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Old February 22nd 04, 07:18 AM
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On 21 Feb 2004 23:09:26 GMT, (RedRiver35) wrote:

Fan:

In our area the ASPCA is a separate entity from the city-run shelter. The city
took over, or it was sold to them, I don't know which or why, about 7 years
ago.

They did tell me to take the cat to my vet, but I got him at 6 pm on a
Saturday. We thought he was depressed and not eating -- he had been there 3
weeks -- we realized 28 hours later that he had positively green ropes of mucus
sneezed out of his nose. This, after we had specifically asked about URI. We
took him to the emergency vet immediately, he spent the night there and we took
him to our own vet in the morning.

It was the next day before our vet could reach anyone at the ASPCA who could
tell us more about what was going on.

Somewhere along the line, someone told us that he had developed FIP because a
corona virus had been mutated by stress. I have never seen FIP before in "real
life". It is partly their fault for not taking care of him the way they should
have and partly my falt for not taking home sooner. than 3 weeks, but I had
other cats at home and therefore figured I would be the last resort (hoping
someone else would adopt him first). I'll not did not make that mistake with
the next one.

I would not have even considered taking him back because he was sick -- you
don't send your kids back because they get sick -- but, we did know that he
was on subq fluids when we got him, we waited 20 minues for a bag to run in.
But again, we just thought he was depressed and not eating, we thought we could
nurse him back to health. I did, however, get a coupon for another kitty.

Fortunately through all this, I had enough sense to keep him isolated from my
other cats until I got an okay from our vet that he could go in the the other
kitties.

I should have taken him home sooner, I did not know that the place up there
only had a part time vet. I always get kicked in the pants when I rely on
someone else to do what they are actually supposed to do, and this cat died for
it.

This is a truely sad story and I am sorry for both you and the poor
cat. I'm glad they gave you a certificate, but it certainly doesn't
erase the pain that this caused. It sounds like you did all that you
could under these trying circumstances and you shouldn't be hard on
yourself. These things happen.

I hope the people at the shelter learned something from it. Perhaps it
is just becuase these things can be hard to diagnose and there is
nothing more that could have done to prevent it. If there is anything
that they could do, I certainly hope this will be a wake-up call for
them.


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