Amazing Little Juicebox Overcomes Not Only a Near Fatal Mauling at the Hands of His Owners' Dog but also Penury and Being Cruelly Abandoned to Shift for Himself Inside the Snake Pit World of Veterinary Medicine

The Dog Chewed Up Juicebox's Face

"He has obviously been through and survived a serious trauma, but he has adapted quickly to the sutures that limit the use of his jaw and, through it all, he's remained an outgoing, playful and really friendly cat."

 -- Victoria Odynsky of the MSPCA

Most everyone is acutely aware of just how lethal unleashed and unsupervised dogs can be to kittens and cats. Not only do these neighborhood terrorists chase down and kill those that are allowed to venture out onto the streets but they also trespass into private gardens in order to carry out their savage attacks. (See Cat Defender posts of October 28, 2013, September 29, 2019, and July 1, 2021 entitled, respectively, "Slow to Recuperate from Life-Threatening Injuries Sustained in a Savage Mauling by an Unleashed Dog, Stubbs Announces His Intention to Step Down as Mayor of Talkeetna," "Sparkle Is Killed on the Front Stoop of Her House by an Unleashed Dog in the Latest of Centuries-Old Deadly Attacks That Bear the Unmistakable Imprimatur of the House of Commons," and "Fourteen- Year-Old Mini Is Ripped to Shreds by a Pack of Vicious Hounds but Those Responsible Never Will Be Punished Because the Limeys Value the 'Unspeakable in Full Support of the Uneatable' Far More Than They Do Her Right to Live.")

Moreover, it is not only lawless private individuals who allow their dogs to engage in this type of behavior but cops as well. (See Cat Defender post of July 2, 2015 entitled "After Allowing One of Their Dogs to Maul McGuire to Within an Inch of His Life, the Toronto Police Do Not Have Even the Common Decency to Summon Veterinary Help for Him.)"   

Owners who get their perverted kicks by deliberately siccing their dogs on cats are an even greater menace. (See Cat Defender posts of October 18, 2009, October 23, 2009, March 24, 2010, and July 18, 2015 entitled, respectively, "Minneapolis Is Working Overtime Trying to Kill an Octogenarian's Cat Named Hoppy for Defending His Turf Against Canine Intruders," "As Essex Welfare Bum Who Sicced His Dog on Cats and Beat Them with His Cane Is Now Pretending to Be the Victim of an Assault," "Seven-Month-Old Bailey Is Fed to a Lurcher by a Group of Sadistic Teens in Search of Cheap Thrills in Northern Ireland," and "A Blackpudlian Thrill Seeker Who Sicced Her Pit Bull on Regi and Then Laughed Off Her Fat Ass as He Tore Him Apart Receives a Customary Clean Bill of Health from the Courts," plus the New York Post, January 25, 2021 " 'Mayor' of New York City Housing Authority Complex -- Cat Named Tuxedo -- Is Killed by Pit Bulls.")

All of that is common knowledge but that which is considerably less publicized is the myriad of near fatal maulings and outright killings that canines perpetrate against cats behind closed doors in private residences. 

Ever so often, however, the veils of secrecy which shroud these little known crimes from the prying eyes of the public slip in order to reveal the ugly and terrifying truth.

One such disturbing event occurred on January 20th when a handsome seven-month-old orange kitten named Juicebox was mauled to within an inch of his young life by his owners' resident canine. None of the particulars have been publicly disclosed but it is believed that the savage attack occurred within the family's residence. It likewise is not known if Juicebox's owners were home at the time of the attack and, if so, what if anything that they did in order to stop it.

Left bloodied and bruised with his face, mouth, and throat chewed up, Juicebox was in grave danger of dying long before he had even begun to fully live and therefore desperately needed a huge break if he were going  to pull through and thus make it to adulthood and that bit of Glück im Unglück occurred when he was delivered to the Massachusetts SPCA's (MSPCA) Angell Animal Center at 350 Huntington Avenue in Boston. Presumably, it was his owners who performed that act of mercy; otherwise, he owes his life to an unidentified Good Samaritan.

Upon arrival, the blood was cleaned up from his face and he was administered antibiotics, painkillers and, perhaps, intravenous fluids and a blood transfusion as well. After that diagnostic tests, such as radiographs, disclosed that he had have sustained multiple fractures of his tiny jaw and lacerations to his face and the palate in the roof of his mouth as well as unspecified head trauma. He additionally sans doute was in excruciating pain and perhaps even shock.

