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Is her belly still distended? Is her appetite back? Glad she is doing okay, tho.

Poor kitty…give her some tuna…

One reason why I don’t have more pets is the vet bills. I hope Charlotte has more good years in her!

Do cats fart?

Feel better Charlotte. I’m afeared to take my girls in, even for the simplest things I don’t walk out without it being over 300 bucks. God forbid they ever get really sick!

Damn right they do, furry little stinkers.

I’m taking our boy Eli in for a dental bright and early in the morning. $603 projected in SoCal money. My wife is insisting, so there you have it.

Growing up my daughter pined for a pet, a real pet, mammal, four legs and fur. I compromised and she got a red eared slider that stayed in a converted aquarium. Then ‘Sheldon’ got sick… a gross red thing was sticking out of his shell in the rear. She and I took her to the reptile vet. Sheldon had a prolapsed rectum…common in wild turtles riddled with parasites. The Vet came out and in the best bed side manner said he would do everything he could to save him. As I was writing the check for the visit my five year old was sniffing back tears in the waiting room. I asked the nurse straightforwardly, “So what’s going to really happen?” She didn’t mince words. “We’ll try to push his anus back inside his shell but the chances are slim he’ll survive.” “If it doesn’t work we’ll put him in the freezer.” “Do you want him back?”
I couldn’t write that $120 check fast enough….

I have one of those vets! he’s awesome.
But, sometimes the critters get sick off hours, and they go the the all-night vet. Last time we took Small Dog One to such a place, I had awesome country vet check her next day, in normal business hours.
He said, “They took X-RAYS? For DIARRHEA??”
I said, “Well…it sounds so stupid when YOU say it.”

Glad Charlotte is OK.

Prices like 70 GBP or 600 USD was the kind of prices we used to pay for human hospital care. Look at some of the old novels from the Thirties to the Sixties, John D. MacDonald and other people. The hero would get banged up, then pay his $150-200 for an overnight stay in the hospital, and limp back to his life.

My cats were recently given some de-wormer medicine that I picked up from the vet. The symptoms of worms can include a swollen belly and if it is a former feral cat and/or spends time outside might be a good idea to get medicine for that once in a while.

Wolfus: My sisters were both born in the middle-late ’50s. Both by C-section. Same hospital in NJ near Philly.

Two years apart, but deliveries & stay for our mom came to $750 per. That was a lot of money then, though. Our mom was making around 300/month as a lab tech, so that’s 2 1/2 month’s pay. I forget what my dad was making then.

First thing I thought of, Stephen. Despite having had all her teeth removed over the years, she still kills and eats mice. Don’t ask how, I guarantee the details are disgusting. I tried a dewormer on her a few days before we took her in.