My kitty tigger is a hunter. He always enjoys outdoors and usually comes back happy. About a month ago, he came back with a limp - on closer look one of the paw was black and blue. He was sensitive to touch around the leg in general. But the vet said it looks like just the toe after examiniation (no xray was deemed necessary at the time). After some anti-inflamatory, tigger got much better in a week or so and started to rush out of the door again.
But the week later when I came home I noticed his limp was worse (that's about right before thanksgiving), I callled the vet - we thought we would observe tigger with more anti-inflamatory. Tigger doesn't seem to be in as much as pain as the first time and did get better. But the limp and lameness on the back side persists longer than the first time. So long story short, I decided to bring him back to the vet for an x-ray.
X-ray showed a fracture below hind leg join socket. Vet proposed two options:
1) pining the bone with the ball area (that still in the socket). but this option could cause complication given tigger is very very active even with a broken leg.
2) remove the ball section, clean up the fractured end, and let muscule form a "false" joint.
I need some help understanding the pro and con with these options from people's experience. #2) sounds like the preferred option but sounds scary to me - how is that better than just keep tigger alone not doing anything?
But the week later when I came home I noticed his limp was worse (that's about right before thanksgiving), I callled the vet - we thought we would observe tigger with more anti-inflamatory. Tigger doesn't seem to be in as much as pain as the first time and did get better. But the limp and lameness on the back side persists longer than the first time. So long story short, I decided to bring him back to the vet for an x-ray.
X-ray showed a fracture below hind leg join socket. Vet proposed two options:
1) pining the bone with the ball area (that still in the socket). but this option could cause complication given tigger is very very active even with a broken leg.
2) remove the ball section, clean up the fractured end, and let muscule form a "false" joint.
I need some help understanding the pro and con with these options from people's experience. #2) sounds like the preferred option but sounds scary to me - how is that better than just keep tigger alone not doing anything?