PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) I hate that, but he's been limping for a week plus now and I'm seeing a new area he has bare and his longer fluff covers it. I can't examine it properly and cats are such trash pets they need to be sedated for a vet to even touch them with this kind of injury so yeah.. Fun shit. He has to have a fracture I'm thinking.. Even if he doesnt the bill is going to be a couple benjamins regardless. He's not in any vet system. Edited July 28, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) He's not really a trash pet.. I'm pretty mad I can't even examine the area he has bare without being punctured though. My mom has a cat carrier.. So at least I can use that for the trip I think. I like to treat my animals myself I'm just mad because I've developed a don't piss me off I wont piss you off type set up with this rescue cat and he's a bro to my dogs..Still cats always react to you scoping out their injuries so negatively.. I was able to disinfect the first hairless spot I saw and he remained pretty chill, but vigilant watching me like he was ready to slice.. He's still not putting any weight on it though.. so *sigh* vet time. 😪 Edited July 28, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Try to be positive. It could just be a dislocation too or a sprain. My current kitty is getting old; she sometimes sleeps funny and she might limp a bit in the morning because of that. She'll at least let me pick her up and massage her arms a little to help set things back in place. If he's an outdoor kitty, he could have also gotten into a fight and gotten bit. A bite can get infected and swell, causing limping and baldness from excessive licking in an attempt to self drain the area. I've had to drain plenty of kitty legs in the past and some of those bites you didn't really know until you went feeling for the source of the limping. Once the infection has been found, the limping eased up within days easily. And small bites could be bug bites causing a bad reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) He's had a previous but still probably worsening "high rise syndrome" issue in that same foot and he's got norwegian forest cat blood.. He plops from my carport onto the top of my lifted truck and likes to slide down the window looking at me when I get home.... and he's outside a lot so that's my speculation. Without an x-ray though it's just blah. Edited July 28, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distinct Lunatic Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 My cat is 10 years old, and the only issue I'm having is for the love of God I need to get her spayed. Quite literally every other week for the last 4 months she's been going into heat, making her tremendously noisy and annoying. Problem is I'm more focused on getting loans and credit cards paid off to where it's hard to also swing for getting that done. Doesn't help that on the same day yesterday both my weed eater and lawn mower broke apart, gonna need to drop around $200 or so in the next week. So probably not gonna get her spayed anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 7 minutes ago, katt_goddess said: Try to be positive. It could just be a dislocation too or a sprain. My current kitty is getting old; she sometimes sleeps funny and she might limp a bit in the morning because of that. She'll at least let me pick her up and massage her arms a little to help set things back in place. If he's an outdoor kitty, he could have also gotten into a fight and gotten bit. A bite can get infected and swell, causing limping and baldness from excessive licking in an attempt to self drain the area. I've had to drain plenty of kitty legs in the past and some of those bites you didn't really know until you went feeling for the source of the limping. Once the infection has been found, the limping eased up within days easily. And small bites could be bug bites causing a bad reaction. but to reply to this yeah there's no bone poking through skin that I've seen and I have caught him in a good mood where he realized I was trying to doctor him, and he let me put hydrogen peroxide on one spot... Now I see an area closer to his ankle, and he's been fucking me up everytime I try to look at it so whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) I got puncture marks all over my arms just from gently trying to move some fluff out of the way so I could see. I need another beer now damn it. Cat wasn't even trying to fuck me up but the holes are on both arms.. my hands.. he was being gentle to.. Edited July 28, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) Like.. I know he's probably not a pure breed, but this cat climbs recklessly I've always thought.. I see him in high spots around my house outside higher than the roof all the time just chilling, and he'll just leap from there to something else and get down in seconds.. "Not surprisingly, this large and athletic cat is a climber. You will often find him at the highest point he can reach in the home, and unlike some cats, he doesn’t have any qualms about descending trees or other heights headfirst. Thanks to his heritage as a wilderness and farm cat, not to mention his waterproof coat, the Wegie thinks nothing of fishing in a body of water for a nice meal. Aquarium and koi pond denizens, beware! While he loves the outdoors, he is content to live quietly in a home." https://cattime.com/cat-breeds/norwegian-forest-cats#/slide/1 Also his tail proceeds him even in the summer and he sheds close to the amount my dogs do while being one fourth the size.. It's like a chessire kittie tail lol. Yeah that's his ugly mug in the winter.. Edited July 28, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 With the heat of Texas.. especially recently that does not look like him at all though lol. Even his tail is nothing like that now. A cold winter might be nice I want to see this dude fluff out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 22 hours ago, PhilosipherStoned said: I got puncture marks all over my arms just from gently trying to move some fluff out of the way so I could see. I need another beer now damn it. Cat wasn't even trying to fuck me up but the holes are on both arms.. my hands.. he was being gentle to.. You need to purritto that puff ball. