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11/20/2002 Archived Entry: "Black and white and loved all over"

YAY!! Pico-kitty is going to be alright!

Poor Pico was born with (or received shortly after birth) a number of holes in the muscles along his right side (hernias) which caused him all sorts of grief and pain. Originally the vet we took him to (who I did not like or trust) told us it was a basal cell cystic tumour and to watch it for a while. What would happen was that the lump on that grew and shrank on his side was actually his intestine poking through one of those holes and his feces getting trapped along the intruding part.

When we got back from getting married we found out that he'd been quite sick and it was obvious (to me) that he'd lost a bunch of weight although he had been eating fairly regularly. I decided that enough was enough and took him into the Guildford Animal Hospital where the very nice Dr. Grewal did some tests and determined that it wasn't feline leukemia, feline AIDS, or liver disease, and that everything was related to these hernias. Pico went into surgery yesterday and came out fine. We went and saw him today to bring him some of his favourite food (frozen shrimp - kitty popsicles) and visit with him for a bit. He ate like he was starving and I left a bunch of them with the staff there. He's got a 4-5 inch scar down his abdomen and a 2-3 inch scar on his side and is currently hooked up to an IV to rehydrate and medicate him. He's going to be fine, which makes me very happy. He's the sweetest little cat I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. I look forward to him getting all better and coming home.

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Did you know that playing with laser pointers with cats is patented and you may be violating that when you do that? Pure stupidity. I have a little laser pointer and Pico loves it, though he's been too sick to play much recently. Posted by Greg @ 11/21/2002 02:24 PM PST