Kasey, my recue tortie has signs of an old injury and with some of the recent posts on caring for cats with these injuries, it made me wonder if this is what happened to her.
This is just for curiosity at this point, she has been seen by our vet who acknowleges it is an old injury but says there isn't much can be done at this point.
She is a happy, indoor cat know, who is imprinted on me and still likes to play; her story is in "my cats" in the post header.
Her situation;
Walks fine
Can run, perhaps not as fast as our other cats
Cannot jump much more than 12 inches
Limps on her left, rear leg when she get up after lying down a while
When she sits, she sticks her left rear leg straight out
She has been here 1 1/2 years now and this happened sometime before I brought her home.
She used to be a phenominal jumper and would range far outside the fence line in the rural area that surrounds the company facility that I removed her from. This all stopped at one point and she stuck close to the building where she lived, I assume she felt vulnerable.
I know that if someone or something injured her, she would not have had the benefit of being confined in a small cage and cared for, to recover, as per the posts on cats with broken hips or pelvis.
I wonder if this was the source of her injury, or whether it was something else; I guess I will never know.
She is on glucosamine pills now and is doing much better in a safe environment with good food, attention. After a couple months here, on the pills etc., she started stretching her back legs, like most cats do, someting I had not seen her do, before. At least she is settled, happy and appears comfortable now.
This is just for curiosity at this point, she has been seen by our vet who acknowleges it is an old injury but says there isn't much can be done at this point.
She is a happy, indoor cat know, who is imprinted on me and still likes to play; her story is in "my cats" in the post header.
Her situation;
Walks fine
Can run, perhaps not as fast as our other cats
Cannot jump much more than 12 inches
Limps on her left, rear leg when she get up after lying down a while
When she sits, she sticks her left rear leg straight out
She has been here 1 1/2 years now and this happened sometime before I brought her home.
She used to be a phenominal jumper and would range far outside the fence line in the rural area that surrounds the company facility that I removed her from. This all stopped at one point and she stuck close to the building where she lived, I assume she felt vulnerable.
I know that if someone or something injured her, she would not have had the benefit of being confined in a small cage and cared for, to recover, as per the posts on cats with broken hips or pelvis.
I wonder if this was the source of her injury, or whether it was something else; I guess I will never know.
She is on glucosamine pills now and is doing much better in a safe environment with good food, attention. After a couple months here, on the pills etc., she started stretching her back legs, like most cats do, someting I had not seen her do, before. At least she is settled, happy and appears comfortable now.