On January 27, 2010, I took my cat to the vet because I knew that he was not feeling well. After taking his temp, Boo was running 105 degrees fever. They kept him the rest of the day and gave him fluids through an IV. The also gave him 2 Baytril injections at 22.7 mg each. I was able to take him home late that afternoon, with the understanding that I would take him back the next day so he could be hooked back up to the IV. The vet left the shunt in his arm. I took him back the next day, left him him all day and picked him up late that afternoon. Again, he had 2 Baytril injections at 22.7 mg each. He still had fever, but was feeling much better. On day 3, the same routine, but he was given 1 Baytril injection 68mg. He is still running a low grade fever but looking and feeling much better. When I picked him up that afternoon, the vet met me and said that he is curling his right back paw toes under but he should be fine in a couple of days, but I was instructed to bring him back in the next morning. (We all agreed he would be less stressed if he could sleep at home everyone night but be brought back to the vet hospital the next morning.). When I got home with him on day 3 and put him on my hardwood floors, I could not believe what I was seeing. The poor cat could not walk on his back right paw. His toes were curling under and he could not put any weight on his paw. He walked fine when I took him in that morning. I called the vet and told her how upset I was because he was being treated for a fever and he was walking normally when I left him this morning. I asked her if I could bring him immediately back to their office because I was shocked to see what I was seeing. When I took him back , she said that this is what she had noticed that day and she thinks that she hit a nerve when she injected him, but he should be walking normally in a couple of days.
On day 4, I took him back to the vets office that morning. He had no fever and they removed the shunt from his arm. I took him back home that morning. My friend is a vet and owns the clinic that Boo has been going to. The problem is my friend, Dr. Laura, had been sick herself, so I was seeing another vet that works there only part time as a fill in.
Today is Feb 25, almost a month after his first visit to the vet, and he is still walking flat on his right back paw. He is not curling his toes under any more. He progressively, over time, quit that. Sometimes when I am carrying him and I go to put him down, he seems to have a hard time straightening out that back paw so he can put in on the floor.
I do know that he had a bunch of blood work done, which came back normal. He had a CBC, full chemistry panel on Jan 27 and again on Feb 1. The only thing that was a little off was his potassium, which they said was on the low side of normal. At my request, they exrayed his foot to see if there were any broken bones and there were not. My friend, Dr Laura, who has taken over his case now, said that she see this in diabetic cats, but according to his blood work, he is not diabetic. She assures me, even though she was sick and not there at the clinic while Boo was an out patient, that he was not harmed or mistreated.
Dr Laura is still reseaching the problem, but she seems to think that the fill in vet, who gives injections in the leg, hit a nerve and caused nerve damage and that, in time, the nerve will rejenerate itself. She said his flat foot due to the injection is rare, and in her 25 years of practice, this is the 2nd time she has seen this. Dr Laura said that she personally gives shots in the back and not the leg because of the risk of just this problem.
So, while Dr Laura is reading up on this and researching Boo's flat back paw, I am wandering if he will ever walk right again. He is a bit quicker then he was at first, but still has a horrible limp because of the flat paw, and not able to jump onto his favorite places like he used to could. He doesn't seem to be in any pain, but his right back paw seems lighter and thinner then his left back paw, as if he has lost muscle mass or something ...... its hard to describe, but it seems to be more floppy then his left back paw.
Any advice, thoughts, diagnosis or help would be much appreciated!! Thank you!
On day 4, I took him back to the vets office that morning. He had no fever and they removed the shunt from his arm. I took him back home that morning. My friend is a vet and owns the clinic that Boo has been going to. The problem is my friend, Dr. Laura, had been sick herself, so I was seeing another vet that works there only part time as a fill in.
Today is Feb 25, almost a month after his first visit to the vet, and he is still walking flat on his right back paw. He is not curling his toes under any more. He progressively, over time, quit that. Sometimes when I am carrying him and I go to put him down, he seems to have a hard time straightening out that back paw so he can put in on the floor.
I do know that he had a bunch of blood work done, which came back normal. He had a CBC, full chemistry panel on Jan 27 and again on Feb 1. The only thing that was a little off was his potassium, which they said was on the low side of normal. At my request, they exrayed his foot to see if there were any broken bones and there were not. My friend, Dr Laura, who has taken over his case now, said that she see this in diabetic cats, but according to his blood work, he is not diabetic. She assures me, even though she was sick and not there at the clinic while Boo was an out patient, that he was not harmed or mistreated.
Dr Laura is still reseaching the problem, but she seems to think that the fill in vet, who gives injections in the leg, hit a nerve and caused nerve damage and that, in time, the nerve will rejenerate itself. She said his flat foot due to the injection is rare, and in her 25 years of practice, this is the 2nd time she has seen this. Dr Laura said that she personally gives shots in the back and not the leg because of the risk of just this problem.
So, while Dr Laura is reading up on this and researching Boo's flat back paw, I am wandering if he will ever walk right again. He is a bit quicker then he was at first, but still has a horrible limp because of the flat paw, and not able to jump onto his favorite places like he used to could. He doesn't seem to be in any pain, but his right back paw seems lighter and thinner then his left back paw, as if he has lost muscle mass or something ...... its hard to describe, but it seems to be more floppy then his left back paw.
Any advice, thoughts, diagnosis or help would be much appreciated!! Thank you!