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So, I arrived bright and early last Sunday for the SPCA cat neuter/spay day. My intention for the day was to be there doing one of the easy peasy jobs, like watching the cats in the recovery area as they came out of their anesthesia to make sure all was well before they went home.
Instead, I ended up in the pre-op room, where we (me, another volunteer and two vet techs) took cats out of their carriers and got their weight, temperature, heart rate and respiration. After subjecting the cats to those indignities, we gave them an injection to help them while they were anesthetized and put lubricant into their eyes to keep them moist during surgery. Then we moved them to the surgery rooms (one for boys and one for girls).
This was not the easy peasy job I had planned for. Cats, as any cat owner knows, aren’t the calmest of souls when everything is going their way. Put them in a small carrier, in a strange environment, alongside other strange cats and it’s easy to see...
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