I knew my meowmy instincts were right...I just didn't know the right place to look. 
Tonight, I was out in the garage giving momma and percy their nighttime canned food and I went to pet her and felt something hard. I parted her 3 inch (truly...sooo long) fur and dug to the skin and found an abscess that is about the size of a 50 cent piece! It was oozing a bloody looking pus that had gotten crusted in her fur (making it hard) and there are two or three tiny HOLES in her skin!!! I tried to clip away the fur and couldn't do it...I was just so afraid I would hurt her.
I called the ER vet immediately and they told me that it could wait until in the morning because she had a shot of Convenia on Friday for the suspected UTI. On Friday, this horrible abscess was nothing more than a healed over SCRATCH! She would cry when I touched her there...I guess it was swollen even then, but I couldn't tell because her fur is so long.
She is still eating and she was out hunting today and came in tonight just like she always does. I am just scared for her. I have read that she will likely have to be put under to clean and disinfect the wound. I feel bad I didn't catch it sooner or do something! I feel bad that she is outside where she can get hurt like that! But she is the kind of cat that truly does not want to be inside. I have tried! She is partially feral and I don't think she has ever lived inside a house before. She climbed the walls wanting back outside and she hates all of my other animals and viciously attacks them. She can't be an inside cat...I just feel bad that she had obviously fought with some other animal. And then I start thinking about rabies (big can of worms there) - she is UTD on all of her shots, but it still freaks me out to think she has been fighting with another animal.
We are going to the vet at 7:30AM tomorrow.
Tonight, I was out in the garage giving momma and percy their nighttime canned food and I went to pet her and felt something hard. I parted her 3 inch (truly...sooo long) fur and dug to the skin and found an abscess that is about the size of a 50 cent piece!
It was oozing a bloody looking pus that had gotten crusted in her fur (making it hard) and there are two or three tiny HOLES in her skin!!! I tried to clip away the fur and couldn't do it...I was just so afraid I would hurt her.I called the ER vet immediately and they told me that it could wait until in the morning because she had a shot of Convenia on Friday for the suspected UTI. On Friday, this horrible abscess was nothing more than a healed over SCRATCH! She would cry when I touched her there...I guess it was swollen even then, but I couldn't tell because her fur is so long.
She is still eating and she was out hunting today and came in tonight just like she always does. I am just scared for her. I have read that she will likely have to be put under to clean and disinfect the wound.
I feel bad I didn't catch it sooner or do something! I feel bad that she is outside where she can get hurt like that! But she is the kind of cat that truly does not want to be inside. I have tried! She is partially feral and I don't think she has ever lived inside a house before. She climbed the walls wanting back outside and she hates all of my other animals and viciously attacks them. She can't be an inside cat...I just feel bad that she had obviously fought with some other animal. And then I start thinking about rabies (big can of worms there) - she is UTD on all of her shots, but it still freaks me out to think she has been fighting with another animal. We are going to the vet at 7:30AM tomorrow.
for momma 