Once the surgeons had stabilized his condition, they next trained their attention on the dilemma of how best to put his mouth and jaw back together. Thanks to the innovative thinking of Dr. Alice Ekerdt of the surgery's dentistry staff, they decided upon anchoring the sutures in a quartet of colorful plastic buttons. 

Toward that end, a green and a red button were sewn into his cheeks. Another green and a red one were likewise sewn into the underside of his chin. Wires were added in order to hold the entire shebang together and he was outfitted with an Elizabethan collar so as to prevent him from pawing his face and thus undoing the veterinarians' handiwork.

"The buttons are attached to wires on both sides of his cheeks. And the buttons hold the sutures in place," Rob Halpin of the MSPCA explained to CNN on February 14th. (See "Cat Has Plastic Buttons Sewn to Its Face after a Dog Attack.") "But they also hold the jaw in place, so that it tracks while it heals."

Writing on Facebook, another member of the staff at the MSPCA gave a slightly different version of how the procedure is designed to work. "With certain types of fractures in specific areas of the jaw, like the type that poor Juicebox suffered, the fracture can be difficult to stabilize, and in some cases other implants can be difficult to size," that unidentified writer conceded. "The suture is what actually holds the jaw in place; the buttons improve comfort and prevent the suture from digging into the skin."

While there cannot be any denying the vital roles played by the sutures and buttons in the healing process, it  would appear that it is actually the wires that hold the jaw in place while it heals. After all, merely sewing up a kitten's face would hardly be sufficient even if the sutures were anchored in plastic buttons. Furthermore, there certainly is not anything new about wiring up the jaws of both animals and humans who have suffered fractures.

Regardless of the dynamics of the procedure, the important thing is that it worked so well that soon thereafter the MSPCA was able to get Juicebox out of his cage and into foster care. Best of all, on February 19th the charity was able to proudly announce that the buttons, and presumably the wires as well, had been removed and that he was "healing well." (See heavy.com of Manhattan, February 21, 2021, "Seven-Month-Old-Kitten Goes Viral after Plastic Buttons Sewn onto Face.") 

Owing to his tender years, he easily could have been killed by the dog but ironically it turned out to have been that same liability that aided him in his recovery. "Younger animals tend to heal a little bit quicker, just like younger humans do," Halpin testified to CNN.

Even so the month that he was forced spend with his jaw sewn and wired up surely must have been an exceedingly agonizing time for him. For instance, in addition to all the discomfort and inability to use his jaw and mouth, he had to be fed a liquid diet through either a straw, tube, or syringe. He in all probability also was placed on an intravenous regimen of fluids and vitamins.

Juicebox with Buttons Sewn into the Side of His Nose

Despite all the pain and suffering, Juicebox would appear to have come through his terrible ordeal as well as could be expected under the circumstances. "He has obviously been through and survived a serious trauma, but he has adapted quickly to the sutures that limit the use of his jaw and, through it all, he's remained an outgoing, playful and really friendly cat," Victoria Odynsky of the MSPCA marveled to MassLive of Springfield on February 9th. (See "MSPCA-Angell in Boston Uses Plastic Buttons to Help Kitten Heal after Dog Attack.") "We are relieved that we are able to provide urgent medical care for him, and we're glad to see him recovering so well."

Halpin fully concurred. "He's very social. He's very confident," he added to CNN. "And you know, he acts no worse for wear."

The charity's long-term goal was to get him out of foster care as soon as possible and into a new, canine-free home. Despite that latter restriction, at least one-hundred-fifty individuals had expressed an interest in adopting him by early February. Unfortunately, nothing further has appeared online concerning him so it has not proven possible to determine what ultimately has happened to him.

Nevertheless, his jaw and facial lacerations should have healed by now. The damage done to his palate remains a concern as does any undisclosed injuries that he may have sustained to his mouth and teeth.

If the veterinarians at the MSPCA have not abandoned him to his own devices but rather have elected to always keep the welcome mat out for him, he hopefully will be able to make a full recovery. There cannot be any denying, however, that he has had an extremely close call and is indeed lucky to still be alive.

As far as it is known, no charges ever were filed against his previous owners even though they clearly are as guilty as sin of gross negligence. In addition to perhaps holding them accountable under the law, it is possible that the courts might have justifiably banned them from acquiring any additional kittens and cats.

