Wonderful News About Starr!!!

[Logan]

What a Starr!!!!

Need I say more? Tracey, I hope everything will go well with the neutering/whatever!!! It's time for this boy to get to enjoy life, isn't it?

Logan

[kuhio98]

Star ~ I'm sure everything will go well. I'll be thinking of you....

[AmberLee]

Good luck Starr!!! We're rooting for YOU!

>^._.^< Cassy and
>^._.^< Livvy!!!

[DJFyrewolf36]

Yippie! I'm glad the Starr boy has a clean bill of health!


Hugs and headbumpies going out for you and Starr. Good thoughts on the way for an easy nuter!

[orangemm]

That is great news! Don't worry, Starr, you will be just fine. A little 'snip snip' and it will all be over.

Headbumpies and scritches from two guys!!

[CalliesMom]

Fantastic!! Do you think we could get some pictures now?

[Uabassoon]

I'm so happy to hear that Starr finally got a clean bill of health! I'm guessing you'll be picking him up from his sirjury soon. I hope he has a speedy recovery!

[RICHARD]

cryptorchidism-
Failure of one or both testicles to descend into the scrotum.

It's one word, Two Jingle Bells!

Med Terminiology is alot of 'put together' words.

Crypt is another word for tomb or means buried.
Orchids are....uh.......well...Something that goes in a corsage???

[Soapets]

It's so wonderful to hear that he has a clean bill of health now! The surgery tomorrow will add a little more $$ to the "bill" of health, but once that's over with he should be all set to live a long, happy, full, fun life! We'll be thinking of you tomorrow Starr, and we know you'll be a brave boy. This will be a "piece of cake" compared to what all else you've been through!

Deb

[krazyaboutkatz]

Thanks for all of your concerns and nice comments. Starr's surgery went very well. One of his testicles had actually already descended so it wasn't as difficult a surgery as the doctor had thought. The other one was way up inside of him beyond his tummy. He now has a blue fabric e-collar, a shaved tummy, and lots of blue stitches. He's on clavamox 2 times a day for the next 7 days and rimadyl 1/4 of a pill 1 time a day for pain for the next 8 days.

He was the last surgery of the day so he wasn't operated on until around 2pm or so. I picked him up a little bit before 7pm and he's still very groggy and tired. I was also told to start him on both pills tonight. He just wants to sleep and he's also been purring very loudly. I'm sure he'll be hungry and thirsty tomorrow morning. His brothers and sister were all very interested in seeing him. Storm thought he smelled bad so he started hissing at him.

I have him in a large dog crate and I'm hoping to be able keep him confined in here as long as possible. He goes back on Sat. Oct.15th to have his stitches removed. I hope that he'll heal quickly and won't have any complications. Here are two pictures that I took of him tonight. He felt more comfortable lying in his litterbox than in the small bed that I put in the cage for him. I also tried to take a picture of stitches but if didn't turn out very clearly.

[gini]

Oh Tracey, bless his heart........I hope that all went well and he will soon be home and acting like the true kitten that he is.

My Sugar (first cat that owned me) also had testicles that had not dropped.
But he was with me for over 18 years.

He did father a litter at the request of a good friend. Sugar was all white with blue eyes - and her cat was all white with gold eyes. She had five kittens............four all pure white - and one dark tabby. I always wish that I had been able to keep the tabby, but I was pushing it by even having a cat in my apartment in the first place.

[K & L]

Bless his heart! Glad all went well and Starr is now a happy healthy cat! Great work Tracey!!

[sasvermont]

What a sweet photo. He looks resigned to staying putt!

I hope his recovery is quick and effortless for you. I also hope he cooperates with you when you try to pill him!

((((((((((((((((Starr)))))))))))))))))))))



P. S.

This is a post from about 6 months ago....about the soft blue collar my cat Lucy had to wear after her spaying....

"Lucy, the little black barn cat sailed right through her spaying. She has totally recovered and is as sweet as usual. She did do one really funny thing though. After a few days of wearing the ecollar (soft blue one......because she put her front right paw through the neck of the hard plastic one, along with her neck!!!) she seemed to be fine without the ecollar so I took it off and placed it on the coffee table. A couple of nights after I removed the collar, she got up on the table, put her furry head into the opening of the ecollar (soft one) and put the darn thing back on, all by herself. She walked around as proud as could be for about an hour. It fell off in the kitchen. She didn't repeat this, so I figure it was by accident. What a little goof ball."

[Randi]

Tracey, what a relief that the surgery went well. I hope he'll heal fast and be back to normal in no time.

He looks so sweet there in his litterbox.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Awww....poor little guy...looks absolutely beat after such an ordeal. I do find it interesting how cats like to sleep in their litterboxes - what's up with that?

Soft smoochies to Starr. Here's hoping he's feeling much better today and the healing goes well and it's all a bad memory real soon.

I don't remember....is Lily spayed already? Hope so because it seems like you've just been spending way too much time at the vet's lately, Tracey. Here's hoping everything goes well with Starr and your whole crew stays healthy for awhile - just to give you a break from worrying about them all the time.