Heart Flutters

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June 26th, 2008 | by admin | Open Question: My mom bought a kitten, found out it has heart problems less than a week later (please read)?
My mom bought a kitten from Petsmart last weekend. He is 2 1/2 months old. She took him to the animal hospital to get his front paws declawed. The vet called her back and said she could not perform the surgery because the kitten had an abnormally high heart rate (around 250 beats per minute) and that he had a very loud murmur. The vet said putting him under could cause him to die and that she should take him to a cardiologist. She said without medicine, the kitten most likely will not live past a year old but that there’s a chance the medicine wont work. Petsmart told my mom she can return the kitten and they’ll take care of him and put him out for adoption again with a known heart condition. I told my mom that Petsmart should be paying for a cardiologist his medicine as she’s had him less than a week, he’s already been neutered so there’s no way they couldn’t have known about the condition as they would have examined him. What should she do? My mom doesn’t want to give him up

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:42:54 GMT