Even more urgently, since kittens not only generally come in litters but also have mothers and fathers, if the MSPCA has not done so already it should act immediately in order to permanently remove any and all other cats and kittens from the home. It furthermore would be sorely remiss if it did not open an investigation into the breed, temperament, and past history of Juicebox's attacker.

That is because it is entirely possible that the dog could be a threat to humans as well as cats. Although most people, especially dog owners, could care less how many cats that their dogs maul and kill, if Juicebox's attacker should some day go after either an adult or a child the MSPCA could have a lot of explaining to do.

Not only did Juicebox's former owners fail to protect him from the machinations of their dog but they also stuck the MSPCA with his more than US$2,000 veterinary bill. Considering that it was precisely their negligence that not only nearly cost him his life but also landed him at the MSPCA in the first place, they should have been more than happy to have paid for his treatment. Their cheapness has in turn forced the MSPCA to go begging to the general public for help in satisfying it.  

Their ingratitude is especially appalling in that the MSPCA let them off dirt cheap. Disbelievers need only to try and procure emergency veterinary care for their injured and sickly cats in order to realize just how badly that just about all practitioners stick it to them.

For starters, they charge an entrance fee of between US$150 and $US200. So-called supportive care, such as the administration of intravenous fluids and the placing of their cats on heating pads, can quickly add another US$300 to US$400 to their tabs.

The sods' real moneymakers, however, are the slew of mostly worthless diagnostic tests, such as radiographs, MRIs, CT scans, and complete blood counts, that they administer over and over again. If they are so valuable, why is it that in most instances the practitioners are unable (or unwilling?) to make diagnoses based upon them? 

 

Hospitalization runs to in excess of US$30 per night with the veterinarians tacking on exorbitant fees not only for the food that they give to the cats (whether they are willing to eat it or not) but also for the disposal of feces, urine, soiled gauze, and syringes. They are not even the least bit shy about charging an arm and a leg for cheap, plastic pill-poppers. It has not been confirmed, but the rumor mill has it that veterinarians are considering charging owners US$50 for every time that their cats sneeze and another US$100 every time that they so much as look askance at them.

Most vitally of all, it is doubtful that Juicebox's former owners even realize just how lucky that they were to have brought him to the MSPCA because it is without a doubt one of the very few veterinary surgeries in the country that is willing to, at least occasionally, treat injured and sickly cats without first being paid several hundred dollars in advance. Distraught owners can weep, wail, cajole, and beg all that they like but veterinarians do not have so much as a scintilla of compassion in their black hearts for either their sentiments or the sanctity of all feline life.  (See Cat Defender posts of July 16, 2010 and March 19, 2014 entitled, respectively, "Tossed Out the Window of a Car Like an Empty Beer Can, an Injured Chattanooga Kitten Is Left to Die after at Least Two Veterinarians Refused to Treat It" and "The Cheap and Greedy Moral Degenerates at PennVet Extend Their Warmest Christmas Greetings to an Impecunious, but Preeminently Treatable, Cat Via a Jab of Sodium Pentobarbital.") 

Even those guardians with moola to burn are not in all that much better shape; they are just bigger suckers. That is owing to the reality that all their cats ever receive in return for the wheelbarrows of greenbacks that they so gladly fork over to these charlatans are some small measure of supportive care, an array of worthless diagnostic tests, and a few nights in the infirmary.

Two Other Buttons Were Sewn into the Underside of His Chin

In the end, their beloved companions almost always die without their grief stricken owners ever receiving so much as a solitary clue as to what had ailed them. Even worse, their cats are forced to spend their final days being unmercifully poked and probed, bandied about from surgery to surgery and, in many cases, back and forth between the homes of veterinary attendants. Half of the time their worried to death owners are unable to find out even where they are, let alone if they are still alive.

Once owners finally get fed up with those cruel shenanigans and categorically refuse to give the con artists any more money, they pull out their trump card by generously offering to take their cats off of their hands by killing them for another US$300. Those conscientious owners who do not want any part of such barbarism are next subjected to a tug-of-war over the custody of their cats by veterinarians who refuse to relinquish custody of them unless they first sign forms absolving them of all liability.

In some instances, owners have been forced into calling in the gendarmes in order to get their cats returned to them. Individuals may naïvely believe that they are well acquainted with all the dishonesty, greed, and lawlessness that lurks in the hearts of men but they are in for another thought once they have locked horns with American veterinarians who, by comparison, make the mafia look like a society of gentlemen.

