People in my neighborhood have cats and leave them outside, unaltered, and just let them repoputate and/or get ran over. So we have aferal colony doe to this and I am positive that we are the only family in the neighborhood taking care of them, feeding them, and despriatly (sp) trying to trap them with our trap.
In the last week 4 of our ferals that have avoid our attempts to trap them, have been ran over, on the interstate that is right behind my house. All of those ferals that got ran over were in our cat enclosure at one point, but we put plastic all around the cage, leaving air vent-too keep them warm in the freezing cold. For some reason this year, after I put the plastic on, it created a sort of vacume when the wind blew-the air would get in the cage, but there was only one way in and out for air, so the pressure built up until the cage door came open. This was a month ago. We have 2 enclosures, only one opened, but half of our cats (all of the cats in that one cage) were ALL out. So we set the trap, and trapped the cats, and still are trying to get the last of them. So far we have 2 left to trap (that we know of, not sure how many, if any more kittens there are).
Anyways we caught several kittens that we had never seen before that were ferals (I put them in the enclosures with the others), you can tell when you have a feral in the trap-haha. One kitten I cornered between the shed and the cat enclosure-I saw that she was now walking right, sort of falling on one back foot. I ended up getting her and took her to the vet.
Anyway, we took her to the vet, after hours, with all of those charges, he did a xray-nothing, watched her walk, felt here, bent this, pulled that and said that it must be a nerve that she could have pinched in a fence or something of that sort. He said she doesn't seem to be in pain, wormed her, and told me to have her on cage rest and call him back in a week and tell him how she is and we will work from there.
This was 2 days ago, I have been taking her out daily massaging the leg, bending it like she is walking on it-just trying to get back the proper function. She is a little trooper, and has never hissed, offered to bite, or even growl. In fact if she forgets where she is and that you are holding her, she will purr, till you move, then she stops and tries to get away, lol.
My whole point of telling you guys my long and drawn out story is that today I took her out to see if there are any improvments, and now she drags one leg, walking with the other, THEN switches legs-dragging the other and using the other. At no point has she dragged both of them at the same time (back legs). Right now I have her in my room, in a med sized wire dog kennel, w/a short litterbox, bed, water, and food.
Does anyone have any reconmendations for me to make her more comfy, or what some other things I can do to help her? Does anyone dissagree with anything above that my vet said? I am worried that it could be a pinched spine or something. I promised her though, that if it is something that is irreversable, painful, and will make her miserable, that I will take her pain and misery away and not let her suffer. I have not given up hope that it's curable yet though, but I have a baaaad feeling.
Please, from the bottom of my heart, help me...
