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#1 Jan 12 2011 at 11:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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Cupcake is still hanging on and it looks like I eulogized her early. I feel like a newspaper publisher that bet on the wrong headline now.

After speaking with the vet (and a few other people) and watching her scamper across the living room floor last night (what that cat won't do for an unagi roll), the nerve damage doesn't seem as bad as it was thought. The vet feels so bad about this that she's capping the surgery (if we choose to do so) at $1,000. We've already put out a few hundred on the X-Rays and other stuff yesterday.

So Friday morning, Cupcake is going to have an exploratory surgery that will result in her leg being amputated if the vet finds that the nerve damage isn't as bad as we all thought. If the nerve damage and whatever other damage the vet finds is too extensive, Cupcake will be immediately be put to sleep right then and there.

So I'm hanging on a bit of hope right now. She's comfortable, purring and I left the TV on so she can watch re-runs of Teen Mom.

Thanks to everyone for all the e-hugs and thoughts yesterday. I really appreciate it. Smiley: flowers
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#2 Jan 12 2011 at 11:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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You can get her a peg leg.
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#4 Jan 12 2011 at 12:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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lolgaxe wrote:
You can get her a peg leg.


Wouldn't chopstick ones be better?
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#5 Jan 12 2011 at 12:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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Here is something to help you kill time till Friday.

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#7 Jan 12 2011 at 4:15 PM Rating: Good
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Smiley: lol You guys slay me.

We're just very lucky that we have a vet that is willing to work with us on this.
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I missed the thread yesterday, but glad to hear there could be a light at the end of the tunnel!

Let's hope it's not a train.
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Cats are very relizant animals. I've had two with dislocated rear hips from being hit by cars.
I just could not afford the operation. Yet both lived happy full lives. Have faith your cat may
do fine.
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One of our cats had been wasting away to nothing and was throwing up anything it did eat. He was lazing around far more than usual and rarely moved from his spot in the kitchen, unless if was to follow the kids around and beg for any of their food, regardless fo what they were eating. We expected to wake up and find him dead. I finally convinced the fiancee to take him to the vet and it turns out, he has an overactive thyroid and it's making him feel constantly starved, so he gorges on everything. We've put him on medication and the vet expects him to live a minimum of 3-5 more years, putting him over 20.
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Tailmon wrote:
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Whoa.


Indeed.

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Tailmon wrote:
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So, we picked up the cat on Friday and this cat was loopier on the pain meds than Charlie Sheen could ever be with 3 **** stars. Leg is gone, she has an incision that's about 7 inches long and stitched up in a way that makes her look like a Frankencat. She one of those Elizabethan collars that makes her look like a satellite dish.

12 hours after we picked her up, this cat made a flying leap off our couch and flopped her way up the stairs to the bedroom. She went faster than I was able to react. Frankly, I sat there for a good 10 seconds in shock that she had that kind of energy. She looked like a baby seal. She's still trying to figure out how to walk on 3 weeks and she keeps tipping forward when she tries to walk. She would faceplant into the carpet if the collar wasn't in the way.

Anyways, she's doing great. Sees the vet again in 2 weeks for a check up and to take the stitches out.

I'll post pictures once the stitches are out, the E-collar is gone and her fur starts growing back in.
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Can't she get one of those wheely-things? I knew a pug without hind legs that had those once.

But yay for the successful surgery!
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Can't she get one of those wheely-things? I knew a pug without hind legs that had those once.

But yay for the successful surgery!
I don't think that works for 1 leg, and cats tend to climb on stuff so wheels aren't very practical for them.
I've seen some documentary on discovery channel or some similar channel where they gave a cat who lost both it's hind legs sort of peg legs with rubber endings that allowed the cat to walk and run around close to normal. Although I think that was rather experimental and very expensive.
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Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
So, we picked up the cat on Friday and this cat was loopier on the pain meds than Charlie Sheen could ever be with 3 **** stars. Leg is gone, she has an incision that's about 7 inches long and stitched up in a way that makes her look like a Frankencat. She one of those Elizabethan collars that makes her look like a satellite dish.

12 hours after we picked her up, this cat made a flying leap off our couch and flopped her way up the stairs to the bedroom. She went faster than I was able to react. Frankly, I sat there for a good 10 seconds in shock that she had that kind of energy. She looked like a baby seal. She's still trying to figure out how to walk on 3 weeks and she keeps tipping forward when she tries to walk. She would faceplant into the carpet if the collar wasn't in the way.

Anyways, she's doing great. Sees the vet again in 2 weeks for a check up and to take the stitches out.

