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we had been planning to spay our cat for more than a year now and finally last saturday we took gendon for a trip to the animal clinic. this was it gendon, after today, you wont be able to mate again, not that we will allow you to anyway. so it's better to be this way.
after today, there will be no more howling or mating calls that will keep the whole neighbourhood awake. sheesh! gendon, malulah. we are doing this with our conscience intact mind you! we had let gendon mate once and she already had four kittens and now it's time for her to just be a cat, our cat.
we had set an appointment with the spca and they told us that gendon had to fast before she could undergo the operation. so, we had to put her in the cage the whole night and she had this confused look because we had never caged her.
normally, we have kaka and gendon running loose in the apartment when we go to work and when we return home, they didnt turn the apartment upside down. good cats! hehehe...very well behaved.
d-day for gendon. we arrived at the spca, ampang at exactly 11.30am and when we went inside, the woman told us the neuter operation was done at a different clinic and not at the spca centre. erkkk! i called dr krishnan and told him to wait for us because we're not sure where the clinic was. it took us almost 2 hours to find the klinik kembiri dbkl. gendon bless her, was very well behaved and didnt make a noise at all.
i have cats all of my life, some went missing and some i had buried beneath the rambutan tree behind my house but i have never spayed any of them until now. my mom wont allow me to do that. she still thinks that it's cruel to spay animals. well, what she didnt know wont hurt her, eh!
man! how long does it take to spay a cat. i was already late for my guitar class and i was worried that something would happen to gendon. finally, they brought gendon out of the operation room and phew! she was still unconscious but her lower belly was shaved and plastered.
the doctor explained how to take care of our cat and what to do after she regains consciousness and how to take care of her. i think it's good to take care of our own cat instead of leaving them at the clinic for a few days. it makes you more responsible of your own pet. since zal was going back to her hometown, i was left in charge.
i left gendon in her cage at the apartment since she wont wake up until 6pm and went straight to my guitar class. JET's Look What You've Done was the assignment of the day. I think it's an easy song to play. The song had Beatles written all over it, so to speak. Nice!
it's 6.30pm, gendon had yet to wake up and i was worried like hell. gosh! i had spent the whole evening staring at her. gendon's eyes was wide open and glazed but she was unconscious and that was kind of spooky me thinks. God! i love this cat and I really hope she would be okay. Finally, she blinked and that was the most beautiful thing to see. thank God! she looked really groggy and didnt have the strength to move and her feet were cold.
i gave her a drink like what the doctor ordered. she only sipped a little and went back to sleep. i spent most of the night looking after her because she vomitted quite a few times and didnt want to eat at all.
sunday morning, she ate a little and had been able to move about in her cage. i felt a huge relief because gendon was on the road to recovery. it's true what the doctor said unlike humans, animals will recover very fast. on monday, gendon was let out of her cage and she was in excellent condition.
i was worried that the operation would change her somehow, that she would act differently and become more aggresive especially towards her kitten kaka. In the end, all the worrying had come to nothing when gendon played with kaka and bathed him lovingly. So, gendon was still herself minus the ovary. There will come a time when kaka will also be neutred but for the time being we will let him enjoy his “childhood”….
last modified Oct 14, 2004 at 3:55
kulat2: betul, dia memang kucing yg istimewa tapi anak dia kaka memang macam setan sikit. hehee..
zuril: gendon tu maksudnya gemok gedempol. hehehe...gendon dulu masa kecik dia gemok sbb tu bagi nama tu.
oooo..barulah dapat kenal rupa GENDON..hihi,comel la Gendon.. ("gendon" tu sebenarnya apa eh?)
Cute & well behaved Gendon! Cayalah!
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