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Hello,
My 8 month old cat has a torn claw but the claw isn't torn off completely but the area around the claw looks punctured.
Anyways I've been cleaning his paw in saline and spraying hydrogen peroxide and wrapping with a bit of antibiotic ointment and everything was going good and the smell was almost gone.
Today my dad let Carl outside
into our fenced in backyard because he was crying at the door because he hasn't been outside since I found out about his claw. I usually let Carl out once a day into the backyard for about a hour when I have time to supervise him. He is up on all his shots and doesn't leave the large fenced in backyard.
Well while I was washing his paw before bed and I noticed his claw looked black and hard and I though it was poop or dirt from outside so I picked it off. When I got it off I there was some pink 'stuff' underneath it and realized that I just picked off his scab... that was protecting his paw. Carl wasn't even moving or in pain when I was picking off the scab so was was almost positive it was dirt or poop.
I FEEL SO BAD that I just interrupted his healing process Now it is open AGAIN and exposed and I'm scared that I will get infected!!!!
How bad is it that I removed the scab? How long will it take to re-scab?
My 8 month old cat has a torn claw but the claw isn't torn off completely but the area around the claw looks punctured.
Anyways I've been cleaning his paw in saline and spraying hydrogen peroxide and wrapping with a bit of antibiotic ointment and everything was going good and the smell was almost gone.
Today my dad let Carl outside
Well while I was washing his paw before bed and I noticed his claw looked black and hard and I though it was poop or dirt from outside so I picked it off. When I got it off I there was some pink 'stuff' underneath it and realized that I just picked off his scab... that was protecting his paw. Carl wasn't even moving or in pain when I was picking off the scab so was was almost positive it was dirt or poop.
I FEEL SO BAD that I just interrupted his healing process Now it is open AGAIN and exposed and I'm scared that I will get infected!!!!
How bad is it that I removed the scab? How long will it take to re-scab?
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