Recent Content by janiekay

Thanks for the info, and sharing your experiance. I actually feel much better about the possiblity of amputation. I don't know if the infection is to the bone yet, and I don't know if the bone has knitted together yet, either. An x-ray should show osteomyelitus if it is there, and will also...

I'm going to take her back in to the vet tomorrow. That way, I'll find out whether the infection is in the bone, whether the fracture is healing and whether or not we should remove the leg and just resolve a bad situation. Jane

The research I did on the broken leg indicated that pre-antibiotics, vets usually treated a broken femur with confinement and rest for 6-8 weeks, and the break usually healed with little complication. The biggest complication was that the leg sometimes healed a little shorter than the other...

I'm in a very small town, and there aren't alot of options. There isn't even a vet in my town, I've been taking my animals to the next town over. I could go to another town, but I wasn't really happy with that vet, so that is why I switched to this one. One of the downsides of country living...

I have dealt with urinary infections with my cats alot, and they always lost significant amounts of weight with the infections. Cats will go into liver failure if they don't eat, I think the common name is "fatty liver". You have to make sure that she eats...anything!!! If she is eating...

Hi all, I'm new to this site, and haven't been able to figure out the search tools. So, I figured I'd start a new thread. I have a cat that got a stress fracture of her femur. The vet tried to fix it with an external fixator. Long story short, not only did my cat bend the pins, they got...