To be fair about the matter, most of them are capable of successfully inoculating cats although vaccine associated sarcomas are a major concern.  Also, being the consummate bloodsuckers that they are, they rake in a pretty penny by conning owners into shelling out for a wide array of totally unnecessary vaccinations.

Some of them are likewise capable of spaying and neutering cats but even then they botch an alarming number of these rather simple procedures. (See Cat Defender posts of February 26, 2008, July 2, 2010, and July 28, 2011 entitled, respectively, "The Dark Side of Spay and Neuter: Veterinarian Botched Surgeries and Back Alley Castrations Claim the Live of Numerous Cats," "Lexi Was by No Means the First Cat to Be Lost by Woosehill Vets Any More Than Angel Was Their Last Victim of a Botched Sterilization," and "Tammy and Maddy Are Forced to Pay the Ultimate Price after Their Owner and an Incompetent Veterinarian Elect to Play Russian Roulette with Their Lives," plus The Lancashire Telegraph, July 21, 2012, "Chorley Cat Is Neutered Twice" plus the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, February 18, 2013, "SPCA Accused of Neutering Stray Cat Twice," and the Lippische Landes Zeitung of Detmold, September 22, 2013, "Fünfzehn-jähriger kastrierter Kater von Unbekannten weggefangen und sterilisiert.") 

Although they contribute absolutely nothing to the safety and well-being of cats, veterinarians have been lightning-quick to cash in on the microchippng craze that has been sweeping the world in recent decades. Predictably, they could care less about either the efficacy, safety, or their ability to successfully implant and properly service these devices. (See Cat Defender posts of May 25, 2006, September 21, 2007, November 6, 2010, April 28, 2016, June 23, 2016, and January 24, 2017 entitled, respectively, "Plato's Misadventures Expose the Pitfalls of RFID Technology as Applied to Cats," "The FDA Is Suppressing Research That Shows Implanted Microchips Cause Cancer in Mice, Rats, and Dogs," "Bulkin Contracts Cancer from an Implanted Microchip and Now It Is Time for Digital Angel ® and Merck to Answer for Their Crimes in a Court of Law," "Sassie Is Left Paralyzed as the Result of Yet Still Another Horribly Botched Attempt to Implant a Thoroughly Worthless and Pernicious Microchip Between Her Shoulders," "The State of North Carolina's Veterinary Division Is Covering Up a Savage Beating Dished Out to Cooper at the Rowan County Animal Shelter During the Course of a Microchipping Fiasco," and "Tigger Is Finally Reunited with His Family Despite the Best Efforts of the Administrators of a Microchip Database to Keep Them Apart.")

Taking a cat to a veterinarian for almost anything else, especially emergency treatment, is usually an expensive and exasperating waste of time. For example, some practitioners are so incompetent as to be unable to even properly set a broken leg.

A large part of the problem lies in the petit fait that they, like college professors, are some of the laziest sods on the planet. Specifically, it is only rarely that the person whose name is on the shingle outside is actually on the job inside; rather, the bulk of the labor is delegated to part-time veterinary assistants, substitute practitioners, and almost any flunky and imbecile who might be handy.

Complaining to watchdog groups about incompetent and dishonest veterinarians is about as futile as going to the Better Business Bureau about fraudulent merchants. (See Cat Defender posts of June 17, 2010 and January 19, 2012 entitled, respectively, "A Veterinarian Gets Away with Almost Killing Felix but Is Nailed by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for Not Paying Her Dues" and "A Veterinary Watchdog Group Not Only Allows an Incompetent Substitute Practitioner to Get Away with Killing Junior but Scolds His Owner for Complaining.")

If additional evidence of the veterinary medical profession's ingrained hatred of all cats and the utter contempt that its members harbor in their malignant bosoms for their owners were still needed, one has only to look to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) of Schaumburg, Illinois, which fervently believes that all homeless cats should be rounded up and killed. "The AVMA strongly supports reducing and controlling the number of free-roaming abandoned and feral cats through humane capture by local health departments, humane societies, and Animal Control agencies," the organization reaffirmed in 2016 as its official policy. "Free-roaming abandoned and feral cats that are not in properly managed colonies should be removed from the environment and treated in the same manner as other abandoned and stray animals in accordance with local and state ordinances." (See AVMA Press Release of February 10, 2016, "AWMA Revises Policy on Feral Cats to Encourage Collaboration" and AVMA.org, an undated article entitled "Free-Roaming Abandoned and Feral Cats.")

