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Cat had hair pulled off - need advice
I have an indoor cat, a beautiful 2 1/2 year old tuxedo. She wears (wore) a body collar so that I could take her out on the deck occasionally on a leash to chase the birds and enjoy the fresh air.
BUT.... a roommate recently moved in and when I wasn't home, took her out, but when she brought her back into the house left the leash on her. I believe the leash must have gotten tangled up in furniture. When I got home, my poor cat had worked her way out of the body collar and had torn off a patch of hair in the process. She must have been so scared. (What kind of person does that to an innocent cat???) The patch looked okay the first day, but now it's seeping a bit of blood. I can't afford to take her to the vet for another week. Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can take care of the wound in the meantime? Thanks |
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I'd be insisting that the roommate pay for the vet visit.
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General first aid should be the ticket until you can take her in. But yes, I would suggest your room mate foot the bill. And maybe some "GENTLE" education of the roommate on what "NOT" to do with "kitty".
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Keep it disinfected with hydrogen peroxide morning and night applied with a cotton ball. There's also a violet tincture to disinfect but although it's good it might dry the kitty's skin maybe a 1 time application and keep using the peroxide once or twice a day to keep it clean and away from bacteria as much as possible until you can take her to the vet. And if I was your roommate I would pay for the vet but again not everyone acts the way we would so who knows. Your roommate probably didn't mean any harm just was careless which resulted in your kitty being injured
Avoid to give your cat any medication for humans even if the bald patch hurts those are usually extremely bad for cats. Your furbaby will be OK I bet your roommate will never forget about the leash
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Not a good idea. Hydrogen peroxide does not have the disinfecting properties that it was once thought to have, and it also actually inhibits wound healing.
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just run to the pet store for some creme to keep it clean.
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It has always worked for me
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But it is known to kill cells, so I'd still recommend against using it regularly. Couple of links on the subject:
http://www.pilonidal.org/aftercare/cleaning.php Quote:
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So saline solution and/or soap
Thanks for the info. Lots of vets still tell you to use peroxide to clean wounds from incisions, they need an update. I bookmarked the websites.
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I'm glad sugarcatmom cleared that up for you, I was relieved to read her response! Hibitane soap is great, and as far as I know it doesn't inhibit healing. It is an antiseptic chlorhexadine soap used for surgical scrubbing. It's the pink soap.
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Yikes, I was relieved to see sugarcatmom's post! Good post!
I use Hibitane soap which is a chlorhexadine antiseptic soap used for surgical scrubbing which as far as I know doesn't inhibit healing.
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Have a look here: Dr. Peter Dobias DVM - Healing Solution - The Wound Care Revolution Dr Dobias is a register homeopathic vet & was at one time my cat's vet
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We used Hibitane on our horses for years. The dogs and cats would get it too. It always seemed to work well with no troubles healing. Horses are very prone to "proud flesh" and Hibitane didn't seem to cause that, in fact in some cases where the wounds are very large you want to encourage proud flesh and we were given a specific product to do that which I can't remember now. Peroxide and iodine have been known to inhibit healing for a long, long time. I remember being quite young taking first aid classes and coming home to tell my mom about it. Thanks for the link, but that's just an advertising video for a particular product.
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For cleansing a wound you can use a sterile saline solution on a sterile gauze pad. Good Luck.
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