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Cat Forum / General Topics / December 2006cat wound
I have an outdoor semi-feral cat 3yrs old. She has gashes/wounds around her tail, one on each hind hip, about a quarter in size. Happened about a week ago, and I'm concerned that she has an infection. She eats, but seems a little lethargic compared to normal. Ideas what might've happened? Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? bob > Ideas what might've happened? > Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? Who cares what attacked her? VET NOW!!! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> Ideas what might've happened? >> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? >> > Who cares what attacked her? > > VET NOW!!! Yes. There are many animals that attack cats.....Other cats, (males, probably) dogs, raccoons, and last (but not least) human beings. Just take her to the vet. She could have been hurt going over (or under) a fence....... >>> Ideas what might've happened? >>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > her to the vet. She could have been hurt going over (or under) a > fence....... she goes under a fence behind my unit everyday, into a forest to sleep ( I live in florida), but i doubt she injured it there -- it's a pretty good wound, wouldn't be from going under the fence.. i plan on taking her to the vet tomorrow either way, just was wondering if raccoons had a habit of biting other animals in this area -- there are raccoons also in the area..my cat is 3, has been vaccinated every yr for leukemia/rabies, etc.... bob >>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > bob Yes. Raccoons will sometimes kill cats. And I have had them get hurt going under cyclone fences, where the heavy duty wire is close to the ground. There could be another fence in your neighborhood that she tried to wiggle under. They can also get hurt by sleeping under automobile hoods on a warm engine, and then when the owner starts it up, they can be hurt or killed by the fan. (I don't mean to worry you, but there are many hazards for outside cats)......We have four outside cats and we worry about them all the time....The newer autos usually are too crowded under the hood for a cat to get there, but there are still lots of older cars and pick-up trucks around. Another big hazard for cats is jumping into places where they don't belong.....My friend had one trapped in his car trunk for two weeks. (It survived the experience somehow) another friend had one jump in the clothes dryer, and his wife didn't see it and started it up....About 5 minutes later he went into the laundry area and heard the "clunk-clunk) of the cat in the dryer and he stopped it and retrieved the cat. It was traumatized and he took it immediately to the vet. The vet gave it a valium shot and the cat slept for several hours, and didn't remember the experience at all. He said that it jumped back into the dryer a couple of days later just as if nothing had happened. I had one get trapped under the camper shell on my pickup for a couple of days once, but that didn't hurt her at all. As soon as I missed her, I went out and looked there and found her. A couple of years ago I read about a cat that jumped into a car trunk and got carried from the SF Bay area all the way to Seattle. Fortunately, it had a name tag on, and the people found it and returned it back to its owners a week or so later.... >>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > bob You're in Florida? - How about gators? >>>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> > You're in Florida? - How about gators? Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address in United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia Also If you are in Florida YOU KNOW ABOUT THE RABIES ALERT >>>>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address in > United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia > Also If you are in Florida YOU KNOW ABOUT THE RABIES ALERT My cats are all vaccinated every summer. I'd assume this protects them?? bob > Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address in > United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia I don't want to disappoint you but Adelphia head office might be in Pennsylvania and they may offer service in Florida just the same: http://www.adelphia.com/local_offers/index.cfm >> Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address >> in United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.adelphia.com/local_offers/index.cfm Than my bad and I will apologize. Too many trolls come to this group. I just saw his other post in another group. Thank you for pointing that out. My apologies to BOB >>> Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address >>> in United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > My apologies to BOB My grandson came from Wyoming to visit us here in Oregon, and he had a laptop with a wireless connection.....He could get on the internet and get his email from our living room without plugging it into the wall, and he said he was, "pariciting from someone in the neighborhood who has a wireless connection" so, my question is, how could you tell from the server where someone is originally from? Like cell phones, they can apparently address the web and their email system from anywhere..... >>>> Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address >>>> in United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > server where someone is originally from? Like cell phones, they can > apparently address the web and their email system from anywhere..... There are programs that you can trace right back to their host and their email even if they use someone else wireless network. This was me jumping the gun and not fully tracing all the way back. Again I apologize >>>>> Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp >>>>> address in United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > This was me jumping the gun and not fully tracing all the way back. Again > I apologize I guess that's reasonable....It isn't where they physically enter the network that counts, but where their email server is, and pockets their cash every month that counts.......:^) > My grandson came from Wyoming to visit us here in Oregon, and he had a > laptop with a wireless connection.....He could get on the internet and get > his email from our living room without plugging it into the wall, and he > said he was, "pariciting from someone in the neighborhood who has a wireless > connection" That's because your grandson was using his provider's webmail interface. > so, my question is, how could you tell from the server where > someone is originally from? Like cell phones, they can apparently address > the web and their email system from anywhere..... There is no webnews interface. If you don't subscribe to a news service such as Giganews, Supernews, Free University of Berlin, etc., you have to connect to your provider's nntp server. If you have a dial-up account or if one is provided to your DSL subscription, you may call long distance to your provider but, of course, people seldom do this. In Bob's case, he was connected to his provider's news server, which happened to offer service in Fla. No doubt about it. Please tell what this means: "There is no webnews interface. If you don't subscribe to a news service such as Giganews, Supernews, Free University of Berlin, etc., you have to connect to your provider's nntp server." I dont understand what Giganews, Supernews, Free University of Berlin are. Why would anyone want to pay to get this newsgroup when it is freely available. Do Giganews, Supernews, Free University of Berlin provide email connections like Yahoo.mail or does it provide internet access like AOL does? or is it something else? > > My grandson came from Wyoming to visit us here in Oregon, and he had a > > laptop with a wireless connection.....He could get on the internet and get [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > In Bob's case, he was connected to his provider's news server, which happened > to offer service in Fla. No doubt about it. > I dont understand what Giganews, Supernews, Free University of Berlin > are. Why would anyone want to pay to get this newsgroup when it is > freely available. It is freely available if your provider has an nntp server or if he subscribes himself to a news service. There are costs involved. Though nntp service is one of the oldest service on the net, even older than http, some ISPs hope that, by keeping the matter quiet, users will forget about it and be satisfied with chatting. To those who insist on having the service, they suggest to take a subscription to a news provider. Admittedly, those large providers have excellent completion (no messages missing in the threads), huge retention (sometimes close to a year), provide the binaries (sex pictures, warez, whatever) at decent speeds, etc. You use Google. Google pays for the service hoping to get you into its net one way or the other, advertising, mainly. Google began offering this service after they bought DejaNews, which was going bankrupt. > Do Giganews, Supernews, Free University of Berlin > provide email connections like Yahoo.mail or does it provide internet > access like AOL does? No. > or is it something else? Only the news. You can learn more about usenet here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENET> >>>>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Better question If he is in Florida like myself why is his isp address in > United States - Pennsylvania - Coudersport - Adelphia i live in delray bch, and adelphia is my cable/internet provider. bob >>>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> > You're in Florida? - How about gators? I live in quite a developed part of Palm Beach County, no water or gators, but behind my house is a nice preserve around 5+ of forest. My 3 semi-ferals (all siblings, 3 yrs old, all fixed, vaccinated) all hang out on my patio and then in that preserve togther. Only possums and raccoons there. None of them ever had an issue. The girl seems to be getting much better though, she eats well, looks normal, the wounds seem to have healed. bob >>>>>> Ideas what might've happened? >>>>>> Is there an animal that characteristically would attack her there? [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > bob Well, she's lucky....As Friedrich Nietzhe said, "That which does not kill me, only makes me stronger." - Perhaps she will avoid whatever/whoever it was next time...... |
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