Gramps v2
Gramps is still at the vet. Well... at a different vet, but at a vet nonetheless. He's very sick... infected wound on neck, frost bitten ears, rotten teeth, and possibly a jaw tumor. He's been on IV fluids and antibiotics had his mattes shaved off & bathed.
Saturday I went to visit him with our Foster Coordinator (and her cute as a button blind sneezing up blood kitten saved from high-kill Hamilton shelter - pic of him later!), and got his blood work results. Anemic and FIV+ (chances of adoption just went down drastically). He is not stable enough to have surgery. Today they found a bad hook worm infection and it will be at least 10 more days befor they can consider doing surgery on it - at this point he would not be able to take the anesthesia. They can't even begin to see if there is a tumour and if it is cancer unless they can anesthetize.
So keep your fingers crossed for little Gramps still! However any prognosis will be better than suffering and dying outside on the street...
Saturday I went to visit him with our Foster Coordinator (and her cute as a button blind sneezing up blood kitten saved from high-kill Hamilton shelter - pic of him later!), and got his blood work results. Anemic and FIV+ (chances of adoption just went down drastically). He is not stable enough to have surgery. Today they found a bad hook worm infection and it will be at least 10 more days befor they can consider doing surgery on it - at this point he would not be able to take the anesthesia. They can't even begin to see if there is a tumour and if it is cancer unless they can anesthetize.
So keep your fingers crossed for little Gramps still! However any prognosis will be better than suffering and dying outside on the street...
