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Cat fight
We had a cat show up at our door that appears to have been in a fight.
The hair has been pulled out behind it's eat about the size of a silver dollar. It seemed to scab over very good and no infction is visuable. But today I saw it scratching off the scab and it is back to being raw. Is there anything i can put on it omnce it scabs over again? Thanks |
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Cat fight
On Mar 19, 1:27*pm, c1gmlm wrote:
But today I saw it scratching off the scab and it is back to being raw. Is there anything i can put on it omnce it scabs over again? You will have to either do something to keep the wound from infecting while it heals naturally, or numb it so that the cat leaves it alone as it heals - just as with people, scabs are very itchy to cats. If the cat lets you handle it, *and you do not want to get a vet involved - probably with stitches*, you might start with Neosporin - understanding that by introducing an antibiotic you are making a 10- day, every-day committment. If you want to just try to give the wound a chance to heal, there are several grades of "New Skin" liquid bandage that will help a great deal. http://www.newskinproducts.com/liquid-bandage.htm Cats don't like licking this stuff either - a good thing. Note that it is an irritant when it first hits the skin, so be prepared for a bit of a reaction before it numbs the area. If you can keep the cat with you long enough to give it several coats that, too would be useful. Note that Neosporin and New Skin are incompatible - it is one or the other. due to the sealing effect of the New Skin. Note also that New Skin should NOT be put over any wound that shows any sign of infection at all. Betadyne is an excellent and low-irritation, low-toxicity antiseptic which you should use as the first treatment before the New Skin just in case you seal in something not quite sterile. One more useful aspect of Betadyne is that if you squirt a bit in each ear it does a great job of driving out ear-mites as well as loosening the cake they build up. The last best thing you might do for this cat is to make sure that it is well-fed for the healing period. This leads up to the issue of taking responsibility once you do start feeding it and medicating it. It is a very, very tough call sometimes. We are working with an orange stray in our neighborhood and what makes it even harder is that it was a former resident in our house before that family lost it due to foreclosure some years ago and entirely unknown to us when we moved in. Now nearly four years later she is friendly enough to talk to, but will not let anyone touch her or go any much closer than 10 feet or so. I suppose I could trap it, and I suppose it could be re-introduce to family life - but we have sufficient of our own and the local no- kill shelters are quite full up these days. And, sadly, it is not a very attractive cat as these things go and so unlikely to do well in a local SPCA - entirely apart from the trauma involved. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
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