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 22 hours ago, Distinct Lunatic said: My cat is 10 years old, and the only issue I'm having is for the love of God I need to get her spayed. Quite literally every other week for the last 4 months she's been going into heat, making her tremendously noisy and annoying. Problem is I'm more focused on getting loans and credit cards paid off to where it's hard to also swing for getting that done. Doesn't help that on the same day yesterday both my weed eater and lawn mower broke apart, gonna need to drop around $200 or so in the next week. So probably not gonna get her spayed anytime soon. Call around to local rescues in your area to see about free and reduce cost spays for low-income individuals. Many larger cities have something going on that helps to keep the pet populations down safely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 His appointment is at 10:30am today.. I'm not looking forward to this he isn't used to cat carriers and he tried to bust the thing apart when I shut the door on it yesterday with him in it to see what he'd do.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 I knew the trip would be a pocket breaker, but I felt it was the best thing to do.. My bill is already just shy of $400. The cat which is that rescue cat I pulled from a dumpster that was almost starved to death when it was a kitten so this isn't that surprising but... he tested positive for FIV even though he's never showed any signs of sickness..It's bascially HIV in cats according to vets..They still havent ran x-rays to see if he has a fracture or why he's limping, but I told them to do that. He's also getting nuetered.. Sorry little dude, but you can't say I didn't give him plenty of time to do his thing first he's like 3-3.5 years old now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distinct Lunatic Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, PhilosipherStoned said: I knew the trip would be a pocket breaker, but I felt it was the best thing to do.. My bill is already just shy of $400. The cat which is that rescue cat I pulled from a dumpster that was almost starved to death when it was a kitten so this isn't that surprising but... he tested positive for FIV even though he's never showed any signs of sickness..It's bascially HIV in cats according to vets..They still havent ran x-rays to see if he has a fracture or why he's limping, but I told them to do that. He's also getting nuetered.. Sorry little dude, but you can't say I didn't give him plenty of time to do his thing first he's like 3-3.5 years old now. Back years ago somehow my sis's cat got its neck sliced, and I ended up having to pay the vet bill for that one, it being around $500. Shit gets super expensive at vets. Earlier this year my mom had to put one of their dogs down cause its leg got bit up in a fight with another dog, it getting a really bad infection, the vet wanted close to 2 grand to amputate the leg and then keep her for a day or two to recover, that being something my mom couldn't afford. Edited July 29, 2020 by Distinct Lunatic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 I really wasn't expecting him to test positive for FIV. They said that drastically shortens their life span.. He grew up big and has been healthy until this leg injury. I'm sad. 😷 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) For an update he's back.. and I'm not trying to take this to rants, but is it at all overbearing to say that $400 dollars later when the cat had open wounds where you had to drain an abscesessed area or whatever they did for that...THAT you bandage it up and give the cones or whatever to help me help him from digging at shit?? I feel like I'm still at step one with a now nuetered cat that's been diagnosed with (aids) supposingly.. https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/pet-talk/the-truth-about-feline-aids/ Just so non cat people are tracking this.. Even the doc said it's farily common with outdoor cats, and by all the accounts I look into not nearly as aggressive as HIV.. Though cat's living out pretty long lives with it untreated could be due more to the (9 lives) resiliency cats have compared to humans.. Who knows. Zero broken bones... Though he had what I'm now guessing was a huge internal abcess in his leg they treated from an infection from a fight.. That is what they were telling me anyway. It was hard to see the origin with his hair and I could do little besides carefully..ever so slightly move his leg around and dab hydrogen peroxide on areas I saw that were open wounds.. I spent a lot of time prior to the vet trying to scope out his injiry, but any movement to the foot would get me puncture marks and result in him freaking out so that's why I went from this can't be that bad, to vet ASAP as soon as I spotted a visible open wound.. 😪 Edited July 29, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) That shit is really common in this area though...I was told by them even at the clinic that parvo in dogs is a speculated mutation coming from it.. Which one of my dogs contracted in between self administered vaccines because I didn't give him stage 2 in time.. I'm definitely not a vetinarian I know that, but he was ALMOST out of the window and so huge when he got parvo I wasn't worried. He made an easy recovery with vet. care, but still that fuck up was on me. I didn't even bother to research he'd need more than one parvo vaccine before that disease became a nonissue. At least he's a healthy annoying clingy douchebag these days with zero health concerns.. Edited July 29, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) Can't believe my cat has (FIV) it's fucking me up.. If I had babied and sheltered the dude to an indoor life yeah sure.. The male vet I talked to was like... pshh so many tom cats we treat have that around here so whatev's it is bad.. I know it is, but he still sounded meh like once his leg gets better he'll be back to new.. The treating vet I think it had to be..called me because he tested positive and said as much...He just made it sound like it was a pretty common thing he had to do so Idk how to feel.. This cat compared to most toms doesnt roam that far... I know this.. Though I've caught him all around a one to two mile radius of my house he comes back daily.. Looking at tom cats scientifically even a pure bread babied bitch exceeds that.. I say this because he's been one of the few toms that still comes home EVERYDAY, and he acts like my house front and back is shit to defend.. Most cats I've seen end up like this were ones that owners report staying gone for days to weeks.. I mean I get it.. A tom cat in my block radius fought with him and gave it to him... sucks though. and crazy to think about.. Edited July 30, 2020 by PhilosipherStoned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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