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lost our barn cat today

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rick1

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Wife took him to the vet today to get him fixed but died after he came out of surgery from being put under doc said that's 3 cats in seven years to die that way and all were stray tom cats
 
There must be a cheaper way to get rid of them than pay a vet to screw up. (the cat I mean) lol
 
(quoted from post at 16:11:00 04/30/14)
Wife took him to the vet today to get him fixed but died after he came out of surgery from being put under doc said that's 3 cats in seven years to die that way and all were stray tom cats
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I had a female and male fixed several years back, the male ran away 2 days after I got him home.
 
we probably would have let him alone but we have three female outside cats that are also fixed and he was always stalking them and beaten em up i guess because they would not give him any lovein.but he had a good life here on the farm.he showed up a couple winters ago on a snowy cold morning.
RICK
 
Sorry hear it.

Years back bought two dogs from the pound as a pair. Bought the biggest, ugliest dogs they had because they only kept them 10 days, then uthenized them. So, I got the two that I figured had the least chance or making it. The pound required that they be spayed or nutered. OK, I paid them, they told me I could pick them up in a couple of days after they got fixed. I went back after a couple of days to pick them up, but he lived, she died during spaying. The vet there said it was bound to happen, she had a weak heart. "Weak heart", I asked. She replied, "Yes, didn't you notice how pink her gums were when you bought her?".

Well, he turned out to be a great dog just the same.

Mark
 

I also vote for a different vet. I have had a lot of critters spayed and neutered over the years and not a one died from it.
 
Sorry about your cat.

I'm not so sure I'd be worried about finding another vet if you are happy with the one you have. Animals, just like people, sometimes die while under or directly after waking up for anesthesia for what seems like no reason.
 
When I was younger we did all our farm cats(not much money around). No anesthesia, very little bleeding, slow cat for a day or two never lost one.
Cats are very sensitive to most anesthetics. Normally very low doses are used. I could see where a vet would lose one now and then.
ps our cats go to the vet now. My hands shake too
much now.
 
If he survived that operation life would not be worth living anyway. I do not feel bad about butchering a barrow or a steer because he seems to have nothing to live for.
 
My mama cat disappeared last week she had 5 kittens that needed her although they were eating cat food but needed her milk. Last weekend something got the the small cat door and I have 4 dead and one half eaten. One has disappeared.
Bummer ther were very cute little kittens.
Walt
 
Walt, I would suspect it was a renegade tomcat that killed your kittens. Years ago we had two or three litters killed and partially eaten by toms.
 
Interesting.
We had two farm cats when I was growing up.
They were brothers and one lived 'til he got caught up in a mower out in the hay field at 18 yrs.
The other one lived to be 21 when he finally had to be put down.
They were "fixed" by a local farmer who did that for all the neighbors.
My Mom told me he stuck them head first down a piece of pipe when he "operated" on them.
No anesthesia; ' course this was back in the 30s and 40s.
When an animal had to be put down in those days a bullet was used. In the case of the cats that had been part of the family for so long, my Mom paid one of the local farm boys to do it.
You'd be thrown in jail nowadays but that was the way it was back then and I don't think it could be called inhumane.
 
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