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I was sitting on the floor of my room, organizing the bottom of my closet, and finished what I was doing. I turned to go into the hall, and saw drops of blood all over the gray rug!!!
I freaked out - started yelling at my roomie to check all the cats. I went into the living room to find about a dozen big droplets of blood on a cardboard box on the floor, with a trail leading to them from the hall.
I'm still freaking out, run into the bathroom to grab a rag soaked in cold water - while the roomie is checking the cats, I'm dabbing at the blood, and there was a LOT of it!
Come to find out, it's Max! He either cut his paw or cut his cheek, because there was whole a bunch of blood on both, but after cleaning him off with the wet rag, I wasn't able to find an injury anywhere, partly because I couldn't keep him still.
I think it was his paw, but his claws and pawpads all looked ok. My roomie thinks that he scratched his own cheek somehow, because he thinks it came from his cheek.
I have no idea - all I know is that whatever it was, it stopped as soon as I picked him up and cleaned him off. I was all set to drive to the emergency vet, but I decided to wait and see, since he had stopped bleeding by then.
I put Nature's Miracle on the spots on the rug after I cleaned them up as best as I could, and Max is doing just fine, running around like nothing ever happened.
Oh - and Max learned how to open the cabinet where the dry cat food is kept today. He's had a busy day.
I freaked out - started yelling at my roomie to check all the cats. I went into the living room to find about a dozen big droplets of blood on a cardboard box on the floor, with a trail leading to them from the hall.
I'm still freaking out, run into the bathroom to grab a rag soaked in cold water - while the roomie is checking the cats, I'm dabbing at the blood, and there was a LOT of it!
Come to find out, it's Max! He either cut his paw or cut his cheek, because there was whole a bunch of blood on both, but after cleaning him off with the wet rag, I wasn't able to find an injury anywhere, partly because I couldn't keep him still.
I think it was his paw, but his claws and pawpads all looked ok. My roomie thinks that he scratched his own cheek somehow, because he thinks it came from his cheek.
I have no idea - all I know is that whatever it was, it stopped as soon as I picked him up and cleaned him off. I was all set to drive to the emergency vet, but I decided to wait and see, since he had stopped bleeding by then.
I put Nature's Miracle on the spots on the rug after I cleaned them up as best as I could, and Max is doing just fine, running around like nothing ever happened.
Oh - and Max learned how to open the cabinet where the dry cat food is kept today. He's had a busy day.