Took Jetta and Sunny to the vet today to be tested and evaluated. I felt a bit foolish though, Sunny the long-haired orange kitty (found in the box with the other cat) turned out to be female! Female long-hair kitties are rare in these parts so she will be a quick adoption. She just needs a new name now.
Jetta let EVERYONE in the clinic know that she doesn’t like to be restrained. When they were drawing blood (before they even started) they scruffed her and she turned into a baby tiger. I heard her clear in the room I was in and it just cemented the thought in my head that she has Bengal in her (her coat is amazing)
We discussed Licorice and Hope. One kitty is recovering well, the other (Hope) isn’t doing so good. Licorice is gaining strength- I don’t know about weight because Mike accidentally ran over my scale with his wheelchair the other night and it is toast. 🙁 Although Hope is eating, she isn’t doing much of anything else. Dr. Steve wants to run another hemocrit next week and see what’s up. She has withdrawn to the very top of her cage, perched on top of the carrier and pretty much stays there all day. She had a small speck of black on her nose when she arrived here, and now that speck is the size of a small marble. We will just take it a day at a time and see how it goes.
Poor Hope had better start living up to her name. I don’t like that black speck on her nose. Why is it growing so quickly?
If it is squamous cell carcinoma, it can grow at an alarming rate. I suspect it has been developing inside her nasal cavity and we are seeing the root. I have seen this cancer to many times in my lifetime and it is aggressive and not to be messed with. Once you biopsy it- you might as well forget it. It pisses the cancer off and it spreads like ivy on a fence. I don’t even want to try and shave the hair off it to see what it is- one day at a time for her and we will see how it goes.