I was preparing the evening meal last night when I heard Bonnie
growling.  She was lying on the carpet with Clyde and he was trying to
play with her.   She never growls and cries like that so I
investigated.  Yikes.   Her back leg had big gouges of flesh out of it
from top to bottom.   She couldn't stand up and was in obvious pain.

I got her to the emergency vet.   It wasn't done by a dog (my first
thought) because there was no saliva, it wasn't done by a car.  He
thought she had got her back leg caught in a fence and had torn off the
flesh and injured ligaments getting it free.   You couldn't touch her on
the back hind quarters.  

He gave her morphine for the pain and antibiotics for the wounds and
some other injections for the inflamation.  She was in shock and her
little heart was racing.  He said to leave her in the carry cage that
night.

I thought I would leave Clyde in the kitchen with her but the first
thing he did was squeeze himself into the cage with her and bite her
ear.   He spent the night with FSP in the cat house!!   Cats purr when
they are happy but they also purr when they are in pain.   After the
morphine wore off she was purring like a train.

This morning she is a lot better.  She ate a little of her favourite
food, a good sign.    She can walk now, although falls over
occcasionally, is very stiff, still uncomfortable and in pain.  She has
taken up residence in the carry cage, guess it is a comfort to be in a
dark, confined space like that when a kitty doesn't feel well. The
emergency vet said to see how she was this morning and that perhaps she
should go to her own vet for an X ray if no better.   We'll see.   Lois
will be in later with a bigger cage for her and so we will have another
diagnosis :)

I have no idea where she damaged herself.   She was fine half an hour
before it happened although I did spy Deo walking away down the drive.
Perhaps he chased her and she tore up a tree or jumped a fence.    Poor
little thing, I hate seeing her like this.

Bev