<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the <b>Bay of Plenty Times</b> (Tauranga, New Zealand) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11111557">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11111557</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><h1 class="left restrictHeading" id="commentHeadline" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px !important; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: Stag-Serif-Medium, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s, border-color, opacity; width: 440px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); text-align: left; ">Cat gets saved with dog's blood</h1></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blood from a labrador has saved a cat in a "very, very uncommon" veterinary procedure.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tauranga's Kim Edwards said she rushed her 7-year-old moggie Rory to the vet after she heard awful howls.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said Rory was "obviously in a lot of pain", was limp and could not move.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On taking him to Tauranga Vets, Ms Edwards was told it was likely Rory had somehow eaten rat poison.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The prognosis was not good and she was told that Rory could die.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a last-ditch effort to save him, Ms Edwards was given two options, one of which was a blood transfusion from another cat.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We didn't have enough time to find another cat with a blood match, if the blood didn't match then Rory would have died," she said.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other option was to do a blood transfusion from a dog.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We were told that Rory would most likely reject the blood but we would have had about five days for this to happen, which meant we would have had time to find a blood match in a cat."</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color, background-color, border-color, opacity; "></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms Edwards said when she contacted a friend from her book club, who had a pet labrador, initially her strange request was not believed.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The scenario was dramatic, and Maci, the black lab, was rushed in for an emergency transfusion, she said.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vet Kate Heller said Rory had eaten rat poison and wouldn't have survived without being given an immediate blood transfusion.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; text-align: left; "></p><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, his blood type was unknown and using the wrong type would have proved fatal.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Inter-species blood transfusions were not common, nor recommended, Ms Heller said.</span></font></div><p></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's not something we've done before, but it was one of those emergency situations where we didn't have any other options available.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We didn't have much time, so we either had to do it and hope it would work or watch Rory die," she said.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We phoned the animal blood bank in Palmerston North and they talked us through the procedure."</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While the transfusion was not without risk, the owners were aware of what was involved and that Rory would die without it.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So there really was nothing to lose in going ahead.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It was a 'do or die'.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I've never heard of it before, but the guy at the companion animal blood bank said he's done it before with some success.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"People are going to think that it sounds pretty dodgy - and it is - but hey, we've been successful and it's saved its life.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's very, very uncommon," Ms Heller said.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before the transfusion, Rory was "really flat and gasping and howling" and one hour later he was sitting up, purring and "tucked into a bowl of biscuits," Ms Edwards said.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He seemed to be a different cat.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The vets just went above and beyond ... it's incredible that it worked.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Rory is back to normal and we don't have a cat that barks or fetch the paper."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; text-align: left; "></p><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Dog to cat blood transfusions</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cats don't have pre-formed antibodies for dog blood, so the chances of having a fatal reaction to it are smaller.</span></font></div><p></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blood from any young, healthy dog from a large breed was suitable.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kim Edwards with her cat Rory and Michelle Whitmore and her dog Maci. The dog provided blood for Rory when he was sick.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s, background-color, border-color, opacity; "><img src="cid:E93120CC-2FF8-4587-9029-F47CBD81FD24" alt="SCCZEN_200813jf44bop_460x230.jpg" id="E93120CC-2FF8-4587-9029-F47CBD81FD24" width="460" height="230"></p><p></p><p></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>