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We have been caring for a feral cat for around 10 years. It wasn't planned. It just happened. We fed her and she kept showing up. She was originally trapped and neutered and returned to live wild (not by us),thus the clipped ear.
We have her a bed on the front porch in the summer, and in winter, a box with a bed with a heating pad.
In the past year, she has disappeared a few times for 3-4 days. Each time, we thought that she might be gone, but then she shows up wounded. All of the wounds have looked similar. They are finger tip sized puncture wounds that look serious.
We think that if these wounds were bullet wounds, she would probably have died. The wounds look too big to be from a pellet gun.
She has lived through three of these, but we have no idea what is happening to her. Any ideas. Our vet refused to give us antibiotics without seeing her and won't treat a feral cat, so catch 22 there.
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Topic - "Black Kitty" - srdavis2000 09:27:08 06/23/17 (18)
- Spider bites? - Alpha Al 19:27:14 06/24/17 (1)
- RE: Spider bites? - srdavis2000 09:38:11 06/25/17 (0)
- Good luck with this ... - reelsmith. 16:46:48 06/24/17 (0)
- Time to find a new/different Vet with a more compassionate view... - musetap 19:22:17 06/23/17 (3)
- RE: Time to find a new/different Vet with a more compassionate view... - srdavis2000 10:12:10 06/24/17 (2)
- RE: Time to find a new/different Vet with a more compassionate view... - Sondek 10:50:57 06/24/17 (1)
- Agree. - grantv 13:57:42 06/24/17 (0)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - painter27 19:04:10 06/23/17 (1)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - srdavis2000 10:09:42 06/24/17 (0)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - Mike B. 17:42:44 06/23/17 (0)
- Reads to me that Black Kitty ought to see the / a vet. - Timbo in Oz 17:03:41 06/23/17 (0)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - Sondek 14:55:29 06/23/17 (2)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - srdavis2000 15:24:27 06/23/17 (1)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - Sondek 16:47:27 06/23/17 (0)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - Dynamite Ham 13:02:01 06/23/17 (1)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - srdavis2000 15:34:28 06/23/17 (0)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - grantv 12:31:14 06/23/17 (1)
- RE: "Black Kitty" - srdavis2000 14:03:16 06/23/17 (0)