Snoof
09-08-2006, 12:17 PM
Choo-Choo got a bit upset when we were walking down the street towards the vet's, and meowed a lot. But as soon as we got there and his box was by my feet, not a peep. I checked, and stuck my hand in (it's one of those boxes with a flap on top to stick your hand through) and scritched him, to which he responded (amid a plethora of mentally barking dogs) by rolling onto his back :lol:
I got loads of comments on how relaxed he was, bless his little white socks. At one point he yawned and stretched, and his front paw came out of the cage as he stretched - cue a chorus of "Awwwwwww!" from the other people in the waiting room.
The vet's first words were - "He's supposed to be 18 months old?!" but when he checked (teeth in good condition :-D) he saw that he does have his adult teeth.
He has an inflammation/irritation of his skin because of how flea-riddled he is, so the vet gave him a steroid injection to calm that down. He told me it'll work really fast and Chookie (as i've taken to calling him :oops:) should be feeling a lot better in a couple of days at the absolute outside.
We're also in the process of worming, I brought up my concern that a whole dose of wormer might make him ill as I suspect he's had the worms most, if not all of his life, so he's had half the dose and will get the other half in a week (at which point I'll probably get meowed at quite angrily!).
I'll be getting some "before" pictures in the next couple of hours, then this afternoon I'm going to comb him thoroughly with a flea-comb (thank goodness I flea-treated the house a few weeks ago :roll:) and put frontline on him.
Then I'll just need to get the CPL voucher sorted (hopefully I'll get that sent off this afternoon) and he'll be neutered as soon as that comes in, provided his condition is good enough for it.
Yes, I know I should've made them take care of the neutering. But the man of the couple that had him previously is having health issues and claims he can't get the voucher sorted etc, between all the doctor's visits (funny how he can spend massive amounts of time in the pub :roll: :mad:). I was really worried about Choo-Choo Bear in the meantime, and they kept putting it off and putting it off so I rang CPL and asked them about their voucher scheme. The people who used to own him are giving me a tenner towards the rest of the cost, tomorrow. Otherwise they will face the wrath of their local's landlady who knows exactly what condition he's in and doesn't appreciate them for it at all.
The good news is that he's not been drooling massively on himself because he has bad teeth (yay!) but because of how miserable he's been because of the fleas. Hopefully I'll be able to get some pictures of him after he's been combed and frontlined - it depends on what time the boss gets here with his camera as mine is still on the fritz.
I was very impressed with his behaviour, anyway :-)
Oh, and somehow, magically, when given a clean littertray that's the correct size, he does use it without complaint :roll:
I got loads of comments on how relaxed he was, bless his little white socks. At one point he yawned and stretched, and his front paw came out of the cage as he stretched - cue a chorus of "Awwwwwww!" from the other people in the waiting room.
The vet's first words were - "He's supposed to be 18 months old?!" but when he checked (teeth in good condition :-D) he saw that he does have his adult teeth.
He has an inflammation/irritation of his skin because of how flea-riddled he is, so the vet gave him a steroid injection to calm that down. He told me it'll work really fast and Chookie (as i've taken to calling him :oops:) should be feeling a lot better in a couple of days at the absolute outside.
We're also in the process of worming, I brought up my concern that a whole dose of wormer might make him ill as I suspect he's had the worms most, if not all of his life, so he's had half the dose and will get the other half in a week (at which point I'll probably get meowed at quite angrily!).
I'll be getting some "before" pictures in the next couple of hours, then this afternoon I'm going to comb him thoroughly with a flea-comb (thank goodness I flea-treated the house a few weeks ago :roll:) and put frontline on him.
Then I'll just need to get the CPL voucher sorted (hopefully I'll get that sent off this afternoon) and he'll be neutered as soon as that comes in, provided his condition is good enough for it.
Yes, I know I should've made them take care of the neutering. But the man of the couple that had him previously is having health issues and claims he can't get the voucher sorted etc, between all the doctor's visits (funny how he can spend massive amounts of time in the pub :roll: :mad:). I was really worried about Choo-Choo Bear in the meantime, and they kept putting it off and putting it off so I rang CPL and asked them about their voucher scheme. The people who used to own him are giving me a tenner towards the rest of the cost, tomorrow. Otherwise they will face the wrath of their local's landlady who knows exactly what condition he's in and doesn't appreciate them for it at all.
The good news is that he's not been drooling massively on himself because he has bad teeth (yay!) but because of how miserable he's been because of the fleas. Hopefully I'll be able to get some pictures of him after he's been combed and frontlined - it depends on what time the boss gets here with his camera as mine is still on the fritz.
I was very impressed with his behaviour, anyway :-)
Oh, and somehow, magically, when given a clean littertray that's the correct size, he does use it without complaint :roll: