I saved a kitten from almost certain death yesterday. Catherine and I were sitting at our local cafe in the early morning and a tiny black and white kitten approached us on unsteady legs. It seemed to be imploring us.
We have a vet clinic next door. I went over with the kitten and my youngest daughter. The vet asked if we were going to keep it at our house or if we wanted her to find a place for it. Catherine surmised that this may have been a euphemistic discussion and that the other place was more like a better place. Anyway, the kitten was running a temperature and it had diarrhea (on the vet table, ew). The vet gave it a shot and prescribed some oral antibiotic. Here’s where the inevitable plastic comes in. I had to get a syringe to administer the medicine and on top of that there was a plastic 5ml spoon in the box with the medicine.
I don’t have any advice to dispense related to this anecdote. I do have a kitty photo. I have heard that websites with pictures of cats are very popular on the internet.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Awwwww, what a cutie!
A warning from experience, though, make sure that the little kitty gets checked for feline leukemia — as well as other nasties. We just lost our littlest one even though we could have sworn we asked the vet to check for anything and everything that he could give our other kitties. But, for some reason, it wasn’t in his chart that he had been checked and apparently he must have had since birth to be so far along. Fortunately, our others kitties are o.k. and so we can just be happy that the little guy had almost a year with us as a spoiled little kitten.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Thank you for saving the kitten. In my experience, it’s almost impossible to avoid waste in a medical setting, unless you’re fortunate enough to live near a green health clinic (which I don’t). I do my best to be green in all other areas of my life, but have resigned myself to being responsible for a significant amount of waste every time I visit a veterinarian, “people” doctor, or dentist.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Good luck with the kitten!!! It is adorable.
Also, best wishes on your journey to reduce plastic waste!