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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Thanks for the offers of help! Of course she had to turn up right ~after~ things turned uncertain.
I'm still leaning towards "Butters" for the name, though. "Butters Stotch," to be precise. ;~D
"Butters" would work!
So would "Wendy Testaberger". ;-)
She's too skinny to have a name like "Butters" though. Maybe it'll fit after she gets fattened up.
Thank you kindly ladies...
It was a pre-fab that was here when we bought the place... I kinda hated tuh use it as a coop, but mrsnad talked me into it... we put down an epoxy resin that you normally use in a garage, in the hopes that if'n/when we get rid of the chickens, thebuildin' will hopefully still be usable...
I can't get the tab to show up...keeps timing out on me. Can you post it in the egroup photo section?
"I'm little Buttercup, just little Buttercup,
Though I can't really tell why . . . "
I like Buttercup too...Princess Buttercup!
Inconceivable?
One plan I saw in one of those whole-earth magazines suggested cutting a slot in the wall below the roosts and forming a shallow metal pan with turned up edges to slide in below. Keeps the worst of the chicken poop off the wood floor, and best of all you just slide it out and hose it off over the compost pile!
We KNOW she's not inconceivable!
Trillian? That's a good name...
I'm thinking of naming my poodle Ix when I get it...
Heh heh...she will be!
;-)
It'd be the same link there, wouldn't it? It's a snapfish link and shouldn't be too big. Maybe it just hit a bump in the internet.
Basically, it's just a scan of the estimate for the surgery and everything else, it comes out to $482 for the low estimate, $557 if it's on the high side.
Drive by posting, I've been in a meeting and have to go cook dinner (wife's out of town).
Send me yer Paypal addy. I can't do much, but I can help.
See y'all later.
Me too.
Everyone, I appreciate your generosity. But there's bad news. The vet just called, and she was on the operating table and things were very bad inside. Her uterus had ruptured some days ago, all the kittens were dead, and her insides were very contaminated. Even though I expressed a lot of hope that she seemed to feel pretty good before the surgery, he was very skeptical that she could pull through the inevitable infection that would certainly come. She's just too weak. He said "where our chances were 75% for success before, they're 25% now, and that's only after many days of expensive hospitalization. It might run to a thousand dollars in ICU and she still might die." He said "I've never seen anything like it... it's like she was thrown from a car, or kicked or something".
I said "You really think the best thing is to put her down, don't you?" he said "I think you'd be setting yourself up for a heartbreak to keep going".
Darnit. I'm full of regret and doubt, because she hadn't seemed to be too terribly sick or in pain before, but I said to go ahead and put her down.
I don't know if or how much they'll charge me. He wasn't interested in talking about the bill right now, but it will be considerably less than it was gonna be and we won't ask for help with such a depressing last chapter.
Darnit.
Crap. I barely knew the poor thing, but she had really started to grow on me.
Crap.
(((Hair)))
Oh my...
:-(
You're a good person. I've said it before. I'm sorry about all this but that poor kitty had someone look after her when she needed it and finally someone to do the right thing by her.
What a shame.
I was dying to just say "fix her" lets do it! But he was really pushing me to let her go. He said "this didn't just happen, the kittens had begun deteriorating like it happened many days ago and were in pieces. He said "even if we get all the pieces and can get her on antibiotics, she just has NO fat reserves to pull her through the next week. She's just too thin."
He didn't want to try to fix her, and I think it's because his experience was telling him it wouldn't work.
But she didn't seem that bad.
And she didn't hate people.
Oh MAN!! That's awful and I sure hate it for ya! I know she'd only been around for a couple of days but she'd really wrapped herself around all our hearts. It sounds like she never really had a chance, but at least her last days were in a good loving home.
Oh no! What a terrible turn of events. ~sigh~
(((Hair)))
Take comfort in knowing that her last days were full of love, with a full belly in a warm house - all because of you being such a "softy".
God'll bless you for it, sis.
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