Please Help My Cat! He has a severe laceration and i dont have enough money for vet?
I know that rubbing alcohol (about $1.50) can clean out an infection and that a good antibiotic (like the kind you buy for humans in a tube at the grocery store in the first aid section for about $8-9) will work Now there are three problems. The cat will be active and you can’t keep her down while you try to use the above items on her leg so you’d need help…and she will be screaming like crazy, biting and fussing. Neither product could you cover so after you rubbed it in you’d have to wipe it off. You can’t put a band aid on her so she would need a cone collar, and those you can only get at the vets. The vet can medicate the leg easier because the cat would get a shot to calm her down while they work on her. And finally, at the end of the vet treatment they would give her a pill to stop the infection from spreading inside her body, and that’s one of the main reasons you’d have to take the cat to the vet. Now most people can’t afford to take a cat to the vet but you are a responsible
Everyone has some good ideas & I hope that they work for you. Keep in mind, however, that infection can spread throughout the body, EVEN after the original wound has been treated. You don’t say how he got the laceration. If it was from a fight with another cat & if your cat is not current on vaccinations, he could have other problems. There are several diseases that can be passed from one cat to another. If you can’t afford vet care for this, are you able to afford shots/spay/neuter surgery/etc? If not, you need to find this cat a home where he can be taken care of properly.
