I got home last night to find that Scully had a lump on his shoulder about the size of a tennis ball, I called the vets but had just missed the vet and my usual vet is away for 2 weeks anyway.
Chatted to the vet tech and she said with the health problems he has had, it would be best to take him to the emergency vets, so off we went.
Vet asked lots of alarming questions like 'any rat poison down in your place' etc, he *thinks* one of the furbles may have attacked him and its abcessed, but there are no visible bite marks (not that there has to be), so they did some tests and drained it.
Scully then proceeded to poop on the examing table and spray pee at him (it took me a while to reassure the vet that he was neutered!) and hissed a lot which is unusual, he has always been fine with our vet even when getting needles etc.
The emergency vet wouldn't tell me anything, but gave me a sample of floaties in formalin solution to take to the vet of my choice, his white blood count was slightly elevated but he said the absess was 'mostly' fat and puss... well mostly doesn't make me feel better!
Now, my vets can't get me an appointment until late next week so I am trying a new vet (that is cats only) because they have an evening appointment free on Monday.
Oh and the others are so worried about him but I can't let them near him because they keep licking his stitches
so I listened to them meow at each other through a door all night
Edit to add pic:
Chatted to the vet tech and she said with the health problems he has had, it would be best to take him to the emergency vets, so off we went.
Vet asked lots of alarming questions like 'any rat poison down in your place' etc, he *thinks* one of the furbles may have attacked him and its abcessed, but there are no visible bite marks (not that there has to be), so they did some tests and drained it.
Scully then proceeded to poop on the examing table and spray pee at him (it took me a while to reassure the vet that he was neutered!) and hissed a lot which is unusual, he has always been fine with our vet even when getting needles etc.
The emergency vet wouldn't tell me anything, but gave me a sample of floaties in formalin solution to take to the vet of my choice, his white blood count was slightly elevated but he said the absess was 'mostly' fat and puss... well mostly doesn't make me feel better!
Now, my vets can't get me an appointment until late next week so I am trying a new vet (that is cats only) because they have an evening appointment free on Monday.
Oh and the others are so worried about him but I can't let them near him because they keep licking his stitches
Edit to add pic: