persia gets so scared at the vet she sticks her head under the vet tech's armpit. It's like she thinks if we can't see her head she's not really there! LOL Cats DO purr (usually more loudly) to attempt to calm themselves down in stressful situations. Jill AAWWWW poor baby! But that's so cute! Hugs, CatNipped |
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On 2005-02-17, Katz penned:
Several of my cats have been known to put their heads in my armpit while at the vet's. LOL. "Mommy, help!" The vet office is the only place where I am allowed to hold Oscar for more than 0.2 picoseconds. In fact, it's getting her to let *go* of me that's the problem. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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"Bobcat" wrote in message ... Emily's a rare cat. Since kittenhood she's actually enjoyed visiting the vet. She likes all the shiny bottles and vials on the counter just out of her reach; and she likes all the attention. But this created a problem during today's visit. She began to purr. She purred when the vet pried open her mouth to check her teeth. She purred when he examined her from tip to tail. She even purred when he gave her two hypodermic syringes of serum. But when he tried to hear her heart with the stethoscope, all he got was a deep rumble. We tried everything to stop Emily purring. Finally we stood her on her hind legs, and this confused her just long enough for the doctor to hear her heartbeat before the rumble resumed. Dear little Emily - she always finds some way to complicate things! Our Smokey Lo-o-oves his vet. Loud, rumbly purrs start as soon as he gets into the office and don't stop until we leave. He's always anxious to get into the office and doesn't want to leave. Doesn't matter what the vet does to him, he's all purrs. |
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[[Emily's a rare cat. Since kittenhood she's actually enjoyed visiting the
vet. She likes all the shiny bottles and vials on the counter just out of her reach; and she likes all the attention. But this created a problem during today's visit. She began to purr. She purred when the vet pried open her mouth to check her teeth. She purred when he examined her from tip to tail. She even purred when he gave her two hypodermic syringes of serum. But when he tried to hear her heart with the stethoscope, all he got was a deep rumble. We tried everything to stop Emily purring. Finally we stood her on her hind legs, and this confused her just long enough for the doctor to hear her heartbeat before the rumble resumed. Dear little Emily - she always finds some way to complicate things! ]] LOL! Melody (RB) did exactly the same thing, the first time I brought her and Harmony (also RB) to the vet. They were kittens and this was my required "bring the cats to the vet after adopting them from the shelter" vet appointment. From the moment the checkup began, Melody purred her little fuzzy head off, which was fine until it was time to check her heartbeat. NOTHING got her to stop purring. The vet covered her eyes abruptly. PURRRR. He blew air in the cat's face. PURRRR. He picked her up under her front legs only, so that her hind legs were dangling just above the tabletop. PURRRR. He finally had to give up on hearing her heartbeat. She was purring way too loudly for him to hear anything. Any cat who can purr that vigorously for that long must have a healthy heart, anyway. Harmony, meanwhile, was fine when it came time to check her heartbeat. Her TEMPERATURE, however, was another story. This was 1990, and they were still using glass thermometers at the time. The instant that thermometer went in, Harmony let out a screech fit to shatter every piece of glass within a three-block radius. I can only imagine how long it took the owners of pets in the waiting room to pry said pets off the ceiling after Harmony produced that noise. Needless to say, out came the thermometer at once. So much for taking Harmony's temperature. No cat with the amount of energy it took to protest that vigorously could possibly be running a fever, anyway. So the end result was that I had one kitten with no heartbeat and one with no temperature, but both received a clean bill of health. ) Donna, and the kitties whose first vet visit went MUCH more smoothly, Captain and Stanley |
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