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- From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Neutering question
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 20:02:58 -0500
- Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
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- In-reply-to: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu's message of 17 Nov 1992 00:14:32 GMT
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- On the general subject of paying for veterinary care....
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- I've been favorably impressed by my vet's attitude about this. When I
- first found Nerfball the abandoned kitten this past summer, he had an
- injury to his front leg -- some kid had tied a rubberband around it,
- and it had cut through the skin and was all nasty and infected and
- swollen. The humane society people didn't even want to touch this cat
- (they said they had enough problems finding homes for healthy cats),
- but my vet was very sympathetic about it. He said that if I *really*
- wanted to spend the extra money, he would do the full business with
- suturing and all, but that he thought the wound would probably heal by
- itself within a few days if he just cut away the rubberband and
- cleaned out the gunk from the wound with antiseptic. Anyway, the nice
- thing was that he waived the fee for patching up the leg -- I ended up
- paying only for shots. And Nerfy did recover quickly and is a very
- healthy, big kitty now!
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- -Sandra
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