[cats] Mattie got his ultrasound today! He's unhappy because they had to shave his sides

Mattie, as far as the radiologist could tell, has no uterus or ovaries. Ovaries are harder to tell though because they're kind of microscopic and look like lymph nodes in cat ultrasounds, but he looked pretty closely and is fairly sure nothing is there. Just in case though,

we'll likely be getting a blood hormone test to see if there's any sign of not!testosterone in his system.

Also, his genitals are closer to his sphincter than cat genitals typically are as well as the fact that he actually has neither a penis or a vulva,

but instead a hybrid of the two, which jumps his odds of UTI's. Once we can get him snipped though, we can start planning reconstructive surgery there so he can pee properly and have less UTI's.

i'm very tired but I believe the radiologist explained it as being because he has kind of hybrid genitals, the urine kind of pools? So bacteria just kind of builds up and boom, uti

Yep it would. Big hugs for Mattie. UTIs are awful. I hope they can get him fixed up so he can go to the bathroom without any trouble.

Oh poor sweet precious little soul. Praying everything goes well.

it's probably gonna take a bit before we can get the bloodtest done and schedule the neauter since bf's job STILL isn't taking out local tax so his taxes just came out and left us 500 in the hole ;;

BUT we should be able to get everything started proper in June

𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊 : Wow 500, yeah i could feel that. Please keep us posted

of course! I think we're also getting email'd the ultrasounds because it'd be so cool to have those

so if anyone wants to see, lemme know

I'll put them on Mattie's facebook later too

𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊 : I'd like to see

intersex kitty!