Had a Siamese that was a scrapper, he would even take on the largest of dogs. When he was just a kitten named him Tanghi then as he grew older started calling him Dummy. He lived to a ripe old age of 16 years, my ex had custody of the cat but when he suffered from kidney failure I was asked to take the cat.
I kept him for another year and a half then finally had to out him down, anyhow I'm wandering from what I had originally intended to say, from scrapping some of his wounds would become infected. I had so much money tied up in Vets that i decided to take matters into my own hands.
When the cat had a Vet visit it was usually just a shot of penicillin, I walk into the local Vet and grabbed a bottle of penicillin from the cooler, everything went fine until I asked for a fine needle for the injection. Went back to a large animal section and grabbed the largest needle I could find - said this will do.
I not only got the fine tipped needles but instructions on how to restrain the cat, the injection is muscular and cats have claws.
If you have never given a cat a needle before it's not a fun thing to do. Anyhow the Vet told me to take an old pair of jeans then stuff the cat into the pant leg. Thats not all that easy to do either but me and a buddy managed to get he cat into the pant leg.
I'm just a country boy at heart.
Pat and I bought some piglets from the auction turns out 6 of them had all their hardware and will grown into large mean bores, I'm not going to get into all the details other than to say this was the first animal surgery that I have ever performed.
Instructions came from a book we purchased.
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