I need vet help

suki1964

Has this board been taken over by trolls?

Only advice these type of posts should require is SEE YOUR VET and move on.How many of thses threads end up in fights with the OP nowhere to be seen? Perhaps they are sitting back sniggering away to themselves at the furore they have caused, just waiting to dive in and stir the pot with other id's they have at the ready just for such moments?

foreign_correspondent

yes, probably Suki. We do seem to have a few at the moment. I hope its a theoretical cat, not a real one, at any rate! However, if it is a real cat I hope the Op returns and reads the thread and gets the cat to someone who can asssess the damage properly - ie. a vet!!

CiciBaltimore

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

..umm this medical advice...

this is not medical advise i am to believe, because saying someone should wash paws is not medical advise. i say yes, perixide is ok as you can buy peroxide at the shop. so it is the same as you saying water and salt, yes,? then i say cats are good for being resistent to infection and vets cant do much about that. it is not medical advise either. antibiotic for missing claws is bad for a cat you know,? it is bad for the immunity. tell me, what do you think vet can do for a common cat problem,?

Mandy44

*Sue* wrote: »

A vet WILL do something.
He will give an antibiotic injection to fight any infection.
And something to bathe the paw in. Possibly a painkiller too.
.

Of course the vet will do something he's running a business, he'll give it unneccessary antibiotics and bathe the paw. Cats can quite easily clean their own wounds and fight any infections. As for the cat being in pain the cat is bound to show the pain of walking on his paws at the moment but pain relief is very very unliely to be needed unless he's lost a foot. All this talk of giving the cat pain relief is most likely going to encourage the OP to give it something which is a big NO NO as cats dont have enzeymes we do to break down analgesics like us and it will more than likely kill the cat.

Cats aren't little babies in fur unlike most the posters seem to think and can quite happily overcome injuries from fights without any need for the vet.

frivolous_fay

CiciBaltimore wrote: »

this is not medical advise i am to believe, because saying someone should wash paws is not medical advise. i say yes, perixide is ok as you can buy peroxide at the shop.

Eh? You can buy lots of things at the shop...

*Sue*

Mandy, you are wrong. A cat that has been in a fight will need antibitiotics, if the claws have been ripped out. cats go in soil/litter to toilet, and use paws to dig, so there is a high chance the claw pads will get infected.

Thats it from me I am staying off this thread,

I loathe ignorant/stupid/misinfomed/heartless people and you have all these in abundance and more.

CiciBaltimore

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Eh? You can buy lots of things at the shop...

yes it is true. so for me to say that bathe the cat paw in peroxide is good. if I say to bathe cat paw in something only a vet can give, then it is medical advise.

CiciBaltimore

*Sue* wrote: »

Mandy, you are wrong. A cat that has been in a fight will need antibitiotics, if the claws have been ripped out. cats go in soil/litter to toilet, and use paws to dig, so there is a high chance the claw pads will get infected.

Thats it from me I am staying off this thread,

I loathe ignorant/stupid/misinfomed/heartless people and you have all these in abundance and more.

it is not good to give cat antibiotics. how you like it if i say you are stupid and heartless for want to give them to the cat,? you dont like it, no,? so dont say it about me,.

Rachel83

CiciBaltimore wrote: »

it is not good to give cat antibiotics. how you like it if i say you are stupid and heartless for want to give them to the cat,? you dont like it, no,? so dont say it about me,.

Why isn't it good to give the cat antibiotics if needed? Which no one knows if the cat does or not at the moment. That judgement is for a vet to make and not you.

foreign_correspondent

oh, yet more medical advice from CiCi who clearly knows better than the vets (see underlined for the key pearls of wisdom here)!!

CiciBaltimore wrote: »

this is not medical advise i am to believe, because saying someone should wash paws is not medical advise. i say yes, perixide is ok as you can buy peroxide at the shop. so it is the same as you saying water and salt, yes,? then i say cats are good for being resistent to infection and vets cant do much about that. it is not medical advise either. antibiotic for missing claws is bad for a cat you know,? it is bad for the immunity. tell me, what do you think vet can do for a common cat problem,?

So antibiotics are bad, but infection is fine then, huh? I think its for a vet to decde which poses the greatest risk here - infection in even small wounds can be dangerous.

and as for "tell me, what do you think vet can do for a common cat problem,?" - well, I dunno, because I am not a vet, so I would have to ask them what they can do about it...

"peroxide is ok as you can buy it in the shops" - well, you can also buy rat poison, chanel number 5 and blue gloss paint - does not mean they are all ideal to bathe wounds in though does it? and its not "the same as you saying water and salt, yes,?" Well, no, actually - saline (salt water) is in first aid kits, is recognised to be gentle and safe, and is commonly used to clean wounds, human and animal and its use is often advised to aid post operative healing.

Advising someone to treat a sick animal at home, not to bother seeing the vet because they will do nothing, and to avoid antibiotics is of course medical advice, and as such not appropriate here.

Honestly, the lack of logic on here astounds me sometimes.