OK, here's one Savvy story that I know you're all humoring me waiting for ....
So, the vet where we had Savvy declawed is not her first vet. Her first vet gave us a first wellness visit for free and a second follow-up visit at a discount. These people are extremely nice, but far from our home, and there is a nice vet close to our house, so it doesn't make sense for us not to see the vet close to our home, when price isn't a factor. Make sense so far?
So, the first vet (Dr. Place) tested Savvy's poop 7 ways till Sunday. Dewormed Savvy and gave me a follow up dosage, beyond what the SPCA already arranged. Plus, she gave Savvy one treatment of Revolution, and gave me 7 months of follow-up Revolution dosages. Revolution is to deworm and control fleas. So, AFAIK, Savvy is clean as a whistle.
We take Savvy in to get declawed with Dr. Eppl. Dr. Eppl says Savvy has a distended belly and he's worried that Savvy has worms and if we haven't already gotten her tested, we need to.
Mike is afraid that Dr. Place messed up. I'm not.
I'm afraid that Dr. Eppl just wants our money. It's almost $75 to test Savvy's poop, and I'd be glad to do it, if I hadn't JUST done it and already spent that money.
Mike now decides Savvy looks pregnant, and what if they screwed up her spaying.
I ask him, Please tell me how she's supposed to carry babies, when I'm pretty sure her uterus was taken out?
Mike is still not convinced.
Fast forward to a few days later.
When cats get declawed, they are supposed to use a litter called "yesterday's news" or use cut up newspapers as their litter. This is to prevent regular litter which is either sandy or crystal-like from getting into their sutures and infecting them. Well, smart Savvy began to eat her Yesterdays' News litter. Not the brightest cat. Not surprisingly, she refused to poo where she was eating.
Well, I'm working one Friday night. Mike is at home. He calls me at work, and he's clearly breathing through his mouth:
Jodie, where do we keep the Nature's Miracle?
I tell him and then ask hesitantly, why?
Apparently, Savvy was whining, and wanted to get to the regular litter. Mike picked her up and placed her in the Yesterday's News.
She didn't like that. Since we had the regular litter (for Alex) blocked off, and she didn't want to poo where she ate.... well, she did a major unloading on our den carpet in front of Mike.
He wanted the Nature's Miracle to help clean it up.
I told him that since a load of poo was conveniently in front of him that he himself should check it for worms since he didn't believe Dr. Place. I told him that I would gladly pay another $75 if he found evidence of worms.
So, he took a pen and started rifling through the mound of hot poo.
He said he didn't know what they looked like.
So, there I am at work, googling "cat poo + worms" on google images. Now, at work, I don't have a private cubicle. About 20 different people can easily see what I'm doing at all times. Who knows what they were thinking if they saw images on my monitors.
Picture me trying to describe what worms in cat poo look like.
He found something in her poo, washed it off, and felt the need to leave it for me. However, he ultimately determined that she ate part of his braided watch band and that since he couldn't slice through it and it was more "stringy" than "wormy" that it was in fact material, and not a worm.
I am half PUI so I hope that makes sense.....
