catwoman-update on honeybunny

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Registered: 05-06-2004
catwoman-update on honeybunny
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Mon, 01-03-2005 - 8:55pm
The vet said today the kitty would need cortisone shots the rest of her life. I've heard they aren't safe. Anyway, the vet said to give the kitty up to two months to get better or maybe some tissue will develop to help the cat or something. She said it is traumatic subluxation of hip. FHO would later on be a possibility and then she said some vets would do the surgery now and not wait a couple of months to see how the kitty is. Is waiting cruel to the cat or is this a wait and see problem? Honeybunny is only walking a foot or so before she lays down, I am carrying her to the litter box. Her back leg is bad. The vet said it might be better in a week from the cortisone. I do have another vet I use who could give me a second opinion. He was going to do the hip dysp. surgery on my dog if she started having trouble. He would probally operate quicker than the other vet. What do you think? Will giving the cat (10 mos or so old) a couple of months be making her suffer or ??? Thanks. Donna
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Tue, 01-04-2005 - 7:21am

If HoneyBunny were mine, I would get the second opinion.

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Tue, 01-04-2005 - 12:19pm

Poor Honeybunny.


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Tue, 01-04-2005 - 12:35pm
The dogs surgery sounds like FHO surgery. It takes away the pain and the cat adjusts, may have a limp. I don't know and can't afford a specialist but two local vets here can do the surgery. One wants the cat to go through 8 weeks of ??? and the other hasn't seen her but he would probally do the surgery quickly. I am going to see him between Thurs. and next Monday, with or without the cat for a talk. I think the surgery is under $300. I plan on putting her on a ghucosamine supplement. This vet I am going to go see has my dog on supplements and they are controlling her pain (she has hip dysp., is two yrs. old). Honey bunny is getting around more today, but it has to be painful. The vet who saw her doesn't like to use many pain meds, says a cats liver can't handle them. Donna