Mud Pie and his leg incident

[Laura's Babies]

That is SHOCKING! HOW in the world did he break that bone enough for it to just be there free floating around in his leg!!!!! (I am sure that is something you will never know.) I don't blame you for taking him to another vet, I would want to do everything I could to make sure those sharp bones don't cause him problems in the future, jumping and leaping... that has to HURT! Poor baby, that had to have really hurt and make him sick with infection... Ewwww! Poor baby!

[jazzcat]

Holy smoke Lisa! I've never seen or heard of anything like that. EWWW!

Poor Mud Pie. I hope your vet can shed some light on what might be going on this week. I sure hope it doesn't cause him any more problems.

Now I have the heebee jeebees.

[Catty1]

Aw, no, poor Mud Pie!

If there is some bone missing - might there be a surgical way to put a substitute bone in, or something that would calcify over and give support?

POOR baby! At least there is some healing and he is in less pain - I hope!

HUGS to you and Mud Pie!

Catty1

[Corinna]

Never hard of this either. I would find an orth vet and find some anwsers.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Lisa, I've never seen or heard of this either. Poor Mudpie. I hope that your vet will be able to help him and that he'll heal up quickly and feel better soon. Please take care and continue to keep us updated about him.

[Lizzie]

I'm very glad you are taking Mud Pie to your own vet this week because I don't like the way his toe is drawing up either. They may need to re-open the leg and have a good look inside. Cats have so many small bones in this area of the leg (according to the emergency vet who looked at a limping Ginger, my 20 year old, last week), it makes the issue very complicated. In Ginger's case, they didn't take x-rays because the combination of small bones and arthritis would have made finding the problem impossible, they said. Luckily, her's was just a sprain. I should think your vet will x-ray. Can you even be sure that this piece of bone came from the two bones that were exposed. Could it have worked its way down from another bone? It is a good sized piece and quite thick. I hope you kept it to show your vet. It must be a relief to you to see that the leg is healed and he's no longer in pain. Good luck and I will be looking for your post-vet update.