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Post by cally on Mar 28, 2010 9:39:20 GMT 1
My poor Finn cat got his extra long sexy tail caught in the flyscreen door on Friday! He bolted under our bed and I have a bad back so couldn't drag him out so Phil did when he got home an hour or so later and it was badly lacerated and you could see bone.
So, into the travel box and up to the vet who wrapped up his tail & said it would be done on Monday, but Friday night he got the bandage off and went mental all over the house. So I went to work Saturday morning and Finn went back to the vet & they did the amputation that afternoon. Since then he's been hiding inside our couch (he ripped a hole in it when he was a kitten) brooding. He has to stay inside for 10 DAYS which will send him (and us) bonkers.
Also our beloved rat Slimey is dying, so sad times here at the moment.
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Post by Claire on Mar 28, 2010 12:58:43 GMT 1
Oh poor Finn and poor Slimey. And poor you of course. Thats the downside of owning animals. Did Finn have to have the whole tail off? It seems to happen quite often with cats tails, they do tend to get caught in things, I've seen quite a few tailless ones on my travels. Hope he feels better soon.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 13:54:27 GMT 1
oh dear I hope Finn gets better soon!
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Post by garej on Mar 28, 2010 20:32:55 GMT 1
Oh dear. My Pickle when he had a short stump of a tail I always suspected had either been caught in a door or he had been run over by a car (of course being a stray we didnt know what happened to it). Over a year ago he has had the little bit off and he has been fine since, in fact he annoyed Tigger yesterday by climbing on the windowsill (her favourite spot) and sitting there! He doesnt go out which was not a problem, but the vet did warn me (before I got him) that had he been a outdoors kitty he may have trouble jumping onto high surfaces & climbing up trees (to get away from danger).
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Post by garej on Mar 28, 2010 21:05:01 GMT 1
Oh and here is Pickle, with his tail less self.
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Post by garej on Mar 29, 2010 0:05:22 GMT 1
Oh & a thing i have noticed is since the amputation is that Pickle does not clean his bottom. Occasionally it gets very sore and dirty so i have to clean it for him. It is something you may have to watch out for.
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Post by cally on Mar 29, 2010 1:35:19 GMT 1
Sweet pic Garej, but then YECCH! That'll be OH's job me thinks.
Day 3 and he slept on the bed with us for a while last night, then in a corner in the hallway, and he's back inside the couch now. He's actually got around half a tail left so hopefully he'll adapt quickly and the other cats in the 'hood won't laugh at him too much...actually, he's in more danger from our 2 new chooks who STILL think our toes might in fact be edible.
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Post by sarah on Mar 29, 2010 19:02:15 GMT 1
Ahhhhhh - poor thing - hope he is feeling his normal self soon.
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Post by cally on Apr 1, 2010 9:53:19 GMT 1
We're taking the bandage off tomorrow, then he's off to the vet Tuesday to get the stitches out and then hopefully he'll be allowed out next wednesday! He is not impressed with our negligent behaviour- not opening the door when he wants it opened primarily- and protests most noisily when he's reduced to having to use the litter tray. I hope he doesn't do a bolt and hide under the house for a week when he's finally released!
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Post by garej on Apr 2, 2010 18:50:15 GMT 1
We're taking the bandage off tomorrow, then he's off to the vet Tuesday to get the stitches out and then hopefully he'll be allowed out next wednesday! That is good, though I do wonder why he (the vet) did not use dissolvable stitches? Oh and btw, this is Pickle before he had the rest amputated.
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Post by cally on Apr 5, 2010 9:12:33 GMT 1
Evidently they do use dissolvable stitches but they sometimes cling on and you know what cats are like.
We couldn't get all of the bandage off; closer to the tip there's tight surgical tape and OH was already bleeding from a doozy of a scratch near his eye to we left the rest. Finn's off to the vet tomorrow and they can sort it out! It's a 3 person job we figure.
