Hi everyone,
We recently adopted a cat (a year ago) from the shelter and he is really great. When we got him he had a lot of issues with infections, etc. but that has been cleared up. We did find out he has FIV though. We also noticed that he always sat weird with his leg sticking out. We took him to a doctor who did an x-ray and he said that it showed some really weird stuff on his left side. He has a torn ACL, his kidney appears displaced which may mean that he got hit by a car prior to us adopting him.
About three weeks ago we noticed a huge patch of hair missing over where his leg is at and there were bit marks on it. We tried some medicine but he was biting it again. Today we took him to the vet and he said that it could be that the leg is bothering him so bad that we may need to get surgery because the cat appears to be biting at it to try to relieve pain.
Has anyone here experienced this with their cat before? I am just nervous because I don't want the cat to think we are giving him up leaving him to get surgery, etc.
We recently adopted a cat (a year ago) from the shelter and he is really great. When we got him he had a lot of issues with infections, etc. but that has been cleared up. We did find out he has FIV though. We also noticed that he always sat weird with his leg sticking out. We took him to a doctor who did an x-ray and he said that it showed some really weird stuff on his left side. He has a torn ACL, his kidney appears displaced which may mean that he got hit by a car prior to us adopting him.
About three weeks ago we noticed a huge patch of hair missing over where his leg is at and there were bit marks on it. We tried some medicine but he was biting it again. Today we took him to the vet and he said that it could be that the leg is bothering him so bad that we may need to get surgery because the cat appears to be biting at it to try to relieve pain.
Has anyone here experienced this with their cat before? I am just nervous because I don't want the cat to think we are giving him up leaving him to get surgery, etc.