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Cheer me up folks. I adopted a 7yo laperm in November who had previously had a crap time of it. By the start of the Easter hols he was our new bestie. He likes be out at night and normally reappears in the morning, sleeps all day and repeats. Yesterday he wouldn't come in for a while in the morning then wasn't eating or moving about. Last night he was still sitting in the hall when I got home with his food untouched. This worried me and I moved his food to beside him at which point he ate. I tired to pick him up last night and he went nuts and scratched the crap out of me. Lots of yowling and wailing. This morning I took the fleece he was sleeping on gently from under him. He hid under the sofa and wet himself... So vets tonight, legs work fine though he is slow, tail is still tail shaped. So, trivial pissed off cat or major injury and eye watering bill.
Could be a bite (from another animal).
Our's just been in with a fox bite on back leg - fortunately, we've only needed long acting anti-biotics and metacam - that was £96. 2 holes in her leg of 5p pieces, but they have started to scab over after bathing and the meds.
Hissed of cats are 'dangerous'.
Hard to tell - could have got in a fight and is feeling rough as a result. One of ours used to do this quite frequently. Didn't like to be touched afterwards, but would come round after a couple of days. Fingers crossed.
Trivial pissed off cat is my vote.
Over the years, my cats have done everything they could to piss me off.
The only time we found out our last cat was ill was when she started being nice to us - snuggling up to us on the sofa, purring - none of which she'd ever done in the past.
It does sound lie internal issues of some description - you say he is eating but is it coming out the other end? The pissing under the couch thing is not great - that sounds like he is being bullied and doesn't want to go outside, so he might have been beaten up by another cat and have abcess somewhere. It can be a vicious cycle, they get stressed then ill from stress, then are more vulnerable.
Whatever it is, my money is on the vet prescribing a Feliway thing in the long term.
We took on a rescue after our pedigree got run over. Lovely ginger tom that had lived on a building site. His mouth was a mess. Anyway, loads of tests etc, calcivirus (cat flu). His mouth issues were gingivitus so all his teeth had to come out. £1k later and he is a picture of health and not needed to go back. To top it off, we got two more cats, two Ragdoll pedigrees that were related to the one that got run over.
Now have 4 cats. One goes out, the other 3 have a cat run in the garden.
Two cracked ribs "probably kicked." Bill to follow, painkilling medication and nothing else can be done for him. I live in a cul de sac of approx 20 houses in the middle of nowhere so probably speak to the person who did it.
Fair enough. No wonder he is 'hissed off'.
Metacam is about £30 a packet/bottle plus the £40 consultation fee.
PS could have fallen off something !
abscess from a bite from another cat is my guess. get th poor sod to the vets
Done Neil.
Last summer my cat's eyes and nose kept swelling up, I took her to the vet thinking she had allergies but nothing showed up in tests and antihistamines didn't work. It was when I was scrolling through the local fb page when I saw that a neighbour was delighted to find something that kept cats out of her garden, it was pepper spray! A wee visit from the police (it's classed as an offensive weapon) and the SSPCA and the "allergy" cleared up
I meant to say that I hope that your cat gets better soon and that you don't have anymore problems, but I deleted that bit by accident, doh
Get well soon wee fella. Keep us posted.
Cat's as predators hide injuries - we think our old cat may have hidden it a while. Despite being old, slow with arthritis, and a bit blind, I'm sure a fox would have had a run with cat claws going full on... despite the nasty bite on her back leg.
Leo the rescue is a bit too handy with claws in 'play' but the two 'big' young raggies keep their claws 'in' during play. Flipping lethal if they are 'hissed off' though, hence why vets will knock them out - the claws are worse than teeth.
I remember going down to the kitchen first thing in a morning just to give one cat (not the current batch) a tablet. I was just in boxers. Cat jumped and landed all 4 feet clawed into my back. I had to ask my wife to hurry to remove it.... and this is a cat that loves you.... never, ever, mess with cats, little or BIG.
Leo (no teeth cat) will play fight, like the others, but realises he has no teeth. The others will pop their teeth on your fingers etc. and put a bit of 'pressure on' - poor Leo realises 'I've got no teeth', then runs off.. (he has claws out). It's a 'sloppy bite'...