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If your cat gets lost and is gone for days and you find her- please let her rest 24 hours but then get her to the vet for a check-up. Squirrel vanished for three days last week. She finally came home and she was crying in a peculiar way. I went to scoop her up, and she was filthy. She had stool all over her back legs, tail and rear.
I took her in to give her a rear end bath and see if there were any visible wounds (there weren't) I put her in kitty jail for 24 hours, gave her fluids and food, and monitored her, and she seemed okay. So I let her out into the house after 24 hours. This morning I rushed her to the vet. She had a high fever and a bacterial load in her gut. Her third eyelids were almost covering her eyes she was so dehydrated.
She has been checked over, is now on house arrest and in kitty jail upstairs in the cat room. She is on meds and I am force feeding her every three hours. The vet believes I am spot on with my guess that she got locked inside someone's barn or shed and had to eat something nasty to survive.
So even if you think your lost kitty looks okay- get her checked out with the vet when you finally recover her.
I wish this rain would stop so that I could finish our cat enclosure-
I wish this rain would stop so that I could finish our cat enclosure-