As if all of that were not already abhorrent enough, the bloodthirsty organization speaks with a forked tongue on the subject of TNR. "For colonies not achieving attrition and posing active threats to the area in which they are residing the AVMA does not oppose the consideration of euthanasia when conducted by qualified personnel using appropriate methods as described in the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals," it added in its 2016 anti-cat manifesto.

That pronouncement quickly garnered the endorsement of the American Association of Feline Practitioners in Bridgewater, New Jersey, the American Animal Hospital Association in Lakewood, Colorado, and Partners for Healthy Pets from parts unknown. The only thing that they even took mild exception to was the AVMA's clarion call for the killing off of TNR colonies "not achieving attrition and posing active threats to the area in which they are residing."

Often overlooked amidst the AVMA's morally despicable and totally indefensible bellowing about homeless cats is the even more sobering reality that its ingrained loathing for the species also extends to those that have owners. First of all, it is in full agreement with the cats indoors agenda of the American Bird Conservancy in The Plains, Virginia. 

Secondly, its policy that TNR colonies and, by extension, all cats be forcibly removed from wildlife-sensitive areas is taken right out of the pages of the playbooks of ornithologists and wildlife biologists. Thirdly, the organization is an exponent of sterilizing the species out of existence.

Fourthly, it advocates starving to death those cats that have not been sterilized by outlawing the public feeding of them. Fifthly, the AVMA desires to bring the entire species under the tyrannical control of Big Brother through its endorsement of compulsory microchipping.

Juicebox in Foster Care but Still With His Buttons and Collar

Sixthly, it wants to  criminalize the abandonment of cats and thereby to force owners into surrendering their unwanted companions at shelters and veterinary offices whereby they can be expeditiously dispatched to the devil. Once the AVMA's policies are properly analyzed it becomes perfectly clear that the only use that it and its members have for cats is the money that they can swindle out of their owners.

There are not many dissenters within the ranks of the veterinary medical profession but a handful of them  do exist. (See Cat Defender post of May 16, 2006 entitled "Five Kansas City Veterinarians Break Ranks with the American Veterinary Medical Association in Order to Defend Cats Against Bird Advocates, Wildlife Proponents, and Exterminators.")

Despite their ingrained disdain for cats of all socio-economic designations, veterinarians have not let that prejudice stand in their way of lining their pockets. For instance, although their haul from the administration of vaccinations, sterilizations, and the implantation of microchips is substantial, it is believed to pale in comparison with what they rake in by killing cats. (See Cat Defender posts of April 8, 2018 and October 27, 2020 entitled, respectively, "A Rare Behind the Scenes Glimpse at the Ruthless Murders of Two Cats by an Indiana Veterinarian Exposes All Those Who Claim That Lethal Injections Are Humane to Be Barefaced Liars" and "Noble and Courageous Harvey Who So Desperately Wanted to Go on Living Is Instead Unforgivably Betrayed and Killed Off by His Foster Mother and Yorkshire Cat Rescue.")

It accordingly is long overdue that someone pointed out that just as there is a huge difference between operating an extermination factory and dubbing it a shelter, there likewise is a world of difference between presiding over the operation of a slaughterhouse for cats and labeling it an animal hospital.  

Topping off this cruel charade veterinarians, aided and abetted by the loathsome capitalistic media, have the infuriating audacity to chastise owners for not allowing them to get their grubby hands on their cats more often. Wonder why? Could it possibly have something to do with the cavalier, dishonest, unethical, and morally bankrupt manner in which that they treat all cats and their owners?

The veterinary medical profession's outrageous shortchanging of cats and their owners is by no means confined to business hours but rather it also extends into after-hours as well. In particular, although surgeries seem to almost always be able to get their canine patients safely out whenever conflagrations erupt, they at the same time routinely allow their feline patients to be burned to death.

For instance, that is what happened to six cats who were interned at the Falconbridge Animal Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, during the early days of August of 2019. By contrast, the practitioners pulled to safety fifteen dogs and one bearded dragon. (See WRAL-TV of Raleigh, August 6, 2019, "Fire Rekindles at Durham Animal Hospital after Six Cats Die.")

