What Happens When Your Cat Has Only One Ovary?
I’m willing to pay anything to help my pets, but this problem isn’t fixable
My kitten Astrid was about six months old when I took her to the vets to be spayed. As I write this, however, she’s yowling right in my ear because she’s in heat, which may give you a clue as to how the surgery turned out.
On the day of the operation, I was a nervous wreck waiting for the phone call to tell me the procedure had gone OK.
She’s a nervous, persnickety sort of cat by disposition — the kind that will be rubbing up against your hand one second, then biting it the next. I’ve coddled her during the entirety of her short cat life, so she has no real reason to be. She just is, and I accept her like that.
But I was expecting trouble. Astrid’s the kind of cat who never lets anything be easy, from her eating habits to her petting preferences, and I anticipated her surgery to be no different.
Finally, the phone rang. The vet had news I couldn’t actually comprehend: it turned out Astrid had just a single ovary.
The vet had made two incisions into her furry kitten belly looking for the rogue, lost, second ovary, but with no luck. She was calling to tell me they were stitching her back up and to expect a harder…
