Getting spayed twice!

[version1955]

Heck, we didn't know and the vet couldn't tell! Kitty Hawk adopted us about a year ago. She was a teeny little kitty and she just showed up all of a sudden. Well, we brought her to the vet this morning to get her spayed and when Gerald went to pick her up the vet said that she was already spayed!

Huh!

It also turned out that Kitty Hawk figured out how to operate the window buttons on our car too We are using the cat carrier as her cat house (different thread ) so Gerald thought he could carry her in a Bud Light box. Well... the silly man didn't even put string around it, so when he came in the house to tell me he was ready to go, the window on the driver's side was wide open and Kitty Hawk was ambling around the front yard!

Of course Gerald responds with a rush of expletives thinking he'll never get her again. After all, I had to put up a barrier to her cat house last night so she couldn't eat or drink and we figured she'd be po'd at us. But I shushed Gerald and called "Kitty, kitty, kitty" and she jumps up into my arms. Kitty Hawk and I get into the backseat and off we go. Didn't take long before she was purring in my lap. Pretty amazing for a stray, don't you think?

Kitty Hawk has now taken up residence in our bathtub for the next couple days. The vet said the anesthetic interferes with a cat's ability to maintain body temperature. Its been only been a couple degrees above zero at night and maybe 18 or 20 during the warmest part of the day.

At least we don't have to worry about kittens from her. But we have another stray that has been at our place for at least as long as Kitty Hawk but is still too scared to let us near. Hopefully its a male

[dproaps]

Oh that's funny! And I have a story too. Once we adopted a stray tomcat. We took him in to the clinic to be "fixed". Well, I guess they decided this new vet (intern?) could do a fairly easy surgery, so they assigned him to her. She failed to check the sex and actually opened him up to spay him!!!!!!

Then had the nerve to call me up and bless me out for not telling them it was a boy! (It was clearly marked on his chart, lol!)

Anyway, he had to go home and get healed up from that, then go back and actually get neutered. Poor kitty! He really was "fixed".

[Orchid]

version, I have to wonder how many people would have the innocence (or the nerve) to deliver a cat to the vet in a beer box.

[APHANutmeg]

Originally Posted by Orchid

version, I have to wonder how many people would have the innocence (or the nerve) to deliver a cat to the vet in a beer box.

Orchid, I have seen that quite a few times when I worked at one clinic. 1 guy even had the nerve to still have beer in the box with the cat

[roberts617]

Oh my goodness that's too funny. What a good kitty!

[OSUJillyBean]

I have a similar story - when I was workign for the humane society a few years back we would send about six cats a week tothe OSU Vet School to be spayed/neutered. One little black female went, got fixed, and was sent back.

She didn't get adopted and the office person marked "spayed" on another black female cat's chart. So about a month later she went back and OSU opened her up and sewed her back shut again, sending her back with "this kitty is already spayed".

It would have been funny if it didn't happen a third time!

They kept getting her confused with that other black cat (who I'm not sure ever got spayed). Poor girl, I'm sure she was glad to leave us when she finally got adopted.

[chris6351]

Our cat -Kit Me Kat found us! When we couldn't locate her owner-I took her to our Vet who told me she was already spayed! They said when they shaved her belly she had a jagged scar on it-but not like a surgery scar, so they went ahead and opened her up....nothing there! Said they never saw anything like how she was sewed back up-not even at the spay clinics....so who knows where she came from!

[SheriK]

Version - we had a similar experience with a little female cat adopting us last fall about this time. It took me a couple of weeks to get her to come down from the hayloft and eat with the other cats. She was pretty scared and hated the other cats at first and was pretty spooky around us. I took her early this spring for her shots and spaying. The vet called not long after I dropped her off and said they had drugged her up and shaved her little belly and there was a tattoo. She had already been spayed too. I didn't know they did the tattooing thing, but it sure saved her from being opened up again. Our little Stoey now acts like she has been around forever. Since she is the only female in our barn with five boys, she is the queen, just ask the boys

[QuarterCowGirl]

It happens to the best of us!

When I was at the vets doing a coop placement, we had a cat there that was to be spayed. We had her knocked out and we were starting to shave her belly when we noticed she was infact a he!!!

[version1955]

dproaps, its really tough to imagine getting a cat ready for surgery and not even accidentally noticing the gender That's beyond lack of attention to detail Did they have the excuse that they were trained for large animal veterinary?

Jilly, that poor little kitty! Do you suppose she'll need plastic surgery when she's middle aged?

Orchid, I don't even know where he got the Bud Light box in the first place

Gerald said that when he went to get the kitty that she went jumping from door to door to try to open the windows. In fact, she found out she could open any of the windows from the driver's side! Didn't take him too long to realize he had to push the lock button

I guess she doesn't like being in the house. Its more fun to sneak in when she isn't supposed to then actually have to be there. Tonight is her last night sleeping in the bathtub. Maybe she'll figure out its a jacuzzi and have a spa treatment before she's back outside in her recycled digs

[Gotta Love Duns]

Well at least you know that she will never have kittens

[Valleygirl]

Our story went the other way. We took our stray dog to the vet to have her spayed and the vet said she had already been done. Two years later we were very surprised when she had 4 puppies.

[For8tune]

I work at a vet clinic in the boon docks and have not seen the beer box yet. Cute story.

You can shave a female for a scar or palpate the male to see if they have had the surgeries. Sometimes it is confussing. If it is questionable we do a
"2nd Surgery". Sometimes males can be cryptorcid as well so that is even more confussing too. It is even harder when these animals just show up and owners know nothing about them or adopt from a shelter. We just try our best. As far as gender that is a no brainer.

[version1955]

Hmm... after reading those last two posts I'm kinda thinking we have a new use for duct tape