狗狗獻血救小貓 誰說貓狗是冤家？

Traditional animal rivalries were set aside in New Zealand when a dog's blood was used to save the life of a poisoned cat in a rare inter-species transfusion, reports said Wednesday.
都說貓狗是冤家，但週三有報道稱，新西蘭一隻小貓中毒瀕危，好在通過罕見的跨種族輸血後轉危爲安，而獻血方則是一條狗。

Cat owner Kim Edwards was frantic last Friday when her ginger tom Rory went limp after eating rat poison, rushing to her local veterinary clinic at Tauranga in the North Island for help.
週五，貓主人金·愛德華茲發現她的薑黃色小貓羅裏誤食老鼠藥後中毒，癱軟無力。焦急的主人火速將貓咪送到北島陶朗加的當地獸醫診所治療。

Vet Kate Heller said the feeble feline was fading fast and needed an immediate transfusion to survive, but there was not enough time to send a sample to the laboratory for testing to determine the cat's blood type.
獸醫凱特·海勒說，那時小貓已經快不行了，急需輸血搶救，可是已經沒時間把血樣送到實驗室，等血型化驗結果出來再手術。

Instead, she decided to take a gamble and use dog blood to try to save the animal, knowing it would die instantly if she gave it the wrong type.
獸醫很清楚，如果血型不相配，貓咪將會當場死亡，但她還是決定賭上一把，試着用狗狗的血液救活小貓。

Edwards called up her friend Michelle Whitmore, who volunteered her black Labrador Macy as a doggie blood donor in a last-ditch attempt to save Rory, a procedure Heller said she had never performed before and was very rare.
愛德華茲打電話給朋友米歇爾·惠特莫爾說明情況，這位朋友願意讓她的黑色拉布拉多犬梅西獻血，爲救活小貓羅裏做最後一搏。海勒說跨種輸血十分罕見，她之前從沒做過這樣的手術。

"People are going to think it sounds pretty dodgy -- and it is -- but hey, we've been successful and it's saved it's life," Heller told the New Zealand Herald.
“人們都認爲這樣做太不正常了，的確很瘋狂，但要知道我們最後還是成功救活了小貓。”海勒在接受《新西蘭先驅報》採訪時如是說。

Edwards said the cat appeared to have come through its ordeal unscathed, seemingly without any canine side effects.
愛德華茲說，現在小貓看上去已經完全擺脫傷病，好像也沒出現任何輸入狗狗血液的副作用。

"The vets just went above and beyond... it's incredible that it worked," she said.
她說：“獸醫實在太厲害了……難以置信居然成功了。”

"Rory is back to normal and we don't have a cat that barks or fetches the paper."
“我們家羅裏現在是隻很正常的貓，不會吠叫，也不給我們叼報紙。”