User talk:SamanaThe1st

Cat cuts, small puncture wounds way to cure fast??
These topics are not covered on the internet:

Hi, I have 3 indoor pets/cats. There are fights on occasion and they still have their back nails and 2 recently had a real classic "cat-fight" and ended up rolling down the stairs, one of the nails got stuck in the others back and was pulled out and we did not notice it for days.

Finally we pulled it out and cleaned it for a few days just using warm soap and water. He really seemed to enjoy this. I told my wife, "we DO have to stop the cleaning and let it dry up and scab over and have the scab fall off just as if you or I poked a hole in our forearm with a large nail or it will NEVER heal"

Well Vets have a thing I call a "Plastic Cone" that goes around the neck of cats to prevent them from being able to continually un-scab their wound at will and have the wound never heal. It gets tied on by a roll of gauze pad and one has to learn how tight or he/she will have it off in 4 seconds.

Well I now have a problem, this wound is in his back hip and he is somehow licking his forearm and making limited, but destructive to healing contact, and rubbing it on his wound to some limited amount as it is getting dry and he wants to pick it off. It is also possible and my wifes opinion,"he cannot get at it at all, it is the right on the walking hip muscle, that movement through walking and constant pressure/no pressure from sleeping on it is what is doing it"

I have called 2 Vets for advice, 1 said "put Neosporin on it" but I am thinking that makes it soft, never dry up and never completely scab up and "git er done" and the other Vet said "if there is no infection, ride it out but KEEP IT DRY DRY DRY" which goeas along with my idea. But if his movements of his hip and flipping when he is sleeping are causing continual 1 step forward, 2 days back type thing, I am totally confused.

Now he is unable to remove it, but he shakes its foundation and there is fresh blood that to me, makes me believe this time it has no chance to get better and in a way, THIS IS WHAT A VET GAVE ME for a previous time for very similar problem.

That time he totally could not get near it though with a licked forearm/or caused by place on hip and caused by walking that cause devastating healing damage. I don't see this talked about anywhere on the internet yet is probably such a common nagging problem for so many. I think this question needs to be addressed.

I am very sensitive to this as this little guy would never fight yet is the strongest toughest cat in house and last time he got one these, he looked so bad, and I felt so bad for him, I took it off ONE DAY TOO EARLY and he took it 21 days in reverse in one hour and I had to redo it. When I finally let him out the 2nd time, he had lost so much weight and was getting sickly, I would say he almost died, I think this is a very important, very common problem, and VERY HARD ISSUE to deal with and cannot believe I find NOTHING that is SPECIFIC TO THIS EXACT PROBLEM.

I have another problem with one cat, he decided he does not like the litter anymore unless forced to use it, we have one for each cat and keep them clean. He has decided though it much easier to back up against front/back/sliding/kitchen cabinet doors and go #1.

He also uses the window over the kitchen sinks and has totally ruined them probably = $3000 plus wood floors he has ruined near these doors, the sliding glass door and back door are also scrap should I want to sell this home. What should I do? He has ruined I bet $10,000 of my home EASY already.

Granted you can pay for $50 bottles of fluid to place all over your house that plug in the wall which I bought 2 once thinking they were permenent, and they worked at 75% level in that area then needed a refill in 2 weeks and the Vet gave me great reassurance when told me refills were only $35 each. Uhhhhhh, errrrrrrrr, ummmmmm, no thank you.

SamanaThe1st (talk) 17:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)