For the Heck of it!

I picked Lilly up from the Old Lady’s house this morning at 8:00 am and took her to the rescue center’s clinic to be spayed and micro-chipped. Both are included in the $60.00 adoption fee which I think is a terrific deal. It would have cost over double that amount to have both procedures done in my usual vet’s office.

When I picked her up from the clinic at 3pm after her surgery I found out that the shipment of chips didn’t arrive in time and that I would have to take her back YET again next week to have the chip inserted. arrgh!

I felt so sorry for the little girl. I’m sure she is experiencing a lot of discomfort due to her surgery as well as her swollen, um, do you call them breasts on a cat? I guess you’d call them teats. At any rate she was removed from her kittens this past Saturday and she is very swollen and must have been very uncomfortable even before she was cut open. My heart goes out to her. I think I’m too overprotective of this cat that doesn’t even belong to me (yet) but I can’t help it. I already love her as if she were my own.

My husband and I went to the rescue shelter and picked up Lilly White and took her home to my mother-in-law’s house. She is a beautiful cat and everyone is very happy with her.

I wanted her to be settled into her new home before surgery and not afterwards. I thought it would be hard on Lilly to remove her from her environment, cut some of her guts out, take her away from her kittens (they are old enough, it is just the thought of it) and bring her to a strange house. This way she will already be familiar with her new home. I’ll take her to the clinic Wednesday morning and bring her home in the afternoon after surgery. She will know where her bed, litter box, food and water and toys are and it will be less stress for her. And the delivery was made by Mother’s Day.

My mother-in-law really, really likes her new kitty. I’m very happy about it and I am glad now the original cat I had selected was already adopted. We all love Lilly White.

I had let the people at the rescue shelter talk me into leaving Lilly there until after she has her surgery. The more I thought about it the less I liked that idea so I called and asked if we could pick her up tomorrow and then bring her back Wednesday for her surgery and micro-chip. They really didn’t want to let her go yet because they were afraid she would come into heat before Wednesday and run away and get lost or even worse – pregnant. But they said that we could come and get her tomorrow. Yay!

FanceePantzz was the one of the three that wasn’t sick at all. All she is is FAT! heh

Can’t leave her out so here is her picture.