First ever cat spay

I've been lucky enough to do lots of surgery so far including lots of cat castrates and many neuter surgeries on dogs, but never done a cat spay so this seemed like a bit of a milestone.

Unfortunately an Indian politician died yesterday so the roads are closed and the boys were unable to go and catch or release dogs, so we were given owned cats to neuter.

As with all other surgeries, the cats are given a premedication, an intravenous catheter placed for induction of anaesthetic and perioperative fluids. Here she is after being clipped and just waiting for a surgery table so she can be scrubbed.
It gets pretty cold in Ooty so you can see the hot water bottle which has the iv line running under it to to keep her warm, and the hair drier which can be used in recovery to warm them up.

I took a midline approach and opened the abdomed, searched for a couple of minutes and couldn't find her uterine horns or ovaries. We checked, twice, to make sure she wasn't a male so the supervising vet stepped in to find the uterine horns, which he was unable to do.
Another vet scrubbed in to check, and another, who were all unable to find them! Eventually we found a cervical stump which would indicate she had been spayed before but as there was no midline incision scar and her eartip was not clipped, she must have been done flank and by someone else.

All very odd but I closed the abdomen which was good practice and will wait for another opportunity for my first proper cat spay!