Jim that is such a sweet thing to say. An incredibly thoughtful post. Skitty's vet is actually in south Gorham, so its about a 45 minute drive south of Lewiston (its actually just a couple miles from the Portland Jetport). I'm hoping it won't come to that next year, lol. I also honestly couldn't ask you to do that, but thats an incredible offer and I do thank you for it. The whole transportation is ONLY an issue when it comes to the vet! Grr.
Needless to say, we just got back from the vet. My ride did feel bad for cancelling last minute, so that helped. Now, onto the vet results. I was expecting a 100% clean bill of health but I didn't get one, so I was taken by surprise and I feel like a failure, I'm practically in tears (and I know thats irrational thinking, given the results weren't alarming. Its just that with him, I'm not happy unless he gets 110% of what he needs 110% of the time. Everything from his heart/lungs/ears/eyes are ALL 100% healthy. He got a nail trim and the vet said he needed a beak trim too, so we did that. I didn't think it was too long, she said it wasn't the length, it was too thick.
He's still a little chubby she said BUT he did lose 3grams. She wants him to lose another 5 grams, mainly because he's free flighted.
But, she said his Grams stain test showed 95%pos/5%-neg. Which was normal range but she only saw ONE kind of bacteria in the negative and she wants to see a variety so she's putting him on ProBiotics. We'll see how that goes.
He's also a bit lacking in Vitamin D. I live in a dark apartment (obstructed by a church wall), so he only gets direct sunlight if I take him outside. She says on any day its above 70 to take him out for at least an hour to get some Vitamin D. But this is Maine, while we haven't had many days below 70 since May, normally we don't get days that nice (though maybe thats changing). I'm also going to look into a full-spectrum UV light.
I told her I have those lights for my S.A.D and she asked if I change them every 6mo and i said no, she said they should be changed every six months which I didn't know.
So nothing alarming, nothing I need to lose sleep over (I'll keep telling myself that til I believe it-sort of "self-therapy" lol).
One good thing though, my neighbor (and I guess you'd say best friend) still thinks that if Skittles looks and acts healthy, then he is. I told her its like she is saying I'm wasting money and she says "no, not at all. I'm trying to save you money?". Well thats great, I ought to ask her how much it costs to repair a broken heart. Anyways, onto the good thing...I can make her eat crow. Rub it in her face that he is NOT 100% healthy and had I not brought him to the vet, I wouldn't have known this. Knowing it now, I can take action to prevent future problems. Okay, I'll be nice about it- but still, I will savor serving her the crow.
but after the last time when a "new" employee hacked her nails so bad and made Amy CRY and hold her foot up for a couple hours..it really PMO and I went back and told them so! So never again will that happen.
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