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    Injectable anesthesia causing cardiac arrest in a (seemingly) healthy cat.

    His stitches have been removed today and the wound is healing well. Unfortunately it has been confirmed he has a heart condition. My vet explained it as: heart valve not closing fully, lowering the heart output (slightly oversized heart wall is a compensatory mechanism). He hasn't got any...
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    Injectable anesthesia causing cardiac arrest in a (seemingly) healthy cat.

    He has started eating and drinking normal amounts by now. Here he is in his post-operation cloth he is supposed to wear until the sutures are taken out (with short breaks for washing and drying). His lower stomach looks big because of his fur there. The wound starts about an inch maybe two...
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    Injectable anesthesia causing cardiac arrest in a (seemingly) healthy cat.

    Thank you for the informative and supportive replies. I wasn't aware the old school gas method. Thank you for mentioning it. The vet did have oxygen, and Ramzes got 15 minutes of it. I don't know how it was delivered at the time. Ramzes is much better now. He ate yesterday night, but he had...
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    Injectable anesthesia causing cardiac arrest in a (seemingly) healthy cat.

    I'm starting this thread to let people know (if not already aware) about the dangers of injectable anesthesia in cats. I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any study comparing injectable anesthesia with gas. Although I'm not very hopeful it exists. There seems to be a huge mess in this whole...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    Now that some time has passed (almost 6 months) I think the method I described helps especially if you always have the same strays/neighbour's cats, but it didn't make the problem go away completely. In last 6 months serious fighting happened only once for Ramzes and once for Seth, not long...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    Well a couple of months have passed and I'm pleased to say Seth hasn't had to go to a vet following a fight even once since my last post. Does this mean my behavioral approach works, or are we just lucky? Who knows. Anyway, I decided to update this thread in hope it helps someone else with the...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    Thank you for the reply. I'm trying to change Seth's behavior myself, rather than engaging an external behaviorist. So I'm looking for tips/advice anyone might have on this (methods/ideas). Training him to spend most nights at home is definitely going to cut the number of opportunities for...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    I agree this is horrible stuff from the functional point of view, but also it looks horrible(and requires planning approval here to be that high). Also imagine the cost for just these steel "spreaders". You can't just put something so heavy on top of a normal mesh held by posts. You need a...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    I believe my second or third sentence in this thread was "First let me say my cats are outdoor/indoor and it's not an option for me to change to indoor only, or make an enclosed outdoor area for cats,or cat proof all of my fences". This thread is not about physical separation, but about what...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    I appreciate the advice to improve fences, but I have about 300m of fence including 210m of it already a mesh. Judging how easily cats climb over that mesh I think it will be very difficult to stop them with more mesh unless I have something like this : But that is unlikely to happen.
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    I forgot to say both my cats are fixed. But Seth was quite old when he had his procedure. He was almost a year old. This might be one reason why he is a lot more territorial than Ramzes that got neutered at few months old. I suspect so, but I thought perhaps people have ideas how to lower the...
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    One of my cats regularly fighting strays.

    I'm starting this thread to ask if anyone managed to train their cat not to fight other cats(strays) after he/she started doing so regularly. First let me say my cats are outdoor/indoor and it's not an option for me to change to indoor only, or make an enclosed outdoor area for cats,or cat...
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    Does anyone know what can cause such physical injury to a cat?

    Just a quick update. Seth has calmed down and he's behaving normally now. There is no change with the bold patch on his skin. It looks pretty much the same. He still isn't bothered by it. I will ask the vet what she thinks next time we have to go when that time comes (hopefully not too soon)...
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    Does anyone know what can cause such physical injury to a cat?

    One more thing to add as I don't thing there is an edit button on the forum. It's not easy to keep a cat inside during the summer here. It's 32C (90F) now and very humid, so many windows are open all the time (no aircon in my house yet unfortunately).
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    Does anyone know what can cause such physical injury to a cat?

    Thank you for all the replies. Yes, there are owls and plenty of other birds of prey, I didn't consider them a source of harm for a big 6kg cat, but maybe? We do have owls, ospreys, buzzards, kestrels, even an odd golden eagle here and there. The other ideas for what couldve caused it are...
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    Does anyone know what can cause such physical injury to a cat?

    Yes, I'll do that tomorrow morning when she starts work. In the meantime he has relaxed a bit, but is still very much on edge. It doesn't appear to cause him any pain when touched. It looks like a bold patch of skin. If he walked past you you wouldn't notice unless his skin aligned just right...
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    Does anyone know what can cause such physical injury to a cat?

    Unfortunately my cat Seth had another peculiar thing happen to him and I'm trying to establish what could've caused the weird, injury to the skin on his head to perhaps prevent it happening in future. Let me tell you a little background information first assuming you haven't seen or remember...
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    Cat injuries caused by so called "non invasive" or even "humane" traps.

    Regarding symptoms of poisoning etc. I've researched all the currently available poisons sold here in Poland/EU and they are all supposedly for rats/mice, but some manufacturers put foxes, martens etc on the packaging suggesting other use. The active ingredients are always Brodifacoum...
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    Cat injuries caused by so called "non invasive" or even "humane" traps.

    Yes, in both cases I estimate 12h :-( He did, so I'm sort of inclined to believe if he did use poison it was out of ignorance, not disregard for all other animals. Thank you for sharing your trapping experience. It does put both my and my partner's minds to rest a bit. If I had to move to a...
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    Cat injuries caused by so called "non invasive" or even "humane" traps.

    Very often it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. If I lived in a city or a suburb where they can come across random people all the time I probably would not have cats. I couldn't keep them indoors (work and allergies) and it would be too stressful to wonder what's happening to them if they...
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