That problem is even more pronounced at shelters. For exanmple, on June 9th Tierheim Wannigsmühle in Münnerstadt, three-hundred-nineteen kilometers north of München in Unterfranken, Bayern, got all of its canine inmates safely out but inexcusably left forty-nine of its cats behind to be burned alive. (See RTL of Köln, June 11, 2021, "Neunundvierzig Katzen sterben in den Flammen -- jetzt bittet das Tierheim Spenden" und in Franken of Bamberg, June 14, 2021, "'Sind uberwältigt': Nach Brand mit neunundvierzig toten Katzen -- Tierheim veröffentlicht emotionales Statement.")

Even this nation's veterinary schools, which are responsible for churning out these moneygrubbing moral degenerates, are little more than cesspools of outrageous abuse and exploitation where cats are routinely experimented upon and dissected for fun. Even the so-called scholarly papers that their professors so profusely produce amount to little more than cleverly dressed-up prejudices and outright lies.

For example, Mikel Delgado, Melissa Bain, and Brandon Han of the veterinary school at the University of California at Davis recently published a paper on the dietary habits of seventeen of the many cats that they are holding hostage and hideously abusing in their laboratories. Specifically, the cats were presented with the choice of either dining from a tray of prepared food or laboring to get their nourishment out a so-called food puzzle. As unbelievable as it may sound, the all-knowing eggheads expressed surprise that the cats chose the former.

"There is an entire body of research that shows that most species including birds, rodents, wolves, primates -- even giraffes -- prefer to work for their food," Delgado burped in an August 9th press release issued by the degree mill. (See "Cats Prefer to Get Free Meals Rather Than to Work for Them.") "What's surprising is out of these species cats seem to be the only ones that showed no strong tendency to contrafreeload."

First of all, any remotely savvy cat owner could have told them that and Maddie's Fund of Pleasanton, California, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, which footed the bill for this study, could have thus saved their precious shekels and told the greedy, good-for-nothing professors to have gone out and gotten real jobs for a change. Much more importantly, with millions of cats being systematically exterminated each year in the United States by shelters, Animal Control officers, veterinarians, the cops, and others, it is a rather telling indictment of the phony-baloney Maddie's Fund that it would much prefer to spend its money keeping the bums at UC-Davis in clover as opposed to putting it toward saving feline lives.

Secondly, it is very epitome of dishonesty for the eggheads to fail to point out the really significant implication of this study. Namely, that it is a repudiation of the outrageous lie disseminated so freely by ornithologists, wildlife biologists, and other assorted despisers of the species that cats are demonic killing machines who prefer to waste their time chasing down and killing small animals as opposed to eating the meals specially prepared for them and served to them on silver platters by their caretakers. 

Furthermore, as all practitioners of TNR know only so well, the cats that are patiently waiting for them to arrive each morning and evening in order to be fed are certainly not out hunting. The same holds true for those of them that spend their days lounging around in their owners' gardens without so much as a thought of chasing down their sustenance ever crossing their minds.

By deliberately failing to point out those rather obvious facts Delgado, Bain, and Han have not only tacitly endorsed the outrageous lies spread by ornithologists and wildlife biologists but also seized upon an opportunity to libel all cats as being lazy and freeloaders. Furthermore, considering that those charges are being leveled by a trio of consummate bums who have never done so much as a minute of honest work in their miserable lives really takes the cake.

Juicebox with the Buttons Out and Ready for a New Life

Rather, they live off of the tons of welfare money that the federal government so generously doles out to them and the degree mills that employ them. Plus, they flimflam billions more out of naïve students and their parents through the sale of their utterly worthless classes and degrees.

The additionally feed off of the billions that UC-Davis rakes in each year from its corrupt-as-hell athletic programs and through various admissions' scandals. Most reprehensible of all, the professors live high on the hog off of all the money that they make by experimenting upon and, ultimately killing, countless cats and other innocent and defenseless animals.

If there were so much as a scintilla of justice in this world the tables would be turned on them and they would be the ones in the cages being poked and probed, injected with deadly drugs, and having holes drilled in their warped noggins. Best of all, instead of dining like kings and queens all the time, big shits like Delgado, Bain, and Han would be forced into coaxing meager existences out of food puzzles.

If there is any value at all in education it lies in the ability of a liberal arts education to ennoble the soul and thereby instill in individuals an abiding respect for Mother Earth, the animals and, as far as it is possible, their fellow human beings. On the other hand, the degree mills, such as UC-Davis, churn out nothing but cat abusers and killers, liars, bums, and other assorted egotistical low-lives who fervently believe that the world owes them everything whereas the only thing that they in turn owe to either anyone or anything is the middle finger.

