Andrew (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} saintless) wrote in gun_hee, |
Anjin was great, his nick name was tail-sucker. He was very protective of my wife too; when I wasn't home he would growl at the window when strangers walked by the apartment. He also liked to play fetch!
Warning! This gets a bit sad at the end:
Anjin died of some sort of auto-immune disease, we noticed his health deteriorating over several months as he got more and more lethargic. We took him to the vet thinking he was depressed. The vet drew a blood sample and immediately grew concerned when she realized how thin his blood was, she didn't even want to wait on the blood test and told me to take him to an animal hospital on the other side of town immediately. By the next morning I had already spent about $1400 on testing, a blood transfusion and other fees; they told me it was incredible that he was still alive his red blood cell count was soo low. Over the next couple of months Anjin was on prednisone and required several more blood transfusions, eventually it became clear that he wasn't recovering. I was in the Navy when he died, and stuck out at sea. My wife was home, up late cleaning when she heard a loud thud from the bedroom. Anjin had fallen off the bed, and was too weak to pull himself on top of his favorite pillow. Carrie took him to the 24hour vet and stayed with him until he fell asleep.
Bad Breeding: His brother had medical issues as well and had surgery to remove tissue from his nasal cavity that was preventing him from breathing correctly, but has otherwise continued to live in good health and hasn't had any other issues.
We realized that the breeder was at fault when we started going to cat shows looking for Nico. Anjin was bought at a local vet and didn't have any official pedigree paperwork. When we started going to cat shows and we relayed our story about Anjin to other breeders we were asked by several if we "happened to buy Anjin from a particular Doctor Bob Vanderpool." Sure enough, our "breeder" had a reputation among the Aby breeders who actually participated in NW shows, they called him "coupon-Bob" due to his advertising in the Sunday paper and craigslist. It turns out that several people had spoken to the cat-show breeders about health problems including several cases of premature deaths from Aby's that coupon-Bob bred.
After we became familiar with breeding practices we realized that Bob was pricing his cats low ($400 vs the $6-700 that others in the area were charging), the other warning that something was wrong was the fact that he claimed that the breeding business was "his wife's," and he was just selling them from his veterinarian location on her behalf (we never met the parents or saw the location where the cats were bred), we just assumed that he was a legitimate breeder because we never bought a pure-bred before and he was a veterinarian after all.
Warning! This gets a bit sad at the end:
Anjin died of some sort of auto-immune disease, we noticed his health deteriorating over several months as he got more and more lethargic. We took him to the vet thinking he was depressed. The vet drew a blood sample and immediately grew concerned when she realized how thin his blood was, she didn't even want to wait on the blood test and told me to take him to an animal hospital on the other side of town immediately. By the next morning I had already spent about $1400 on testing, a blood transfusion and other fees; they told me it was incredible that he was still alive his red blood cell count was soo low. Over the next couple of months Anjin was on prednisone and required several more blood transfusions, eventually it became clear that he wasn't recovering. I was in the Navy when he died, and stuck out at sea. My wife was home, up late cleaning when she heard a loud thud from the bedroom. Anjin had fallen off the bed, and was too weak to pull himself on top of his favorite pillow. Carrie took him to the 24hour vet and stayed with him until he fell asleep.
Bad Breeding: His brother had medical issues as well and had surgery to remove tissue from his nasal cavity that was preventing him from breathing correctly, but has otherwise continued to live in good health and hasn't had any other issues.
We realized that the breeder was at fault when we started going to cat shows looking for Nico. Anjin was bought at a local vet and didn't have any official pedigree paperwork. When we started going to cat shows and we relayed our story about Anjin to other breeders we were asked by several if we "happened to buy Anjin from a particular Doctor Bob Vanderpool." Sure enough, our "breeder" had a reputation among the Aby breeders who actually participated in NW shows, they called him "coupon-Bob" due to his advertising in the Sunday paper and craigslist. It turns out that several people had spoken to the cat-show breeders about health problems including several cases of premature deaths from Aby's that coupon-Bob bred.
After we became familiar with breeding practices we realized that Bob was pricing his cats low ($400 vs the $6-700 that others in the area were charging), the other warning that something was wrong was the fact that he claimed that the breeding business was "his wife's," and he was just selling them from his veterinarian location on her behalf (we never met the parents or saw the location where the cats were bred), we just assumed that he was a legitimate breeder because we never bought a pure-bred before and he was a veterinarian after all.
