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Hunter lunged at my face after a routine cat fight (his sister got in a plastic bag, freaked out and both of them chased her furiously). I made some muttered comment, he left a claw in my hand, then sat in front of me. I asked him gently what was wrong and he lunged at my face, then totally attacked my lower leg. I had to go to the hospital to have the claw taken out and finger deeply cleansed, if he had bit I would be on antibiotic IV right now, but instead they let me go home with pills.
Animal Control financed taking him for me. He has been making weird meowing sounds and his bum stinks, he got bored with his toys, I think he either has a brain tumor or some cognitive disorder. I can coax my vet to work out a payment plan (as she said before that I should have called her, we are always flat broke) ... I don't want to just have him put down in case it is something simple like ear mites or the squirrels and birds on the balcony and the noisy yelling people around the building that set him off. I am afraid I missed something. I am crying my eyes out intermittently, this is my first night without him and he always paws my head so gently to get me to wake up and feed him. I love him to pieces and just can't let him go. Please help me because I am utterly torn.
I should have said also, that he scratched a friend and went on weird crazy mode for a few days about a year ago. The vet saw him in the summer and he checked out fine. Also, my son and his friend were holed up in their bedroom and I in the bathroom, bleeding and shaking and crying, for a while and he spent the night isolated in my son's bedroom with my son sleeping on the couch. He did this horrible growling and howling and his brother and sister joined in, they sounded a bit like coyotes, it was freaky and scary and it was very traumatizing to be attacked like that. But I have seen so many other people on forums who took their cat back after vicious bloody attacks and I do not want to just put him down unnecessarily if he could have kitty Prozac or something and live to a ripe old age. He is 5 and a half years old. :/
Animal Control financed taking him for me. He has been making weird meowing sounds and his bum stinks, he got bored with his toys, I think he either has a brain tumor or some cognitive disorder. I can coax my vet to work out a payment plan (as she said before that I should have called her, we are always flat broke) ... I don't want to just have him put down in case it is something simple like ear mites or the squirrels and birds on the balcony and the noisy yelling people around the building that set him off. I am afraid I missed something. I am crying my eyes out intermittently, this is my first night without him and he always paws my head so gently to get me to wake up and feed him. I love him to pieces and just can't let him go. Please help me because I am utterly torn.
I should have said also, that he scratched a friend and went on weird crazy mode for a few days about a year ago. The vet saw him in the summer and he checked out fine. Also, my son and his friend were holed up in their bedroom and I in the bathroom, bleeding and shaking and crying, for a while and he spent the night isolated in my son's bedroom with my son sleeping on the couch. He did this horrible growling and howling and his brother and sister joined in, they sounded a bit like coyotes, it was freaky and scary and it was very traumatizing to be attacked like that. But I have seen so many other people on forums who took their cat back after vicious bloody attacks and I do not want to just put him down unnecessarily if he could have kitty Prozac or something and live to a ripe old age. He is 5 and a half years old. :/
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