About a year ago, a personal friend was grieving over his dead tabby who was inflicted with wounds after figuring out in a fight with neighborhood toughies. It was a trouble sprouted from who gets to have the best garbage bins where lots of table orts or scraps are found inside. His cat named Marty was a beautiful Bombay cat but always gets the chance to leave the house. Well, maybe, he was fascinated by other cats lingering about in a garbage buffet just right across the street until one day, Marty found his fate with deep cut wounds, infections and eventually, Death. All over the country, there are lots of cat health bleeding issues that have been reported and majority of them are caused by “street fighting”.
As you know, you can’t avoid your cat strayed in backyards, in trash cans, in other people’s houses, out on the street, on the back street and God knows where else. Sooner or later, it might jump up a tree and decided to jump down again on the ground but that won’t hurt them because they’re good at that. You think so? What if she jumped on a broken bottle? What if she accidentally stepped in something that can make her hurt her paws? What if it’s a rusted nail? You may never know what will be happened next, right?
You know, you can do away will all of those things if you just try to be cautious and be aware of how to take care of your cat. If you’re practical enough, you should already have the knowledge and you can distinguish between prevention and cure. With humans, prevention is better than cure and it’s the same as with cats. If you want to save money, learn some practical ways on how to care for your cat and its health.
First and foremost, what you need to do all the time is to ensure your cat has plenty supply of fresh water to drink. Make your home safe for your cat. There are very curious little fella and just like children, they would reach at anything and it’s true to what they say about curiosity can kill a cat.
Every night, you have to keep kitty indoors or else you could be walking thousands of miles looking for him not knowing all the time that he is lying cold in a pavement just blocks away from your house. Every other day, make sure his litter box is wiped clean. If you don’t clean it, he won’t use it and when he won’t use it, he will pee anywhere or won’t pee at all and this can cause infection inside him.
You need to inform yourself that injured cats will react to pain by experiencing fear and panic. It is common for cats to be uncooperative during treatment and it might even try to bite or scratch you with their claws and you have to be patient with them. If you are in their place, you will also feel and do the same, right? So, when dealing with a frightened & injured cat, it’s important to secure the cat so it calms down and doesn’t aggravate the existing wound or cause additional harm to itself.
Today was the second month since Dorothy left and Nida was still shocked. She loved that cat so much and now, she only have old Patpat for a companion.
For all the cat lovers out there, when you see your tabby friend licking its paws and although you might find it normal or natural for them to do that, never hesitate to check and see if something is causing all those lapping and licking. It never hurts to learn more “cat health paw” information and that could save or ruin your cat’s life. You cat is always the outgoing type and you will never know what hit them or what they will hit, right?
