Made a difference to THAT one

[cjsmith]

Even though it looks like the first cat I spayed didn't survive the next 24 hours, the first dog I spayed DID

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[dcart]

Oh.

I don't know how you can do what you do. I think it would kill me.

[cjsmith]

That was a long rough day, to be sure.

But hey, one scarred, limping, friendly, wriggly, "I Will Wash Your Ears" pit bull girl will have a happy home for her remaining years. That makes up for a lot.

[gev]

Congratulations!
Hurray for good days!

[cjsmith]

Good news like this sure does help!

[ladycelia]

I don't know what "ectopic spleen tissue" means, but I know NOT CANCER. Glad this story has a happy ending.

[cjsmith]

Exactly! :) :) (Ectopic means, as best I can make out, "where it's not supposed to be". She has little teeny bits of spleen where they're not supposed to be. Usually that's because there was an injury before, and cells broke free, and they got stuck elsewhere in the vessels and made little tiny spleenlike lumps. Her spleen did indeed have a big ugly scar on it.)

[ladycelia]

Damn, a spleen injury serious enough to cause that--I'm surprised it didn't just kill her.

[cjsmith]

Yeah, the bleeding is usually what would get ya. She's a lucky girl.

[cjsmith]

Yes indeed! Terrified -- someone's going to do a lot of slow patient work if she's ever going to be comfortable around dogs -- but utterly sweet, and in a single-dog house she could be happy as a clam right now, fetching sticks and washing people's faces.

[firecat]

Some family is going to be very lucky, thanks to you.

[cjsmith]

And huge thanks to the behaviorist/trainer who's been working with her. I can only imagine how terrified and reactive this girl was when she first arrived at the shelter. That person is an angel.