The Comfort of Capitalism

WHEN I TOOK my two kittens, mandi and jake, to be spayed and neutered, respectively, i was scared and upset when i got them home, because they acted groggy, sore, no appetite, as if they didn't feel well in general.

I even freaked out over mandi, my baby girl, and called the vet, who scratched her head and assured me that in thirty years of fixing cats, tens of thousands of cats, there had never been  a problem, and no sir, she didn't think there was one now, but, feel free to call back, anytime, just in case, um... Of course they snapped right out of it in a day or two,; i never had anything to worry about.

The vet didn't say anything to me after each of the operations, no post op care instructions, nothing. I heard that in the past, people were told to try to keep their pets quiet and still for awhile after the surgery, and to let your cats use a litter box with shredded paper instead of gravel, to guard against infection.

But they don't do that anymore, because they have eliminated the need. The vets now use stitches which naturally dissolve and nourish the wound whlie so doing; there is no longer the slightest risk of infection or post op bleeding, largely due to free market demand on the part of pet owners.

The same thought occured to me this past christmas during my great "de con" scare. I took my two cats with me to visit my mother, and they had been running happily all over her house, when i discovered to my horror that mom had little trays of blue de con pellets hidden in corners.

a couple of the trays had been disturbed, and i freaked out wondering whether my cats had tried to taste the stuff. i spent an evening watching them to see if they displayed rabid thirst, and started bleeing from the mouth, so i could rush them to an all night animal hospital if i had to.

fortunatelly nothing happened. and the  thought occured to me that de con is a product manufactured by a large company, and widely sold, and that if it were possible for cats to eat and die from eating decon, then by now thousands of cats would have been victimized, and the de con people would be sued into existencelessness.

comforted by the realities of our glorious american free market economic system. i never had to freak out at all about my beloved pets. by now, due to free markdt demand, de con is made so that cats and dogs can't stand to even look at or smell the stuff, much less eat it. I'm glaid i thought of that. I wish i'd thought of it sooner.