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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / March 2004Wild stray with URI needs help
I have a sick cat that came here as stray a few months ago. I think he has an URI but there is no way in heck I can get him to a vet. He is extremely skittish and wild. He will only let me near him; he runs away from other people or will try to bite them. If I put him in a cat carrier, he will tear me up. I can't get any of the vets in the area to give me something to calm him down with so I can bring him in. They won't give me any meds to give him unless I bring him in. Are there any OTC people medications I can give him to help him? I'm going to try using a saline solution to help him breathe better so he'll eat. He wouldn't eat the 9 Lives tuna I put out, which is the smelliest food I could find. What else can I do for him? It's taken months for him to be able to trust me and I don't want to screw that up because he might runaway and no one else around here cares enough to take care of a sick stray cat. Try posting this on alt.med.vererinary. Try warming up the cat food so he can better smell it. Gail > I have a sick cat that came here as stray a few months ago. I think he > has an URI but there is no way in heck I can get him to a vet. He is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > he might runaway and no one else around here cares enough to take care > of a sick stray cat. Hi Mike, Borrow a humane trap from your local Humane Society, Animal Shelter, or SPCA. The trap is like a box/cage. You set the catch to keep the door open, put the food in it, and when the cat enters to eat the food, the door closes. No injury to the cat. They use these traps for trap-spay/neuter-release operations at feral cat colonies. Just take the trap, with the cat in it, to the vet and they should be able to give the cat an injection through the side of the trap. Talk with you vet about it first. Debbie dberry@mitre.org > I have a sick cat that came here as stray a few months ago. I think he > has an URI but there is no way in heck I can get him to a vet. He is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > he might runaway and no one else around here cares enough to take care > of a sick stray cat. Perhaps if you reveal where you are (city/state), a local rescuer could lend a paw. Sharon Talbert Friends of Campus Cats Seattle > I have a sick cat that came here as stray a few months ago. I think he > has an URI but there is no way in heck I can get him to a vet. He is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > he might runaway and no one else around here cares enough to take care > of a sick stray cat. Why don't you just leave him alone? He obviously doesn't want your help. Some creatures are just that way. They're solitary and they hate you no matter what you try to do. You should learn how to take a hint because he sure is giving them. You're the type of person who would take the lobster that someone sent you via a lobstergram and let it go in a fresh water pond in the dead of winter. And you'd think you were doing a good deed. Don't people like you have anything better to do? IBen G. > Why don't you just leave him alone? He obviously doesn't want your > help. Some creatures are just that way. They're solitary and they hate > you no matter what you try to do. You should learn how to take a hint > because he sure is giving them. Hmm spells like a troll. This cat will probably die if you don't help him. You're doing the right thing but you do need a trap, yes the trap will stress him he'll get over it, once you catch him throw a blanket over the trap it will calm him down. Trap him and get him to a vet he needs to be treated if he's ill enough to stop eating you'll probably loose him if you don't get him some help.
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