Thank you guys for all the help. I did take the cat to the vet this morning and they knew exactly what it was - a blow fly! They didn't close the hole up, so I do still have to take care of her at home for awhile to keep it clean and watch for infection. She has decent odds if it doesn't infect...
As soon as you said spider, I got her out of the crate and took her blanket outside and looked it over. I did find pieces of what could have been a spider in the crate underneath her blanket. A leg and piece of a body from some kind of bug. I'm in North Carolina and I assume there are brown...
I'm new to this board because I didn't have a cat until a few days ago. I found a female fully grown cat - maybe six or seven years old - that was discarded in front of my house. She had recently had kittens, but they were nowhere to be found. She was limping and thin. I took her in and put her...