Unwise cat personal health decisions

[bunn]

Revolting Cat Things within.

Comments

[anna_wing]

Ugh. Abscesses are messy things, and always involve vast quantities of blood, pus and yowling. And then more yowling every day for a least a week, as you make your cat taco with a towel, smear on the medicinal manuka honey and dust with the antibiotic powder.

Though since yours has his abscess inside his jaw you are presumably obliged to let the antibiotics Do Their Thing on their own. I hope that he heals quickly.

While we are on the subject of Revolting Cat Things: I was reading a Gladys Mitchell novel from the 1930s, where schoolboy slang for vomiting was "catting". Which was so appropriate.

[ningloreth]

Kipling used 'catting', too, in Stalky and Co. I never understood the allusion until now!

[bunn]

I'd completely forgotten that! I don't think I'd ever made the connection with actual cats either.

[bunn]

He looks like he's cut his own throat! We are bathing it and the swelling is going down.

I don't think we've ever been given antibiotic powder though. I guess there are different vogues among vets!

[anna_wing]

Mine gives medicalised manuka honey, painkillers and antibiotic powder, usually on top of antibiotic and painkiller shots.

And teaches the technique for making the cat taco, which has come in remarkably useful.