This elderly baby is off to a veterinary dentist this morning for a high risk tooth extraction. Send healing vibes please!
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Huckleberry is 16 or 17 and this is the second time a vet has told us he is dying and he has actually turned out to be OK. In November, his regular vet saw him and I mentioned he had bad breath. She took a look in his mouth and told us he very likely had oral squamous cell carcinoma—a rapidly growing destructive cancer–and that there was nothing we could do. A month later and he still seemed about the same, so we took him to the dentist and they said he probably just has a rotten tooth!
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It's definitely not squamous cell carcinoma (or there would be an obvious tumor by now), but there still is a chance it is another slower growing cancer. Hopefully just an infected tooth and everything will heal up with antibiotics.
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@LeafyEricScott 🦷
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Update from the vet: apparently his upper canines are also diseased and they're going to remove those as well as a lower molar. He's really going to look like an old man now 😿
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I am a nervous wreck today, so thank you fediverse for listening!
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@LeafyEricScott Hoping everything goes well today for you both. I love the name Huckleberry.
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@mike It's a great name, although we didn't choose it. We've only had him for the past 4 or 5 years, but he was named that because he was found by a river as a kitten (in Ohio)!
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@LeafyEricScott He's well travelled! How did you come by him? Your introduction says you're from California, but you're currently living here in Arizona (Tucson I'm assuming based on the UofA). Neither of those is Ohio, or even close, if my geography isn't seriously lacking.
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@mike He was our friend's cat when I was a grad student at Tufts University in Boston. Our friend had us cat-sit for a couple months while she lived in a yurt in New Hampshire finishing up her dissertation. Then she started seeing someone who was very allergic to cats, so we became his permanent retirement home.
He has adjusted well to desert living though and definitely enjoys the wildlife watching, especially the abundance of doves and hummingbirds we have in the yard.
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@LeafyEricScott Ahh, that's a familiar story. It's very close to how I got my last cat. Now Huckleberry is even more travelled than before. Ohio, Boston, California, Arizona? He's lived in more states than I have!
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@mike He never lived in CA, just in Ohio, maybe new york? (can't remember where my friend was before boston), Boston, and now in Arizona. I haven't lived in CA in a looooooong time
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@LeafyEricScott Well, he's at the minimum tying me. I've got three states under my belt, and that's it. Huckleberry has at least that many. He's seen all kinds of birds.
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