Good news about the old cat, Tigra, and her gimpy leg
Yesterday I posted about our concern for Tigra, our 12-year-old cat, because she had started limping and refusing to put any weight on her right front leg.
The bad news is -- my son broke up with his veterinary girl friend. The good news is -- she has enough bond of friendship with us that she graciously came by the house today (her day off, too) to check out Tigra's leg.
She's not certain the cause of the soreness, but it doesn't appear to be the result of an abscess form a cat bit, nor any detectable foreign object stuck in her paw. She found no evidence from manually probing the area of a fracture. She concluded Tigra may simply have a touch of arthritis -- or a hidden would/bite location that's going to develop into an abscess. She told us if Tigra's not putting more weight on the leg within a couple of days to bring her by the clinic for x-rays.
Good news for the whole family. It always amazes me how strongly we become attached to our pets. Just as with kids, we feel the pain ourselves when our pets suffer, don't we?
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