The Caffeinated Penguin

Posted By matt on October 30, 2005

So, Toby, our youngest, has been battling something like “cat flu” for the past week – sleepiness, sneezing, runny nose, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc. He seemed to be coming out of it recently, however. On Thursday he ate some tuna. By Friday he was eating wet food again (we bought some especially for him since he liked the tuna), and tonight he ate some of his dry food. So, he seems to be better.

Then, he jumped up on my chair and I noticed that he had something yeechy on his chest. I figured it was some vomit or something, so I took him to clean him up. As I'm doing so, I notice a 1/4 laceration on his throat.

The assumtion is that he was feeling better and wrestling with one of the other cats (we found something that might have been blood on one of the claws of Arthur's back paws, and he's been avoiding Toby, like he feels bad or something) caught him and opened him up.

I cleaned and dressed it as best as I could, and Liz will take him to the vet tomorrow. For an extremity, I wouldn't bother, but throat wounds always give me cause for concern. He's breathing fine, there's hardly any loss of blood, and he's eating and otherwise behaving normally, so my guess is that nothing vital was hit. Still, we'll have the vet check it, and she'll probably clean it, put some antibacterial in it, and stitch it closed.

I'll let you all know how it turns out.

Night.

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