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shadowborn61 -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 6:17:42 AM)
When i was young my Dad had an old Brittany spaniel that had lost a front leg to a bush hogg mower when he was younger and that dog had learned to walk just fine although he was limited on the length of time he could still hunt and we couldn't leave him at home when we went out because he would raise hell if we tried. That old dog was all heart and was one of the best pointers i have ever hunted over. My point is you will have to let your cat learn on his own he will be fine in time but you have to give him the chance to re learn things. I would bet that in a year he will be up and around doing so well that you will be truly amazed. The poor thing is ...lucky if you can call it that by any stretch of imagination in that it lost a back leg it is much harder for an animal to lose a front and for cats i would bet that is multiplied a hundredfold. My cat uses his front paws almost as good as i use my hands lol but he is a stinker and spoiled rotten[:D]

hlen5 -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 8:01:46 AM)
Best of luck to your 3 legged kitty! Do you think down the road one of those wheelchairs for the back end of an animal would work??

FelineFae -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 8:50:35 AM)
We're taking it one day at a time. His meds are keeping him a bit zonked out most of the time. Saturday the bandage comes off his front paw and i bet things will start going faster then, but we shall have to see. Last night, he rolled a bit, and then stood up on his good front paw and remaining back leg ! It wasn't for long, but it's a start [:)]

DomKen -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 10:58:37 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MariaB quote: ORIGINAL: servantforuse I guess I'll never understand why people who love their pets would let them roam wild. They can be injured or killed by cars, other animals and birds of prey. They are also subject to getting rabies and other illnesses. In Europe people only tend to keep their pedigree cats indoors and that's normally because they are entire. The UK doesn't have rabies or birds of prey big enough to take a cat (unless your in Scotland). We don't have Coyotes or beasties that will drag a cat away in the night. Personally I couldn't have a (four legged) cat and not allow it to be out doing cat things but I'm from a different part of the world to you and our culture towards our cats (which we love btw) is very different to yours. Most of us here would let their cats out BECAUSE they loved them and not keep them locked indoors. Indoor cats live longer and healthier lives no matter where in the world you are.

Rule -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 11:05:45 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hlen5 Best of luck to your 3 legged kitty! Do you think down the road one of those wheelchairs for the back end of an animal would work?? That will not be necessary. By the way: I once saw a very small bipedal dog. It walked on its front legs after having been hit by a car.

FelineFae -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 12:44:38 PM)
i relocate often. my 10 y/o cat, Banshea, has always been an indoor cat because of this. Weasel was my mother's cat. He was a foundling and grew up as an indoor-outdoor mouser. He became a completely outdoor cat after my mother had a lobe of her lung removed. She was no longer able to manage the care of a litter box nor the cat dander after her surgery. i came here to assist her after an injury to her hip and help with moving her into a home better suited to her needs. There are now four homes on this homestead, and we all live a bit communally. Some animals here are pets that live inside, some animals are workers and live outside, but we love them all. Yes, there are dangers here, poisonous snakes that are hard to see, the threat of wild boar, territorial bucks, and other hazards great and small which are just as deadly for us humans as the other animals around here. But our inside animals aren't free of danger. We work out in the woods, and we humans bring nasty ticks and other disease carrying risks into our homes. There are very few environments that are free of danger. We do care about the animals here and we do our best to keep them out of harm. That being said, the focus of this thread was to obtain useful information for Weasel's recovery.

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/20/2013 5:44:36 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FelineFae i'm staying with my family right now, and one of the yard cats was found greatly injured yesterday. We don't know what happened to him, my adoptive sister found him beside her car when she was leaving to pick up her child from school. The following is graphic ; One front paw was very very very swollen and the claws looked mangled. But the worst was that his back leg was gone. His thigh was there but only a piece of a claw dangled off his thigh by two tendons and a very dirty scrap of muscle. There were some bones showing through his thigh. It's weird because none of his injury was bleeding. We rushed him to our normal vet, but they were closed. We got to the next closest vet. They took him in and said they could save the front leg. We got him back today. He is set up to recoop in my huge master bathroom. He takes a dropper full of an antibiotic/painkiller twice a day, and it makes him kinda stoned. But the poor baby gets so angry when he tries to move. There's bandaging over his front paw, so he can't feel his paw pad when he sets it to the floor. And he wants so much to move his leg that isn't there. They had to remove it at the the hip. And i know he hurts when he's moving. He gets so frustrated and then he just rolls so that he can move... How can i help him through all this ? OMFG. This hurt so much to read! I am so hopeful you found a solution!

windchymes -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/21/2013 12:13:50 PM)
:( A million years ago, I worked in a veterinary emergency clinic. Only for about a year, because that's a rough place to work. But anyway, those injuries sound like he was hit or totally run over by a car. Ironically, in my job interview for my first veterinary job, the doc conducted the interview while putting the finishing touches on the leg amputation he had just done on a cat who had met the same fate. Of course, I was horrified but he told me, "Ah, cats are really adaptable and resiliant, they rally back from just about anything and do great on three legs." You'll probably have to grit your teeth and have some good tough mommy love while he learns how to walk, run and play again. But he will :)

ShaharThorne -> RE: Help for Three Legged Cat ??? (12/22/2013 6:20:16 AM)
Just keep us inform on how he is doing. I no longer take care of pets (after we had Georgie put to sleep due to blindness, being deaf and a tumor, Mom said no more pets) but we got cats hanging around, hopefully getting the mice before they come into the trailer. Our neighbor's dog comes over every day (beautiful purebreed Aussie) for scraps and to play with the kids when they are here.

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