My husband and I were out of town Friday night. Our professional pet sitter came in on Friday evening and Saturday morning to scoop and feed.
When we came back on Saturday night I immediately put out canned food for the cats. BeBe, who LOVES canned food, took one bite, acted as if he had been shocked with electricity, ran madly from the kitchen and hid cowering under the bed for the rest of the night. Everything was fine the next morning until I tried to feed him again, which led to the same odd behavior.
I just took BeBe to the vet to find out what is going on. The vet found that BeBe's left canine is very loose and very painful and that the right canine is cracked. He said he had never seen anything like this.
I am trying to figure out how this happened. One theory is that BeBe did this to himself. He "makes love" to the bathmat every day. This involves dragging the mat around and then humping it while holding on tightly with his mouth.
Perhaps the bathmat resisted and his teeth were injured in the struggle.
My other theory is that he jumped from the top of our 7 foot high cat tree when the Pet Sitter came in and that he hit his face on landing.
Just in case someone asks -- Our Pet Sitter did not hurt him -- she teaches pet first aid for the Red Cross, does animal rescue, and is the biggest lover of animals I have ever seen. There is simply no way she did this.
So....has anyone ever had their cat's canines pulled? Does anyone have any ideas on how this could have happened? Any advice?
When we came back on Saturday night I immediately put out canned food for the cats. BeBe, who LOVES canned food, took one bite, acted as if he had been shocked with electricity, ran madly from the kitchen and hid cowering under the bed for the rest of the night. Everything was fine the next morning until I tried to feed him again, which led to the same odd behavior.
I just took BeBe to the vet to find out what is going on. The vet found that BeBe's left canine is very loose and very painful and that the right canine is cracked. He said he had never seen anything like this.
I am trying to figure out how this happened. One theory is that BeBe did this to himself. He "makes love" to the bathmat every day. This involves dragging the mat around and then humping it while holding on tightly with his mouth.
My other theory is that he jumped from the top of our 7 foot high cat tree when the Pet Sitter came in and that he hit his face on landing.
Just in case someone asks -- Our Pet Sitter did not hurt him -- she teaches pet first aid for the Red Cross, does animal rescue, and is the biggest lover of animals I have ever seen. There is simply no way she did this.
So....has anyone ever had their cat's canines pulled? Does anyone have any ideas on how this could have happened? Any advice?