Krista Magnifico

He came home one day with a swelling on his right shoulder about 1 week after his family noted he was limping. The initial exam (about 1 week before the drain was placed), revealed a slight fever, swollen and painful area of the right shoulder. Cats are adept at fighting and causing abscess because their sharp claws can puncture the skin, seed bacteria under the skin, and then their skin closes/heals so quickly that it traps the bacteria (infection) under the skin. Any firm, warm, acute painful swelling, OR, any cat who is acting quiet, lethargic, not eating well and has a fever should be examined for infection.

The people who can't live, won't live, wouldn't even try to imagine living without a pet in their life. If these don't work share your home with a pet sitter, or your pet can stay at doggie camp while you are away. If you live within a tight budget, or need to budget for emergencies consider pet insurance, have an emergency pet fund, and find a vet like us who will help you with payment options if they are needed. It takes openness, truthful discussions, devoted emotional investment that you share with the veterinarian, don't be angry at the vet, don't try to coerce, lie, threaten, manipulate, it will cost your pet and break the walls of trust that allow compromise to happen.

The end,, that precipice place right before life meets forever absent, well that place, where I am mired now, that place sucks,, bad. You let those beagles out of your sight and off they go, into the clear blue yonder, nose to the ground, running, ears flapping in the wind their heels kick up. It's genetics screaming at their primitive primal brain imprisoned by a nose that must follow where the trail lies, the bunnies are, and the adventure is certainly awaiting. Running in the woods, being caught up in the moment and living the life of the boy he has always been, unleashed, undying, and blissfully euphorically purposeful.

People don't go because they don't want to, or don't recognize their value, they don't go because they cannot afford to."Ummm, what the? ? Internally I feel that bubbling nausea of frustration meets vomit induced worry that another sick puppy will be biting the dust because another vet who wants to feel like they are offering empathy is merely shirking the guilt and another vet practice who is happy to let me do what they can for their own patient for free.. Maybe he just didn't have the $500 bucks I estimated Poe would cost over the next 6 months, and he couldn't listen to the kids cry again? And just maybe I need to revel in my own happy endings, even when the world doesn't deliver them in packages as marvelous as a puppy.