poor lampshade cat!

[lph]

Instead of waking us this morning with the usual demanding yowls for BREAKFAST! NOW! Lyra was huddled looking apathetic and uncomfortable on the couch when I came up this morning. Could barely touch her without her shrieking, and she could just limp down from the couch and in for an uninterested breakfast

I was so sure that she'd been hit by a car but the vet was very clear that he could not find any signs of inner damage or bleeding. She had multiple cuts and sores all over her abdomen, though, which gaped and must have been very painful. General anesthetic, antibiotics, painkillers, a lot of shaving and 14 stitches later she's wobbling around at home with a lampshade on her head looking very depressed... We're thrilled that it wasn't life-threatening of course - but how does a large, agile, athletic cat get all cut up like this? Looks like she fell off a roof onto a pile of barbed wire, but she has no cuts on her paws or pads, they're all from the elbow and up, mostly on the chest. Very strange! And this is a pretty squeaky-clean suburban neighbourhood with tidy little gardens. No cuts on the nose, ears or face, as if she'd been in a fight. Somehow this happened between 4 am, when my dh came home and found her happily snoring on the heated floor in the bathroom, and 8.30 am when I found her. Poor puddy-tat.

[colby]

Maybe got stuck going through something, like a hole in a fence? Poor kitty.

[bmccasland]

LPH - hope kitty is feeling better soon. Obviously was not listening to the "Pink Panther" theme (which is currently playing on the Jazz radio station I have on) while out on an early morning prowl. It does sound like your kitty got into something, and unless you speak cat , you'll probably never know.

I came back from braving the shopping mall crowd, to no Herald on the couch..... As I'm not sure if he's gone off somewhere to peacefully go to sleep, forever, I start panicing. Look everywhere, and finally find him, under a dresser that's in a closet - he got in but couldn't quiet get out, the old arthritic joints wouldn't let him bend enough to pull himself out. So now he's back on his heating pad on the couch where he belongs.

[Kerry1976]

Poor little kitty. I hope she heals fully and soon! Cats have a knack for finding trouble even when it is impossible to find.

[PamNY]

Hope she's better soon. Cats are so talented at things of this nature; you'll probably never know what happened, but it will make a great story (after all is well, of course).

[lph]

Today she's her usual rambunctious self Full of stitches and shaved spots, and very annoyed at the lampshade, but hungry, playful and talking again. SO relieved

She is going to drive us up the wall until she's let out again sometime next week.

Aw, poor Herald! You'd think they had enough sense to not squeeze in where they can't get out. Do you have younger cats as well?