I'll post pictures once the stitches are out, the E-collar is gone and her fur starts growing back in.


Did it look anything like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvUHW8Yl3lQ
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Smiley: lol That video is HIGHlarious.

This cat used to do absolutely nothing when she had 4 legs except lay there and purr. Now that she's got 3 legs, she's decided that she's Magellan and she needs to explore. Since we've brought her home, she's gone up and down the stairs countless times, checked out what's underneath all the beds, decided that a bathtub with a bit of water would be a great place to chill (and she still has stiches for another week and a half), and the vaccuum is her own personal vibrator.

Today is the last day she is on her pain meds so I'm hoping that all her shenanigans were because she was stoned.
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Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
Smiley: lol That video is HIGHlarious.

This cat used to do absolutely nothing when she had 4 legs except lay there and purr. Now that she's got 3 legs, she's decided that she's Magellan and she needs to explore. Since we've brought her home, she's gone up and down the stairs countless times, checked out what's underneath all the beds, decided that a bathtub with a bit of water would be a great place to chill (and she still has stiches for another week and a half), and the vaccuum is her own personal vibrator.

Today is the last day she is on her pain meds so I'm hoping that all her shenanigans were because she was stoned.


Hopefully she wasn't going through her bucket list.
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I think my cat is going through a mid-life crisis or something (he's 11 or so now). He has decides that the bathroom is his new favorite spot to run to randomly throughout the day/night. Any noise he hears, or thinks he hears, sends him running into the bathroom. There is a small hole behind the bathtub that isn't sealed up yet (we are remodeling and it is going to be a linen closet thing). So the back of the fiberglass tub is open, and there is a tunnel going around the tub. He'll sneak in there, walk around a few times, go back out to the living room and flop down in the middle of the room and lay there until the next noise. The first couple times he went through the underbelly of the tub he came out covered in dust and cobwebs. He's like a living duster.

If anyone closes the bathroom door he freaks out and starts knocking at the door with his paw until it's opened. (unless he's dead asleep, then nothing will wake him up except a pretty constant poking).
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
Smiley: lol That video is HIGHlarious.

This cat used to do absolutely nothing when she had 4 legs except lay there and purr. Now that she's got 3 legs, she's decided that she's Magellan and she needs to explore. Since we've brought her home, she's gone up and down the stairs countless times, checked out what's underneath all the beds, decided that a bathtub with a bit of water would be a great place to chill (and she still has stiches for another week and a half), and the vaccuum is her own personal vibrator.

Today is the last day she is on her pain meds so I'm hoping that all her shenanigans were because she was stoned.


Hopefully she wasn't going through her bucket list.


I wonder if receiving a cat shirt from Sogoro is on there?

Hey Thumb, I'm gonna look for a hat or something for your cat.
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TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
I think my cat is going through a mid-life crisis or something (he's 11 or so now). He has decides that the bathroom is his new favorite spot to run to randomly throughout the day/night. Any noise he hears, or thinks he hears, sends him running into the bathroom. There is a small hole behind the bathtub that isn't sealed up yet (we are remodeling and it is going to be a linen closet thing). So the back of the fiberglass tub is open, and there is a tunnel going around the tub. He'll sneak in there, walk around a few times, go back out to the living room and flop down in the middle of the room and lay there until the next noise. The first couple times he went through the underbelly of the tub he came out covered in dust and cobwebs. He's like a living duster.

If anyone closes the bathroom door he freaks out and starts knocking at the door with his paw until it's opened. (unless he's dead asleep, then nothing will wake him up except a pretty constant poking).


Sounds like you have ghosts.
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TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
I think my cat is going through a mid-life crisis or something (he's 11 or so now). He has decides that the bathroom is his new favorite spot to run to randomly throughout the day/night. Any noise he hears, or thinks he hears, sends him running into the bathroom. There is a small hole behind the bathtub that isn't sealed up yet (we are remodeling and it is going to be a linen closet thing). So the back of the fiberglass tub is open, and there is a tunnel going around the tub. He'll sneak in there, walk around a few times, go back out to the living room and flop down in the middle of the room and lay there until the next noise. The first couple times he went through the underbelly of the tub he came out covered in dust and cobwebs. He's like a living duster.

If anyone closes the bathroom door he freaks out and starts knocking at the door with his paw until it's opened. (unless he's dead asleep, then nothing will wake him up except a pretty constant poking).


Sounds like you have ghosts.


It's the ghosts of your cat's previous lives, they've come back for revenge!
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I love good a cat story with a happy ending *Tear drop* i want cats again ; ;.
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