Furthermore, like all veterinary schools as well as the vast majority of degree mills, UC-Davis has a long and checkered history of abusing, killing, and defaming cats. (See Cat Defender post of March 3, 2006 entitled "A Cat-Hating Professor at UC-Davis and the BBC Call for the Extermination of Seventy-Eight Million Feral Felines.") 

It is not about to happen anytime soon but perhaps individuals of bon sens will one day wake up and realize that that the eggheads and the capitalistic degree mills that they pimp and whore for are a blight not only upon all truth and common decency but injurious to civilization as well. Worst of all, these thoroughly rotten and dishonest charlatans of the ivory tower are never satisfied unless they are abusing, killing, and defaming cats. (See Cat Defender posts of July 18, 2011 and October 9, 2015 entitled, respectively, "Evil Professors Have Transformed College Campuses into Hotbeds of Hatred Where Cats Routinely Are Vilified, Horribly Abused, and Systematically Killed" and "A Lynch Mob of Dishonest Eggheads from the University of Lincoln Issues Another Scurrilous Broadside Against Cats by Declaring That They Do Not Need Guardians in Order to Safeguard Their Lives.")

It is little known to the outside world but veterinary schools and independent practitioners alike are also big-time drug dealers. For example, between 2007 and 2017 the amount of opioids prescribed by the veterinarians who strut and preen for the University of Pennsylvania's Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital for Small Animals in Philadelphia increased by 41.2 per cent.

By comparison, visits by pets to that hideously overpriced opium den grew by only 12.8 per cent. The numbers are nothing short of staggering. Specifically, over the course of that ten-year period the veterinarians wrote prescriptions for a total of 105,183,689 tablets of tramadol, 97,547 tablets of hydrocodone, 38,939 tablets of codeine, and 3,153 fentanyl patches.

Although it is estimated that the opioid crisis has claimed the lives of more than half a million Americans, no one has even bothered to look into the matter of how many cats, dogs, and other small animals that practitioners at PennVet and elsewhere across the country have sent to early graves by poisoning their tiny bodies with opioids and other narcotics. That petit fait alone demonstrates conclusively just how little that veterinarians value the lives and well-being of cats and dogs. (See the Daily Pennsylvanian of the University of Pennsylvania, January 28, 2019, "Penn Vet (sic) Study Finds Increase in Pet Opioid Prescriptions over Past Decade.") 

Like PennVet, Long Island veterinarian Elizabette Cohen is an old hand when it comes to doping up cats and dogs. Not only does she do it in her practice but she has been attempting to convince the listeners of the "Healthy and Happy Pet" segments that she does every Saturday and Sunday on WCBS Radio 880 AM out of Manhattan of the wisdom of following her example. 

Furthermore, since she has been running her mouth on the air ever since 2004, the suits at CBS quite obviously agree with her. It thus is fair to conclude that neither she nor CBS have any more scruples than does the Sackler family which not only has pocketed tens of billions of dollars by doping up America but is to this very day still laughing all the way to the bank. (See the two-part HBO documentary entitled "The Crime of the Century.")

The picture therefore is crystal clear for all to see: the entire veterinary medical profession from soup to nuts is about as ailurophobic as anyone or organization can get without being either an ornithologist, a wildlife biologist, or a card-carrying member of scum-of-the- earth PETA. If that is the bad news, the good news is that there is a way out of this totally untenable predicament.

First of all, owners need to learn everything that they can about not only keeping their cats healthy and safe but treating them as well. Secondly, such essentials as heating pads, catheters, scalpels, syringes, needles, intravenous fluids, x-ray machines, und so weiter, can be obtained from medical supply stores and after that it should not be too difficult for them to set up makeshift surgeries in their homes.

Thirdly, although obtaining the prerequisite drugs, such as powerful antibiotics that are required in order to successfully treat ailing cats, is a huge obstacle to overcome, there is always the black market. Besides, given that there are plenty of individuals practicing veterinary medicine today for profit but without licenses, there certainly is not anything wrong with owners doing likewise is order to prolong and save their companions' lives. 

In fact, some pet owners have already turned to unlicensed veterinarians in order to escape the exorbitant fees demanded by their licensed counterparts. (See Cat Defender post of February 14, 2006 entitled "Special Agent Fred the Cat Goes Undercover in Order to Help Nab a Quack Vet in a Brooklyn Sting Operation.")

Photos: Massachusetts SPCA.