June 21st 2007 2:09 pm
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Hi, this is Pico, Mike's dog sister. Yesterday, Mike wandered off for the afternoon like he usually does (I don't know why he didn't want to hang out with me and Ben-the-bunny and Julie, we were playing clicker and agility games - it was super fun.) Anyway, he wasn't home when our pawrents went out to dinner either - although that's not uncommon for him. When they came home, he was in one of the chairs on the back porch and really lethargic. He also wasn't able to move very well. He's not saying what happened, but the vet said that his front nails were shredded, which usually means either a car accident, dog attack or some other kind of trauma. I'm guessing he's keeping quiet about what happened because either way, if our pawrents knew, they'd reduce his freedom somehow. Anyway, Julie and Rich were really worried about him and he obviously was in pain, so they took him to Eastside Dove Lewis - which is this really amazing emergency vet hospital right by our house. I know when I've had to go there, they made me feel a lot better. I don't know exactly what happened while he was in there, because they made me wait in the car, but when he came out he was feeling better and he had some medicine. The pawrents moved his litterbox and food into the upstairs bathroom and he decided to sleep on the bottom shelf of the linen cabinet instead of one of the beds or with us (he likes the linen cabinet - but not usually at night.)
Then this morning, Julie got a phone call from the vet at Dove Lewis and it turns out that when the radiologist looked at his X-rays, he saw what looked like a hernia. So, our pawrents had to take him to the main Dove Lewis for surgery. Julie just got a phone call that he's going into surgery right now. And she told me he won't be back until tomorrow morning at the earliest. I'll let you know more when I find out more - and I'm sure he'll have some comments when he gets home. I'm sure good thoughts from his kitty friends would help.
Pico
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