I am so excited to report (especially after Wheeler's passing) that Scooter
came through surgery with flying colors, yahooo!  He's 4-ish, MF dark
sable, full hood, so cute.  His spleen was HUGE with growths.  He also had
the right adrenal taken out and hair balls.  Bless his heart!  We've only
had him for about 8 weeks.  Tissue was sent off and we should get a report
in a few days.  He had to stay overnight at the vets, but I was so glad to
see that he was perky when we picked him up last night.  He looks A LOT
thinner, and weights less too, grin.  I'm so glad we decided to go ahead
with the surgery.  I'm hoping that now we can give him a good quality life
with lots of love.  He got around fine before, but I know he didn't feel
good sometimes (no wonder).  He's already started moving things around in
his cage.  I hope he doesn't go too crazy until he gets the stitches out
and have time out with the rest of the munchkins.
 
We baby sat for him and some others with insulinoma over a year ago when
the shelter mom went out of town.  We fell in love with him, but didn't
keep him because his cage mate had insulinoma and we had just adopted 8 at
one time (went from 2 ferrets to 10) and were overwhelmed enough.  So when
the shelter mom called to say his cage mate passed and if we wanted him we
jumped at the chance.  I was so excited after a year of thinking about him.
So now we have him and hopefully he'll have a long and happy life with us!
 
Funny, after I talked to the vet and found out about the hair balls I went
home and gave everyone a dose of kitty malt.  We have never had a problem
with hair balls before (adrenal, insulinoma, lymphosarcoma yes, but not
hair balls).  How often do you give them the hair ball remedy?
 
Mary and The 14 Munchkins (missing Wheeler)
Chico, Sadie, Harley, Pooh, Woozel, Daisy, Fruity, Emily, Summer, Bootsie,
Oliver, Funny, Buffy and Scooter
Rowdy, Tunny and Wheeler waiting at the bridge
[Posted in FML issue 2928]