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Post by kunuma on Apr 6, 2010 0:33:01 GMT 1
Missed this, best wishes to poor puss cat and owner! One of mine came home with a severed tail when I lived on the moor and the cats roamed free. Never knew how it happened but I suspected a snare. He recovered but never jumped as well again.
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Post by cally on Apr 9, 2010 8:46:21 GMT 1
Bandage taken off= insane cat. He was behaving the same as the 1st night he did it ie: growling at it as though it was another cat attacking him, having full on yowling matches with ghosts, jumping on people then growling & jumping around the house. It was really distressing to see him, but the next morning he was a bit calmer so I let him outside & was he blissed out; he's an outdoor boy most days but always in between dusk & dawn. He smooched everything in reach then trotted off. 4p.m Tom let him in for a snack & said he'd gone out again. Hours passed & no Finn-worried. I sat outside on the back doorstep in my p.js calling him in the dark. 9.30p.m: Finn emerges from under an armchair- blighter had been inside the whole time. Cats...
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Post by Claire on Apr 9, 2010 13:22:44 GMT 1
Oh dear that has happened to me a few times. Once a cat got under a chest of drawers (in about a 1" gap!!! ) and lurked there for a few hours another time one crawled into a folded up duvet inside the cover. They are little terrors but at least he hadn't done a runner! Sounds like he will settle soon.
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Post by cally on Apr 11, 2010 3:22:24 GMT 1
Right at this moment, he's sitting on the windowsill in my bedroom, only slightly concerned that there's hoovering going on outside. He's more or less back to 'normal' (whatever that is for a cat) and can jump and frolic as per usual
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Post by garej on Apr 11, 2010 11:10:31 GMT 1
Oh that is good. Pickle still can jump onto the windowsill, but he is rather old for a cat (he will be 12 this year which is good considering he has FIV) so he doesnt go there that often and I think he cannot be be bothered rather than his lack of tail hindering him. When he has the small stump of the tail he obviously had it for years as it was still firmly attached and obviously long healed. Like I said before, he was a stray, and not microchipped. He spent a month in the vets where the vet nurse who originally rescued him worked before coming to the Cats Protection, and nobody claimed him as theirs, so how he got it exactly will never been known. So he has to adjust with practically no tail for years now.
Pickle when he had a small stump of a tail used to clean it, but when he had it off does not bother now. Occasionally he likes to wash Tigger's (my other cat) tail for her. I think he thinks it is his but then remembers it is not so when he has finished he gives it a bite which she slaps him on the face for!
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Post by Claire on Apr 11, 2010 11:39:00 GMT 1
Great news cally, glad he's getting back to 'normal.'
Garej thats funny about Pickle cleaning Tigger's tale. I used to love watching my cats interacting together. I miss it now I have just one. Pickle looks in great shape now. He's got lovely markings too.
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Post by garej on Apr 11, 2010 21:56:34 GMT 1
Garej thats funny about Pickle cleaning Tigger's tale. I used to love watching my cats interacting together. I miss it now I have just one. Pickle looks in great shape now. He's got lovely markings too. She doesn't mind him washing her tail, it's the biting she objects too. So when she is finished giving him a slap she looks at me as if to say "why did he bite my tail?" and he looks like he is saying "why did she slap me?" He is a silly boy, I call him Silly Sausage! Fortunately (for her) he does not bother trying to wash anywhere else as she would not let him!
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Post by cally on Apr 12, 2010 3:05:31 GMT 1
Yes, I miss having more than one cat; even if they don't really get on they still interact, usually with amusing results. I think we will probably get another kitten around Xmas time when the RSPCA is overwhelmed due to it being kitten season. I'd consider an older cat but it's very unlikely our dog would accept it. This morning my brother in law took her (Holly) out for a walk without any restraint device and she attacked another dog in a stormwater drain. I'm sure we've told him not to take her out without a lead at the very least, but some people always think know better. She's over protective and that extends to Finn as well! She's a BIG dog, but she lets Finn push her out of her bed and bite her face, the big idiot.
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