Cat Gets Pacemaker
15-year-old Heidi the cat is doing well after she was fitted with a pacemaker. Surgeons at the University of Melbourne performed the rare operation, thought to be the first of its kind for cats in Australia.
The tiny pacemaker was lodged in the stomach muscles, and wires fed to the heart. Heidi was suffering from fainting spells due to arrhythmia, where beating momentarily ceases.
