Help! I have had one of the cats from a barn where I board my horse at home for a month trying to get his minor wounds to heal! The issue is every time they look good, just pink skin, scab gone, he licks it and it gets angry and raw again! New scab, start over. His leg wound healed but his right side still has a big bald spot. Once again raw & red from licking.
He has an e-collar and is stuck in my basement bathroom except the three times a day I visit him. I got him a tank top to wear so he can have a break from the cone when I am there. Those work great except if I am not watching close enough and he gets a few licks in between protective gear. Argh!
It started as a small dime-size bald spot and he licked it to larger than a silver dollar! So I brought him home thinking it would be a quick healing process.. He had an antibiotic shot at the vets and they thought it would be fine, said he didn't even need the e-collar. Wrong!.
Do all cats do this or is he unique with his sand-paper tongue on new pink skin? I really want to return him to his barn cat family and am going crazy. I really don't think it will heal if he keeps licking it raw. I guess I have to keep him in jail & coned until the fur grows back??
How long will that take??
PS - he is a great cat but very needy and I already have 2 very unsocial cats upstairs.
He has an e-collar and is stuck in my basement bathroom except the three times a day I visit him. I got him a tank top to wear so he can have a break from the cone when I am there. Those work great except if I am not watching close enough and he gets a few licks in between protective gear. Argh!
It started as a small dime-size bald spot and he licked it to larger than a silver dollar! So I brought him home thinking it would be a quick healing process.. He had an antibiotic shot at the vets and they thought it would be fine, said he didn't even need the e-collar. Wrong!.
Do all cats do this or is he unique with his sand-paper tongue on new pink skin? I really want to return him to his barn cat family and am going crazy. I really don't think it will heal if he keeps licking it raw. I guess I have to keep him in jail & coned until the fur grows back??
How long will that take??
PS - he is a great cat but very needy and I already have 2 very unsocial cats upstairs.