ALPO - The taste of field mice without the exercise!
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| New Brunswick Teenagers Perform Cesarian on Cat - Kittens Saved |
| 2005-08-12 |
| HT : Drudge Two teenagers performed a caesarean section on a dead cat they found along a New Brunswick road, saving two of four kittens. Monica Castonguay, 15, and Kim QuimpÚre, 13, said they found the animal on July 31 while they were on their way for a walk in the woods near St. Quentin, a town in northwestern New Brunswick. They told a French-language newspaper, the Acadie Nouvelle, that they recognized the cat and knew it was pregnant. After discovering that the cat's body was still warm, they decided to try to save its kittens – even though neither of them knew how to do a caesarean section or had studied biology. Kim borrowed a sweater, knife and some cotton swabs from a nearby house. They decided Monica would do the surgery. She told the newspaper she wasn't sure where to cut, but made an incision into the mother cat's belly and could see the kittens. She pulled them out and found that two of four kittens were still alive, so she cut their umbilical cords and wiped the mucus from their noses. Kim bundled the kittens carefully in the sweater, then the teens raced home with them. They telephoned several people but were unable to reach a veterinarian. That evening, a cat in the neighbourhood that had recently lost its brood heard the kittens mewing and adopted them. One of the kittens later died but the other was adopted by Monica. The teens said the experience in no way swayed them toward becoming doctors or veterinarians. Kim told the newspaper that she found the experience interesting but rather nauseating. The kitten resembles "Martin Whiteshoes", my cat at that age. As a kitten he was originally 1-1/2 lbs, he is now the 14-lb bane of all lizards, mice, birds and even rats within a half block area of my house... These young women will have their hands full in about 6 months! Unlike California, residence of Martin, there are no lizzards in Canada... |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #3 ALPO - The taste of field mice without the exercise! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-12 13:58 |
| #2 I knew a hard 'n' crusty fifty year old rancher whose even harder 'n' crustier father lived in a cabin on the Mogollon (Muggy-oon) Rim, in the pine forest near Flagstaff, Arizona. The son was visiting his father when he heard a hair-raising shriek, like a baby in intense pain, and into the open front door walked a bobcat. After telling his son to get off the table, the old man explained that he had adopted the bobcat ("Bob") as a kitten, and knew it was a wild animal, but for a big can of Alpo a day, the bobcat kept away the vermin and the solicitors. They were of similar temperament, so got along fine. "However," the old man added, "I'm not crazy like that S.O.B. a few miles East of here who keeps two wolverines in his front yard." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-12 13:36 |
| #1 Nice story, an agreable change of pace from ther usual antics of the holy men and their rubes. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-08-12 12:33 |