Last night just before bedtime, I was standing on a single-step stepstool checking to see if the potatoes for planting had started sprouting. The stepstool is one of those metal kind that folds up flat for storage. So, I'm standing on the stool, which is near the cat food storage containers. Hannah always follows me over there and she generally jumps up between my legs and hops on the tops of the food containers thinking she'd getting some crunchies. I don't know what happened, but she lost her footing and fell in the 6" gap between the step stool and the hutch. Then she starts SCREAMING!!! I look down and the little "toe" of her back left paw is stuck in the HINGE of the stool!
Every time I tried to reach toward her to get her paw unstuck, she'd try to bite me and scratch me. We were both scared to death. She's hissing, screaming, and crying and I'm yelling for Mark to come help me. I knew I was going to have to take whatever type of scratching or biting she was going to mete out because I HAD to get her to stop moving so we could get her toe unstuck. (She'd already managed to flip herself over and I was so scared she was going to break her foot.) When I reached for her, she clamped her teeth down on my left hand...HARD (!!!) and I scruffed her with my right hand and she stopped moving. Mark reached between my legs and was able to get the stool folded enough to get her toe out. She managed to limp out of the kitchen, quickly!
We checked her out and there was no open wound, bleeding, or massive swelling. She was limping on it last night, but didn't let that keep her from eating Tumbles' food. LOL This morning, she wasn't limping, but she also wasn't wanting to walk on it too much. She's bright eyed and alert, eating and using the box normally. I called the vet's office and they told us to keep an eye on her and if we notice it swelling, turning colors (bruising), or she starts limping too much to bring her in immediately and they'd do an x-ray and probably give her something for the inflammation and pain.
It scared Tumbleweed so much that he wouldn't go in the kitchen last night at all. Every noise startled him while we were finishing cleaning up the dishes and getting ready for bed. He was so nervous and concerned about Hannah. All I could do when it was over was cry!
I have 2 nice puncture wounds on the palm of my left hand. Last night I washed my hand well with antibacterial soap and warm water, then treated the wounds with hydrogen peroxide. I put Neosporin on all my wounds and bandaged it up. I brought epsom salt with me to work today so I can soak my hand while I'm eating. My hand is a little swollen, so I'm keeping a close watch on it.
To think what could've happened is so scary!
Every time I tried to reach toward her to get her paw unstuck, she'd try to bite me and scratch me. We were both scared to death. She's hissing, screaming, and crying and I'm yelling for Mark to come help me. I knew I was going to have to take whatever type of scratching or biting she was going to mete out because I HAD to get her to stop moving so we could get her toe unstuck. (She'd already managed to flip herself over and I was so scared she was going to break her foot.) When I reached for her, she clamped her teeth down on my left hand...HARD (!!!) and I scruffed her with my right hand and she stopped moving. Mark reached between my legs and was able to get the stool folded enough to get her toe out. She managed to limp out of the kitchen, quickly!
We checked her out and there was no open wound, bleeding, or massive swelling. She was limping on it last night, but didn't let that keep her from eating Tumbles' food. LOL This morning, she wasn't limping, but she also wasn't wanting to walk on it too much. She's bright eyed and alert, eating and using the box normally. I called the vet's office and they told us to keep an eye on her and if we notice it swelling, turning colors (bruising), or she starts limping too much to bring her in immediately and they'd do an x-ray and probably give her something for the inflammation and pain.
It scared Tumbleweed so much that he wouldn't go in the kitchen last night at all. Every noise startled him while we were finishing cleaning up the dishes and getting ready for bed. He was so nervous and concerned about Hannah. All I could do when it was over was cry!
I have 2 nice puncture wounds on the palm of my left hand. Last night I washed my hand well with antibacterial soap and warm water, then treated the wounds with hydrogen peroxide. I put Neosporin on all my wounds and bandaged it up. I brought epsom salt with me to work today so I can soak my hand while I'm eating. My hand is a little swollen, so I'm keeping a close watch on it.
To think what could've happened is so scary!
..poor girl...
I'm glad you went and hope your hand heals up well. 
