Prognosis For MT Is Not Good (2007-07-20)
Although summer is not the high season for Cat Flu, the plan is to have MT vaccinated now so she is protected from the deadly disease.
The trip to the vet is a dramatic one first with MT fighting me with
all claws and teeth putting her inside the carrying bag, then with her
freaking out at the clinic and peeing all over the bag which the towel
inside did no good soaking up the stinky urine. The pee leaked
all over the floor and I had to clean it up with tissues and
disinfectant.
Inside the examination room, she calmed down a bit but the vet still
had to employ the towel-over-body method to keep her razor sharp claws
from tearing into people's flesh. The vet gave her a general
examination
without incident and then he took blood from her to check if she was a
Feline Leukemia virus carrier, thus determining the kind of vaccination
she needed.
The little machine took ten minutes to register the POSITIVE
result. "Oh... not good", I thought to myself. The vet
explained what the result meant and her prognosis which I kinda don't
fully understand. The bottomline is MT has a very deadly virus in
her which can make her very sick and kills her quickly. The vet
says cats with this virus usually don't live very long which is really
sad for MT 'cause we like her a lot.
At the end MT got the most vaccination she could benefit from including Cat
Flu. If she dies from Feline Leukemia in the future, I'd feel a
little less guilty knowing what killed her isn't Tabibito negligence,
but nature's cruelty.
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