May 28th - June 1st 2007
Also went to Petshop with four kittens to place up for adoption. Disease tested came back clean
JUNE 4th
SINBAD STORY BEGINS HERE
Have a kitten attacked by pitbull in my care. Will take him in for xrays and treatment today. Was rescued from Stockton emergency as they were going to turn him over to animal control.We.received a phone call from a concerned party at a Stockton animal hospital.The caller whispered into the phone that the hospital wasn't doing anything to help a kitten mangled by a pitbull. The kitten has chest punctures and it appears a shattered leg. The caller stated that the hospital was going to hand him over to animal control.In the meanwhile the kitten was left to suffer. Can you imagine???Makes me sick.
I couldn't wait to get my hands on him.First thing I did was give him pain medication and wrap his leg. They couldn't even wrap his leg att aht damn hospital. How I detest them for the pain thety left this baby in! Arghhh~ I put him on two types of antibiotics.Clindamycin and Clavmox. His leg is purple and swollen, some black areas on the toes mean gangrene, and front first 2 inches from joint just hangs. The kitten has a deep puncture wound to the chest but breathes okay and is actually purring when held, and trying to play with another kitten. I am most upset that 48 hours passed without the hospital giving any antibiotics or pain medications How dare they. They just let him sit while they wait for Animal control.
I will take him in first thing tomorrow to Dr Raj for x-rays.He is my Vet in Manteca
What a lucky little kitty to have survived such a bite. I hear the pitbull owner wasn't doing anything to get his dog to release the hold on the kitten until some people yelled they would call the police. Then he hit his dog and pried open the mouth. The pit owner ran with his dog. Well, just spent 1 hour taking care of puppies. Time to fall into bed.It is 10:30 and I am beat. Night!
JUNE 5th I took the kitten attacked by the pitbull to the Vet and the news was bad. He has a temporary cast on until tomorrow. He had full body x-rays which showed lungs and heart not damaged by the puncture wounds to his chest but his front leg is snapped in several peices . We will discuss surgery and other options tomorrow. We can't afford the surgery that could be3,000.00 with the specialist. Dr Raj said he will do the surgery himself and use titatium pins at a fraction of the cost.
It should be abut $1000
As of June 10th
Lost a kitten and so had the three littermates disease tested. They came out negative, so do not know why the one died.Tiny babies under 5 weeks are just weaker.They need to nurse but the litter was brought to us and no one knows where mom was.We give kitten milk, warmth,food and antibiotics and the rest is up to nature.
I have trapped another adult and four older ferral kittens.The adult was fixed and released,
NOVEMBER 2007 UPDATE ON "SINBAD". It was a long hard journey over the last several months. SInbad finally got his surgery and pins were put into the two broken bones.Over a course of months his leg had to be re wrapped daily ( many times 2 or 3 times aday due to his stepping into water) While in the light cast the first few weeks The leg had started to turn bad under the cast and had developed a off black darkening to the skin
( despite antibiotics) Thank-goodness I had made a check up appointment when I did and inssited and asked to have the cast removed and leg checked.It was touch and go for many weeks.In the end he lost a toe, but to this day he uses his leg entire leg , despite a limp.
Sinbad at one year. He lost 1 toe to gangrene. I messaged his leg daily 3 times aday and used warm water to help the circulation. So he lost one toe and kept his leg!
Look who has his one and only orange leg! Sinbad 1 year old here
Cast removed over and over to check on leg
