I've never had a girl cat before - just boys. And boys are pretty easy to desex; for the owner, there really isn't any downtime at all. So I was a little bit anxious for Ava. She is a late spay too, as we have been battling with her health for months, poor little thing. There is still no 'verdict' as to what was wrong - she had bad tummy troubles. And she passed it to Kato at one stage, so it started out as something infectious. But all our testing, including the all-encompassing PCR test (which we did twice!) showed no conclusive results. So we went down the drug trial route, and that helped, and fixed Kato, but Ava was still a bit poorly. We then started on food trials (still ongoing), and she had sufficient improvement to catch up on all her kitten vaccinations, yay! And finally, at 7.5months, she was well enough to be desexed.
So in she went yesterday. I think she spent a rather anxious day, despite capturing the hearts of all the staff at the vet's, who spent time climbing into her cage to give her cuddles! I collected her at the end of the day and she was very subdued in her carry cage.
When we got home, Ava was so relieved! She spent an evening of lavishing me with the most extradordinary displays of love! Her eyes were funny, and it seemed like she had ADD - she'd rub up against me, flop over onto her back, look one way, then the next, scamper into my arms and snuggle in close against my chest and neck purring at a rate of knots and giving my love eyes, then repeat...I put it down to the drugs! She'd had some opiate based pain relief and her eyes were glassy and black. But such a sweet sweet little thing! She hasn't snuggled that close since she was a little kitten.
This morning I was woken by ENORMOUS purrs. Ava was badly congested (but very happy!). We rang our vet just in case, and we are on a 'wait and see' order, with the hypothesis that the flu virus she carried (and gave to Kato - who has been battling it on and off for 3 months) had stirred up due to yesterday's stress. In all other manners, Ava is doing well. I'm trying to divert her play demands into low-key options - she's supposed to be 'resting' (tell that to a Korat!)
Kato reacted in manners I was half expecting - he had a lovely day all to himself yesterday, and lapped up the attention. When Ava came home, he sniffed her over very very closely, and hissed (at the vet smell, not at her). He then spent 3 hours reclaiming the travel cage, by sniffing it over and napping in it! I'm on alert that he doesn't clean her shaved belly or incision site too closely. And that's where I will leave this post, as I now only have one hand...sweet Ava has just climbed into my arms :)
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