Zeriel's Journal: my cat almost got to be a hero last night

So cats can give blood transfusions, did you know that?

It's true! Apparently, cat blood types either can't be tested or don't matter, as the procedure is for a donor cat to give blood directly to the recipient (no such thing as a feline blood bank).

There are fairly stringent criteria for donors--the donor has to be older than two and younger than seven, and in the top half of their healthy weight range, and above 10lbs in general.

So it turns out that of the cats that fit that description in a 10mile radius of the vet hospital MrsZer works at, the only one who's consistently available is my younger cat, Nikolas. Sixteen pounds of pure docile stupidity^W love, he is. http://athertonia.org/czarnikolas.jpg

So he almost gave a transfusion to a kitty dying of lymphoma last night. Alas, the sick kitty was fading too fast, and euthanasia ended up being its fate.

Still, it's weird to think that my cat's now on a list of blood donors. And cool at the same time.

hommmmm

[Carrot007]

nice cat, has a bell on the collar though, thats mean.

birds are evil.

and don't get me started on the collar!

Re:hommmmm

[Zeriel]

He lives indoors, anyway--the bell is to warn his eight-pound sister, who often does NOT want to play. And he certainly seems to prefer his collar--when we take it off for whatever reason, he meows at it until we put it back on.

The pic doesn't do him justice. He's freakin' huge.

animal hospital

[Abm0raz]

Which hospital does she work at? Does she work with a VERY pregnant tech named "Lindsay"? Just curuios.

-Ab