Guildedagain
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We were sleeping last night after coming back late from 5 yr old grandkid's Bday party, with our black cat Iris at the foot of the bed, when this horrible catfight sound emanated from the back porch. Luckily wife got up and went out the door to stop it. I thought it was the neighbors cat that keeps coming up and harassing our cat daily getting eaten and I wasn't going to do anything.
She comes back in says there's a black cat out there, in pretty bad shape, probably a goner.
So then I go out with big DeWalt work light to try and see what it was did it.
There's a bird screeching in a tree, a nightbird, nothing visible like a big owl, and also saw an eyeball shining a little farther away, and again in a fruit tree but never saw anything.
I put the injured cat in a carrier, he was hunkered down at the bottom of the cellar stairs, blood everywhere, left eye hanging out - prolapsed, which can be put back in if not overly damaged - pee and poop everywhere and from the smell of it a male, but we've never seen him before. I didn't want whatever it was did it to him to come back and eat him.
People are known to dump cats in out area, as well as a growing stray cat population. Three have been adopted just in the last year alone, including ours, which was actually two for a while, but then that cat, unspayed female tabby, went back into heat and disappeared, never saw her again.
Three of our previous cats have disappeared without a trace, at night.
This is the first time in 20 years of cat ownership here that a cat's been mauled on our porch like that.
Our cat was pretty freaked out and hid the rest of the night in the house, but was back on the bed in the morning, without much desire to go out.
Hard to sleep the rest of the night, and I expected to be burying this cat in the morning.
But he's alive, eye going cloudy, optic nerve damage, needs to be removed.
Local vets are closed on a Sunday, and the pet emergency clinic in the big city down the road quoted me an insane $1000 to remove the eye.
Anyone here have vet experience? I'm guessing in the wild the eye would eventually fall off on it own.
The internet is so screwy, as well as people that most of the info available is about people getting surgery for "cat eyes" to get their eyes to look like cat eyes with surgery, Botox, etc.
This is him, got good muscles on him, not a starving cat, maybe dumped here yesterday or traveled here on his own looking for love in all the wrong places.
The whole time we had two cats in heat here, not a single Tom came around, turns out they are not as good a hunters or survivors as the girl kitties, according to a gal down the road with lots of cats, horses, etc.
She comes back in says there's a black cat out there, in pretty bad shape, probably a goner.
So then I go out with big DeWalt work light to try and see what it was did it.
There's a bird screeching in a tree, a nightbird, nothing visible like a big owl, and also saw an eyeball shining a little farther away, and again in a fruit tree but never saw anything.
I put the injured cat in a carrier, he was hunkered down at the bottom of the cellar stairs, blood everywhere, left eye hanging out - prolapsed, which can be put back in if not overly damaged - pee and poop everywhere and from the smell of it a male, but we've never seen him before. I didn't want whatever it was did it to him to come back and eat him.
People are known to dump cats in out area, as well as a growing stray cat population. Three have been adopted just in the last year alone, including ours, which was actually two for a while, but then that cat, unspayed female tabby, went back into heat and disappeared, never saw her again.
Three of our previous cats have disappeared without a trace, at night.
This is the first time in 20 years of cat ownership here that a cat's been mauled on our porch like that.
Our cat was pretty freaked out and hid the rest of the night in the house, but was back on the bed in the morning, without much desire to go out.
Hard to sleep the rest of the night, and I expected to be burying this cat in the morning.
But he's alive, eye going cloudy, optic nerve damage, needs to be removed.
Local vets are closed on a Sunday, and the pet emergency clinic in the big city down the road quoted me an insane $1000 to remove the eye.
Anyone here have vet experience? I'm guessing in the wild the eye would eventually fall off on it own.
The internet is so screwy, as well as people that most of the info available is about people getting surgery for "cat eyes" to get their eyes to look like cat eyes with surgery, Botox, etc.
This is him, got good muscles on him, not a starving cat, maybe dumped here yesterday or traveled here on his own looking for love in all the wrong places.
The whole time we had two cats in heat here, not a single Tom came around, turns out they are not as good a hunters or survivors as the girl kitties, according to a gal down the road with lots of cats, horses, etc.
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- reminds me of our dear Piki who got attacked - most likely a neighbour woman tried to kill him - he looked a lot like this one - but we got him fixed - he lived happily another 6-8 years.
I highly object to taking away a cat's defenses.
