Yesterday, while I was camping at the vet’s with Indy, quite a number of the clinic’s clients stopped by to say hello.
There was this particular family who had come to visit their cat.
Here’s their story:
They had this mother cat who had given birth (in two pregnancies) to five siblings and the family decided to adopt all of them. One of the siblings was knocked down by a neighbour’s vehicle one fateful day and the injury was to his bladder and hind legs. Surgery was performed to repair the injury but there was just so much the vets could do. The cat is also paralysed on both hind legs and can only waddle around with his front legs. But the bigger problem is the urination and permanent injury to the bladder.
Ever since then, the family has had to bring the cat in every month whenever the cat could not urinate. And this called for very close monitoring. They said if the cat did not urinate for 2-3 hours, they would bring him in already.
A procedure to insert a catheter would have to be done to drain the urine out and the cat would have to board for about 5 days each time.
This has been going on for a long time now. The family dutifully brings the cat in every month for the procedure.
The mother, who told me the story, said the cat is 6 years old now and all of them (the cat-siblings) are part of the family already. You can’t have it any other way, she said. You’d have to take care of them as best you can and if this is what you have to do, you just have to do it.
That is so nice to hear, isn’t it? How often do we hear of abandonment, surrender or worse, euthanasia, when the going gets tough?
This is precisely the unconditional love we’ve always been talking about – to see no difference between your pet and your child, or you parent or your grandparent or any human that we love dearly and whose wellbeing we are responsible for.
We don’t abandon them when they are sick or when things become difficult, do we?
Then, in the next room, I overheard the conversation between a lady and the vet. The vet was teaching this lady how to do dressing on her dog. Instructions were given in detail and the vet showed her how to do it. Then, I heard the lady was supposed to bring in the dog every morning for some other procedure. The vet asked, “When are you free to bring him in?” The lady answered, “You just tell me what time, and I’ll make sure I bring him in. Anytime, doctor.” The commitment was solid.
These are stories we like to hear, isn’t it?
It is all about responsibility and love.
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2 responses to “Stories we like to hear”
just want to ask, is this a Malay mid aged lady staying at Damansara/TTDI? if yes, i met her few times. the last time i met them is on the day callie died. she saw callie a day before and recognized callie from petknode case, and say hello to me by my name. i cant remember her, so i apologized but told her that she looks familiar. she said that we’ve talked to each other few times before. i’m blushed coz i cant remember her but she still remembers me, and my name!
i know that they brought in and visit their cat daily whenever the cat is warded. the whole family will come and visit the cat, as if they are visiting their human family members in a hospital. i adore this family coz of this. all their cats are lucky to have them as their family members.
YES, your description fits her exactly. She’s very kind and compassionate. And yes, her whole family was there, husband and daughter and maybe, a son, too.