simon1
Self Ignored by Vista
Looks like we have a Boo Boo.
One of the outside cats (that I rescued a few years ago, (this thread Born in the Great Outdoors - https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/born-in-the-great-outdoors.516745/) was laying by the porch last week looking like she didn't feel good. She was limping bad, real bad. Vet. didn't find any puncture wounds and sent here home to see what developed. She thought another cat had bit her.
Sunday an open wound appeared on her shoulder. Vet. said it was an abscess that had drained where another cat had bit her. Vet. shaved the hair around it, took some needle point tweezers and and pulled some fat out of the bite wound, flushed it well with some "blue water". Gave me a syringe with no needle and said to flush it out with peroxide, twice a day would be good. Vet. said to bring her back in about a week to get some of the tissue that is going to die trimmed off.
Socks has been very, very good about letting people handle her. My calico would have torn people up. She seems to be feeling much better and is walking good. She had been in the house from time to time in the past so she knows where the food and water bowls are, and how to use the litter box. She really wants to go back outside, but she's not going out without an escort until the wound heals.
And wouldn't you know it....SWMBO said she couldn't find peroxide at the store today. Hope people aren't hoarding again. I have about half of a big bottle but it won't last forever.
One of the outside cats (that I rescued a few years ago, (this thread Born in the Great Outdoors - https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/born-in-the-great-outdoors.516745/) was laying by the porch last week looking like she didn't feel good. She was limping bad, real bad. Vet. didn't find any puncture wounds and sent here home to see what developed. She thought another cat had bit her.
Sunday an open wound appeared on her shoulder. Vet. said it was an abscess that had drained where another cat had bit her. Vet. shaved the hair around it, took some needle point tweezers and and pulled some fat out of the bite wound, flushed it well with some "blue water". Gave me a syringe with no needle and said to flush it out with peroxide, twice a day would be good. Vet. said to bring her back in about a week to get some of the tissue that is going to die trimmed off.
Socks has been very, very good about letting people handle her. My calico would have torn people up. She seems to be feeling much better and is walking good. She had been in the house from time to time in the past so she knows where the food and water bowls are, and how to use the litter box. She really wants to go back outside, but she's not going out without an escort until the wound heals.
And wouldn't you know it....SWMBO said she couldn't find peroxide at the store today. Hope people aren't hoarding again. I have about half of a big bottle but it won't last forever.
