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Sep 11, 2018, 06:25 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,096
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The new little one made he first trip to the vet today. She won over the staff being sweet and purring.
She weighed a whole one pound 12 ounces. She's very thin, but gaining weight at a reasonable rate. Her blood work was good. As expected she has hook worms. She also has some weird, unusual kind of worm that they get from eating things like crawfish and the like. There's wet lands behind my farm so maybe she ate whatever. Trust me to have a critter with some strange health problem. She gets a topical dewormer in a couple of days to kill the dang thing off. The vet warned me she might pass a two FOOT long worm!!! No wonder the little baby has such a round tummy!
Other than the weird worm she got a clean bill of health. She got her first shots today. That's why we are waiting for treat the worm. If we did both at the same time and she got sick we wouldn't be able to tell which made her sick.
My vet has a "kitten package" that you pay up front for all the shots, spaying etc at once. My credit card gave a little squeal when they ran it, but she's good to go for all her health stuff now. We go back in a month for the next set of shots. That should be it until she gets spayed.
Oh yeah, she's so small I thought she was 6-8 weeks old. The vet says she's more like 8-10.
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