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Art and responses slow - vet emergency
7 years ago
I'm gonna be slowing down on the art and responses for the next little while cause one of our kittens got stepped on by one of our horses by accident >_>
two of her toes were totally crushed (luckily just her toes!!) so they had to be removed surgically. She's now wearing the cone of shame and keeps flicking her bandages off and showing everyone her gross stitched up paw stub.
We're calling her stumpy gumpy atm. (Run Forrest run!) really classy I know.
anyways.
We tried taking her back to the vet for them to put the bandage club back on which they did but within the hour, she had managed to flick it off again :U
I'm gonna call tomorrow and see what I should do cause every time I try to re-dress it, it stays on for maybe like 30 minutes until she's got it off again.
The good news is she seems more annoyed at her stub and bandages than she is in pain. The bad news is that she's walking around and trying to explore when we want her to just chill out and stay off her stumpy foot meaning I have to keep her in her kennel a lot of the time, which makes her sad cause she's a kitten and wants to explore... So I let her out when I can so I can supervise her explorations within my room (the less room to explore, the less chance of her somehow making her injury worse).
So taking care of her and making sure she doesn't hurt herself more is kind of a very full time thing along with working at my full time job so.
I'm working on art and responding to your notes n stuff when I can! I'll just be slower for the next couple weeks ;o; <3
Thanks for understanding!
two of her toes were totally crushed (luckily just her toes!!) so they had to be removed surgically. She's now wearing the cone of shame and keeps flicking her bandages off and showing everyone her gross stitched up paw stub.
We're calling her stumpy gumpy atm. (Run Forrest run!) really classy I know.
anyways.
We tried taking her back to the vet for them to put the bandage club back on which they did but within the hour, she had managed to flick it off again :U
I'm gonna call tomorrow and see what I should do cause every time I try to re-dress it, it stays on for maybe like 30 minutes until she's got it off again.
The good news is she seems more annoyed at her stub and bandages than she is in pain. The bad news is that she's walking around and trying to explore when we want her to just chill out and stay off her stumpy foot meaning I have to keep her in her kennel a lot of the time, which makes her sad cause she's a kitten and wants to explore... So I let her out when I can so I can supervise her explorations within my room (the less room to explore, the less chance of her somehow making her injury worse).
So taking care of her and making sure she doesn't hurt herself more is kind of a very full time thing along with working at my full time job so.
I'm working on art and responding to your notes n stuff when I can! I'll just be slower for the next couple weeks ;o; <3
Thanks for understanding!
I work at a vet hospital and someone surrounded their cat to us because she came home with a missing toe. When she arrived at our clinic, there had already been maggots forming, so we wonder how long she really was in that condition. Anyway, we fixed her up and she came home with me.
I affectionately have renamed her as "Digit", to make up for the one that she lost. XD
For your kitty, see if there is a sedation medication, prescribed by the vet, you can give the little one as needed to help keep her steady. We had a client who couldn't keep her cat calm at home and didn't have a kennel, so she hung out with us for a week. Given plenty of love in her double open dog kennel and turned into the clinic cat for the week.
Glad she has such a good owner! Was she going to be a mouser when she got older?
yeah she has a sister named Elphie who's still out in the barn (both of them are barn cats for mousing). we just got them a couple weeks ago and as the old tale goes, curiosity (almost) killed the cat. seems Penny got a little to close to one of the horses as it was shifting positions and accidents happen ;~;
She'll still be a barn cat with her sister; she just might not be as good of a mouser :P but who knows!
I take her out when I can. She loves exploring my room and yesterday she fell asleep while I was holding her so that was just too precious for words (although I almost fell asleep too cause the sound of a cat purring is so relaxing and it was near my bedtime anyways haha)
You take good care of her cofae! Arts and fans can wait. Kittens come first!
Hopefully she heals up very soon; momma Coffae is only here to help! ;v;
Reminds me of another friend who's cat decided to hide in the car motor. Fortunately all that got hurt there was the end (like 1/2" of her tail), but it also had to be surgically removed.
Her problem, though, was she'd get irritated with the cone and the lingering pain, which would cause her to slap her tail on the ground; which would hurt a bit and make her do it again, and so on until she'd flip out, tackle her tail stub and gripe at it XD
I hope (Stumps McGee?) heals up and is good soon. Little fluffball needs to be exploring and playing; hopefully well away from hooves, aye?
Stumps McGee should make a full recovery! It'll just be annoying until we get there for the poor dear <3 shes all sad cooped up in her kennel but we don't have much choice D:
It's a purring generator, and if you tune it to 'calming mama cat', sometimes that can help kittens settle down and rest. Feline lullabies!