Young cat in surgery tommrow, broken hip bones

Robert Casey

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Apr 25, 2001, 12:12:17 AM4/25/01

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A woman coworker rescured an 8 to 12 month old white with
brown tail kitten a week ago. He had been hit by a car. She
took him to the vet. Several operations to fix/set bones, one
tommrow to fix a broken pelvis/hip "socket and ball joint"
Appears that the ball is broken off its bone, and the vet will
remove the ball. According to the vet, cats can get along quite
well without this ball and socket joint in the back leg. Muscles are
tight in small animals, it is said. Saw this cat yesterday, nice purr
generator and love sponge. She has another cat, a big tortorie
brown/tan/white mix. She's moving into a house next week, she
hopes the two cats will get along as the new place is neither's
old territory.

The white cat appears to have been a stray for a while, as he
pigs out when fed, and he haden't been neutered until now.

jc

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Apr 25, 2001, 12:28:41 AM4/25/01

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Oh my. I will send my thoughts and healing prayers your way.
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Nanny

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Apr 25, 2001, 12:50:30 AM4/25/01

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One of my cats had this operation on both hips, in his case the balls were
just sort of melting from the bone, and he's come through these operations
very well. They stitch the tissue very tightly around the bone, and it heals
very well that way. It takes a few months and no jumping before they can
walk normally again, and I noticed that for the past months, 1 1/2 year
after the operation, Misty runs and jumps better than he ever did.

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Nanny

I don't suffer from insanity......I'm enjoying every minute of it!
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Dave Gerecke

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Apr 25, 2001, 6:05:12 AM4/25/01

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Robert Casey <wa2...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Best wishes and healing thoughts from here.
dave

WafflycatHCS

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Apr 25, 2001, 8:11:49 AM4/25/01

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Lots of prayers being said for the little white cat.

helen s

Karen

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Apr 25, 2001, 9:08:56 AM4/25/01

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in article 3AE64EA1...@ix.netcom.com, Robert Casey at
wa2...@ix.netcom.com wrote on 4/24/01 11:12 PM:

Blessings on your co-worker for giving a loving home to the kitty.

Purrs and Headbutts.

Karen

Julie Cook

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Apr 25, 2001, 11:00:30 AM4/25/01

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We'll keep White Cat in our thoughts and prayers and light a candle for
his safe recovery. Hobbes and Selena send headbutts and purrs as well.
Please tell your coworker that she is a special woman to have taken the
responsibility of this cat.

Julie, Hobbes and Selena

Gracecat

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Apr 25, 2001, 4:02:58 PM4/25/01

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"jc" <NoS...@nothanks.com> wrote in message
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Sorry to piggyback, I cleared some posts already.

You have my prayers and my sympathy, I'll keep a thought out for the little
guy.

Grace

maskvcat

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Apr 27, 2001, 12:25:59 AM4/27/01

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God bless your coworker for her concern and kindness to White Cat. Very
interesting about the femur head and neck and "tight musculature" - so
different from our own: guess if we were built and moved like cats fractures
like that wouldn't bother us much either!

--
Let's have a toast....with electricity

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: We'll keep White Cat in our thoughts and prayers and light a candle for

:

Robert Casey

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Apr 27, 2001, 1:46:51 AM4/27/01

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My coworker says thanks for everyones' prayers/headbutts.

Andrea Fuller

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May 3, 2001, 11:33:55 AM5/3/01

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In article <Wu6G6.944$w8.6...@news3.mia>, maskvcat
<mask...@bellsouth.net> writes

>God bless your coworker for her concern and kindness to White Cat. Very
>interesting about the femur head and neck and "tight musculature" - so
>different from our own: guess if we were built and moved like cats fractures
>like that wouldn't bother us much either!

Sending prayers and purrs to the white kitty. FWIW, I have two friends
with bilateral missing femur heads (the old hip prostheses were removed
and new ones unable to be fitted). This is very disabling in a human.
One friend is in a wheelchair 24/7 and the other uses a wheelchair and
can painfully hobble short distances. Called a "girdle stone" in humans
according one of the affected friends. I don't know how that name came
to be or if this is the same terminology with animals.
--
Andrea Fuller
Winchester, England
HEDS (VEDS overlay), FMS, OA, IBS, lumbar scoliosis, tinnitus, some hearing
loss, stomach problems, chronic depression, multiple allergies, asthma....
Please excuse any typos or odd phrases. I am talking to the Dragon.