ok to make sure it's clear, I did not have Burlington declawed, I hate declawing and am against it. He was declawed when I adopted him.
He's understandably very protective of his feet and doesn't like them touched. When we got him, there was a clicking sound when he walked, but he had some cat litter and poop stuck to his paw and I thought it was that. I tried to get it off and he wouldn't let me (he's very good with his back claws for defending himself), but once he started feeling healthy again and started grooming himself, I figured he would clean it off and he'd be fine.
But now he's started limping, and licking at his foot a lot. I've tried several times to get a look at his foot to see why, but he just has a fit about having it touched, and with so much hair on it (Maine Coons tend to have a lot of hair between their toes), I just can't see anything. At first we thought he'd gotten stung by a bee, because we had an issue with a bee nest and a few bees got in the house, so I figured he'd be fine in a few days after the sting healed.
I hadn't noticed the clicking in a while, but today he walked across the wood floor and he was clicking loudly, and he was limping much worse. He came in the living room and was sitting and holding up his paw. I looked at it again and he finally cooperated just enough for me to examine it a little more closely, and he's got a claw on the second toe from the outside of his foot. I couldn't look at it for very long because he started struggling and fighting with me, but it's obviously sore and the source of his problem, but it doesn't look exactly right, like it's not a normal looking claw, and it's not coming from exactly the right spot, and it also doesn't appear to retract at all.
Has anyone else seen this? He's got a vet appointment to follow up with his treatment for calicivirus on Monday, but I have a new job and I will have to reschedule it either to a bit later in the day so my boyfriend can take him in, or move it to later in the week, so I'll have the vet take a look at it. But I wanted to see if anyone here has any experience with this. He was brought into the shelter as a stray, so I have no idea how long ago the declaw was done, or where it was done. The shelter said he is 4-5 years old, but I suspect he may be somewhat younger than that.
This poor cat, a rundown for those not familiar, I adopted him about 6 weeks ago. They said he had a respiratory infection, but he got very sick a couple days later and ended up hospitalized for 2 days and was diagnosed with calicivirus. He's got a funny looking eye that I am starting to suspect may be glaucoma, which may mean he could end up losing his eye at some point. And we've also discovered that he is likely deaf. He just does not respond to sound at all, and we can shout his name and he doesn't even twitch an ear. And now this thing with the claw. But he's such a sweet boy! This is a pic I took the day I brought him home. His coat looks much better now, I need to get some new pics.
He's understandably very protective of his feet and doesn't like them touched. When we got him, there was a clicking sound when he walked, but he had some cat litter and poop stuck to his paw and I thought it was that. I tried to get it off and he wouldn't let me (he's very good with his back claws for defending himself), but once he started feeling healthy again and started grooming himself, I figured he would clean it off and he'd be fine.
But now he's started limping, and licking at his foot a lot. I've tried several times to get a look at his foot to see why, but he just has a fit about having it touched, and with so much hair on it (Maine Coons tend to have a lot of hair between their toes), I just can't see anything. At first we thought he'd gotten stung by a bee, because we had an issue with a bee nest and a few bees got in the house, so I figured he'd be fine in a few days after the sting healed.
I hadn't noticed the clicking in a while, but today he walked across the wood floor and he was clicking loudly, and he was limping much worse. He came in the living room and was sitting and holding up his paw. I looked at it again and he finally cooperated just enough for me to examine it a little more closely, and he's got a claw on the second toe from the outside of his foot. I couldn't look at it for very long because he started struggling and fighting with me, but it's obviously sore and the source of his problem, but it doesn't look exactly right, like it's not a normal looking claw, and it's not coming from exactly the right spot, and it also doesn't appear to retract at all.
Has anyone else seen this? He's got a vet appointment to follow up with his treatment for calicivirus on Monday, but I have a new job and I will have to reschedule it either to a bit later in the day so my boyfriend can take him in, or move it to later in the week, so I'll have the vet take a look at it. But I wanted to see if anyone here has any experience with this. He was brought into the shelter as a stray, so I have no idea how long ago the declaw was done, or where it was done. The shelter said he is 4-5 years old, but I suspect he may be somewhat younger than that.
This poor cat, a rundown for those not familiar, I adopted him about 6 weeks ago. They said he had a respiratory infection, but he got very sick a couple days later and ended up hospitalized for 2 days and was diagnosed with calicivirus. He's got a funny looking eye that I am starting to suspect may be glaucoma, which may mean he could end up losing his eye at some point. And we've also discovered that he is likely deaf. He just does not respond to sound at all, and we can shout his name and he doesn't even twitch an ear. And now this thing with the claw. But he's such a sweet boy! This is a pic I took the day I brought him home. His coat looks much better now, I need to get some new pics.