I can home and found a mark on each side of his face, thought a dog had attacked him, or something. Today I cleaned it again and noticed a perfectly round hole on the right side, in the middle of all the stained fur, and what looked like an exit wound on the other side.
UPDATE: I took my cat to a 24/7 vet and they thought it might be a cat bite. They offered to sedate him, clean the wound, and then give antibiotics, but they quoted me a price that could be over $2,000 at most. I’m strapped for cash until pay day. The past two months have been a little tough with expenses. I opted for a $103 antibiotic and a $75 visit fee, which was their second proposed option.
UPDATE: I have made a PayPal Fundraiser. I went against my own concerns for privacy here, since PayPal won’t allow me to hide my name. I worry that the more cruel commenters will somehow attack me. I’m going to have to take that risk, in order to fundraiser for Blue’s medical treatment, though. It is what it is. I am so grateful for all the kind people who messaged me and offered to help financially. I feel so bad asking for help this way, but it will definitely help me to obtain treatment for him before payday. Here is the link, if anyone feels like helping. I don’t know the exact cost for it at the local vet, so I posted a goal that corresponds to the estimate given by the 24 hour vet, as a worst case scenario. Anything helps!
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/93OoEyefdT
ANOTHER UPDATE: I applied some ointment to his face this morning on the RIGHT side, and applying pressure caused FLUID TO EXPEL IMMEDIATELY from the LEFT side. Call me crazy, but I have trouble believing this is a cat bite.
In response to people calling me a bad cat owner for letting my cat be outside, I need to clarify something for you. This wasn’t my cat until this injury occurred. I live with an elderly relative who just had a stroke. He began putting this cat outside, after he adopted him from a local shelter. I feed the cat everyday and have began calling it my cat, because I live here, too, and now handle many of his responsibilities. The cat will now be an indoor only cat, just like my own personal cats were, when I owned my own home and wasn’t caring for family.
I will post pictures from the veterinary clinic when I take him for the remainder of his treatment. If the fundraiser reaches its goal today, or tomorrow, I will take him to the 24 hour vet, again.
UPDATE: I was denied for Care Credit today.
VIDEO from the emergency vet’s office, taken on 04/19/2024. Blue kept purring through the whole ordeal, despite his injuries. https://youtube.com/shorts/my9pSGAzvMA?si=Re5U5qpBZ_8lqRxY
UPDATE: The Fundraiser has passed $1300 so far. Blue’s face is not oozing as much from the wounds, as it previously observed. My goal is to take him to a local vet tomorrow for treatment. I hope they can offer me a lower quote than the $2238.60 that was quoted by the 24 hour vet. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far! If you haven’t helped yet, but would like to do so, please visit the PayPal link to find the fundraiser. Thank you all!
UPDATE: 04/22/2024 I am currently at the local veterinary hospital with Blue. The vet just examined him and said that it could possibly be a BB. She wants to check with an X-ray of his skull. She also wants to rule out any tooth access, but noted that one side looked infected and the other did not, which could be a result of the infection above, working its way down to his jaws after being shot, or possibly attacked. I am taking photo and video. I will try to get a picture of his skull X-ray after she returns.
That’s what I first thought! Today when I was cleaning it, though, it looked like a small round bb had passed through. When I cleaned it, fluid came out of the hole, along with more blood. That’s when I started to wonder if someone near us had shot him with a bb. Do you think a bb could have caused this? I doubt an actual bullet did, but it’s a perfectly round hole when I look closer at it.
I feel like it would be hard for a BB gun to actually go through an entire cat. I’ve been shot with a BB gun many times because I have shitty cousins and at most it just left a giant welt. If it was a BB gun that was one hell of a BB gun
A air rifle could go through a cat, I have one and it shot through a coffee can at 50 feet, and they shoot bbs
That cat would missing teeth and other shit if that was the case. It got bit. Not disputing a bb through air rifle or whatnot but no way that happened.
I doubt it was a bb too, I think it would be dead if it got hit with a air rifle, I assume something grabbed it and punctured it.
Same. I feel like it got bit or perhaps a barbwire fence or something. Just hope it’s ok.
Ah, okay. Wow. I’m sorry your cousins were so awful to you! As a kid, my parents told me a distant cousin put a small camping blade through the back of my head when I was a baby. They cut him out of all family discussions after that, and I never met him. I think he showed up at one of my sport’s tournaments once, yelled something towards us, and kept on walking. Yeah, family can be weird. I’m glad you’re okay now, though! You seem to be a BB gun expert, at least, now…
Lol it’s all good, they were jerks but we were just kids. Thanks. I know nothing of modern day bb guns but the kind of gun I’m thinking of could not have gone through like that. I think the poor baby got bit by a dog. Have you taken it to the vet? If it did get bit it would be good to verify in case Kitty needs antibiotics or something. Does your cat go outside? If you can’t afford a vet visit I know someone in here would likely help out, cats are a big deal on the Internet lol.
It’s going to be tough this month. I have less than $500 until pay day, but I’m going to call them in the morning and ask how much they would charge me just to diagnose it.
He does go outside. We didn’t use to let our cats outside, but then we thought they might be depressed, so we let them spend a little time outside. We didn’t notice any dead birds. In fact, they let the birds come into the garage and they don’t even react to them, so we figured it wasn’t harmful to the environment to let our two be outside. The neighbors are not close to us. There is no way a stray BB from their house made it this far to hit our cat. Our cats stay near the house, and never leave the lawn. They’re pretty old, and they’re both fixed. They aren’t fighters. Someone, or something, had to walk onto our property to attack him at close range.