A few days ago (I think) my cat broke his tail.
He lives in our house with his brother and they're very playful and can get quite rough sometimes, so I assume that's how he injured it.
Anyway, we felt a slight hard bump in his tail (only really small) just on the top, and we figured it was just from fighting so we let it be.
Yesterday he got in a fight with a neighbour's cat and then ran inside our extremely shaken up, running into the garage and sleeping on the floor for the rest of the night (which is very uncharacteristic of him).
Now today he's entered with blood on his tail on the area where the break is. We wiped it off with a cloth but he got really mad and started hissing and meowing really loudly so we put him down and after licking the leftover blood he's asleep on my bed.
Is this normal for cats? Should we not let him outside until his tail has healed up a bit or should we take him straight to a vet? We're kinda tight on money at the moment and if there's something we can do at home without going to a vet to stop infection/further injury I'd really like to know about it.
Thanks in advance!
He lives in our house with his brother and they're very playful and can get quite rough sometimes, so I assume that's how he injured it.
Anyway, we felt a slight hard bump in his tail (only really small) just on the top, and we figured it was just from fighting so we let it be.
Yesterday he got in a fight with a neighbour's cat and then ran inside our extremely shaken up, running into the garage and sleeping on the floor for the rest of the night (which is very uncharacteristic of him).
Now today he's entered with blood on his tail on the area where the break is. We wiped it off with a cloth but he got really mad and started hissing and meowing really loudly so we put him down and after licking the leftover blood he's asleep on my bed.
Is this normal for cats? Should we not let him outside until his tail has healed up a bit or should we take him straight to a vet? We're kinda tight on money at the moment and if there's something we can do at home without going to a vet to stop infection/further injury I'd really like to know about it.
Thanks in advance!