This is the start of a series of stories about animals and their owners who’ve found help and healing at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital<\/a>. Periodically we will share heartwarming tributes from hospital clients who wanted to highlight the vital treatment their animal companions received from the hospital’s caring teams of clinicians, veterinary nurses, staff and students. We begin with a tale of a cat named Gabby.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gabby Cat joined Jenny\u2019s family at just six months old\u2014a curious, spirited rescue with a few health quirks that required ongoing care. Early on, Gabby was diagnosed with food allergies, managed with the help of a prescription diet recommended by their local veterinarian. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we begin a Vet Gazette series about animals and their owners who’ve found help and healing at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital. Periodically we will share heartwarming tributes from hospital clients who wanted to highlight the vital care and treatment their animal companions received from the hospital’s caring team of clinicians, veterinary nurses, staff and students. The first is the tale of a cat named Gabby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":29673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,27],"tags":[121,56,2033,67],"class_list":["post-29672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hospitals","category-services","tag-giving","tag-homepage","tag-services","tag-small-animal-hospital"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29693,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672\/revisions\/29693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Years later, after a series of urinary tract infections, Gabby was diagnosed with kidney disease. That diagnosis brought her to the Purdue University Small Animal Hospital<\/a>, where she underwent surgery that helped extend her life and improve her comfort.
Jenny remembers how she sought to reassure Gabby before the trip, describing Purdue as a kind of \u201cfancy cat hotel\u201d where she\u2019d be well cared for. Gabby\u2019s treatment team took that approach to heart, sharing light-hearted updates with Jenny \u2014 including their sense of her less-than-enthusiastic feelings about a fellow feline patient.
Throughout her time at Purdue, Gabby received prescription medications from the hospital pharmacy and even had her own pet insurance card tied to Jenny\u2019s plan. The total experience, from personalized updates to specialized treatment, reflected the hospital\u2019s commitment to whole-pet care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n