Amazeing Cat Story

[GuppyDude]

Alright, a while back i went on vacation for a week leaveing all of our animals in the care of one of my mom's friends, they were all at our house and he just came every other day to feed them and make sure everything was ok. well when we got back one of our 4 cats (Gypse) was missing. my mum's friend had not seen her since we left so we waited, a week went by since we had come back and still no kittie. we took her for dead, we live out in the countrey, so it wasn't like some wild animal couldn't just picked her off. and, 3 weeks now go by and who is to show up, GYPSE! hopping along on 3 legs.... it seems that she had gotten her left front leg up into her collar and stuck. it had been that way for a while too, the collar had worn deep into her skin and looked awful, we quickly cut teh collar from her and rushed her to the nearest vet. she spent the night and she was extreamly happy to be back. the wound (thogh it looked life threatening) wasn't that bad (says the vet), its accually healing very nicely. i have no idea where she had vanished too for 3 weeks or how she could go so long without food or water, she is definately an amazeing cat. the collar was on pretty tight so that wouldn't happen, i cant imagine how she got her leg in there.

Heres a pic

Shes like a kitten who stopped growing, she's really small but she has to be atleast 2 years old now.

 

[SarahBravo]

Oh poor baby, I'm so glad she got back okay! She's beautiful - give her a hug from me.

 

[Angel Lady]

Oh poor baby I am glad she got home ok..Give her another hug for me..

 

[Angry_Platy]

What a beautiful cat. Nomination for POTM from me

 

[GuppyDude]

lol ty, shes doing really good, should be healed back together in no time. she has a new attitude on life now too, she used to be stuck up and ignore people, but now she is really friendly

 

[Dweenus]

i second the nom! I'm glad she's back!

 

[black angel]

She's one lucky cat. Just as well they have 9 lives

 

[wuvmybetta]

awwww, what on Earth could she have been up to for 3 weeks, and being 3 legged and all that Poor kid.

That is an amazing story though, GD. I'm glad she found her way home

 

[SRC]

Animals can actually go quite a while withouth food or water. They are designed that way so that if something happens to them..that they can conserve and survive (although they each have a limit mind you).

(not sure on how long a cat can go, but) I know dogs can go approx 2 weeks without eating..and about a week withouth any water at all..although being outside they can lick dew off plants to get some moisture...which will help sustain them longer.

It's a good thing your cat made it home...I know some that probably haven't. My grandmothers cat got stuck out in the woods for a while like that..when he got skinny enough the collar slipped off and he came home (he came home collarless but we coudl see where he had been caught..his neck was hairless, cut up, and bleeding from him trying to get loose).


You should invest in break away collar..or use none at all. Outside cats really don't need to have on collars...they creep into places that are barely big enough for their bodies..much less something snagging them as they are trying to escape up into a tree or brush.


I'm glad your cat made it home ...hurray!

 

[oneponygirl]

I'm glad your kitty returned. My cat, Benny, comes back like that a lot - one leg stuck up in his collar, I want him to have ID even if it's just our number written in Sharpie on the collar. I use breakaway collars and he loses them constantly. I won't let him go out without one though, just in case someone finds him and wants to return him. I thought we'd lost him the other night as he's never out after dark. I think he was stuck under our deck as he suddenly reappeared (after lots of prayers!) and without his collar.

 

[black angel]

Isnt micro chipping a better alternative to collars? I havent had a cat for a few years so i havent heard of breakaway collars.
All my cats had collars and luckily never had any problems, sometimes its the only thing left after an accident.

I had a beautiful grey and white cat who was tragically killed on a very busy road quite a distance from our house. I spent a few days trying to find her but never did. I put up lost posters around the village and waited. A week later i had someone at my door saying that they had seen a dead cat lying next to the busy road that matched the description. I went to where she had said and found nothing, i even went into the joining field in case someone had put her there out the way, nothing. Then as i started my way back something sparkly caught my eye, it was her collar.
At least then i knew it was her that had been killed and apparently the council had picked her up and taken her to the tip,but had removed the collar in case the owner came by. She was only 18 months old

 

[GuppyDude]

i can see her surviveing on 3 legs for a week, i just dont know where she could have gone too, she had a collar on....(not teh right way), but no one would ahve picked her up and brought her in thinking she was a stray but today we have solve dthis problem with all our kitties, we have set up an extensive underground electic fence system that beeps the cat when they reach their boundrys, and delivers a light shock when they cross it, so far so good, no one has left teh yard yet

 

[oneponygirl]

I agree that microchipping is good for ID but around here I don't think the old farmers are going to think about having a found kitty checked for that. I'm not even sure if our Humane Society has the ability to check. It's very small and very rural.

Breakaway collars have some sort of elastic band or special clasp that opens when pressure is put on it so if the cat gets caught on something and gives a good tug the collar just falls off. A pain to have to replace collars but better than losing a cat.

An invisible fence is an excellent idea! I wish we had the money to do that. It's expensive.

 

[SRC]

The underground electric fence is the best thing ever invented IMHO.

Most likely your cat got hung by her collar...probably in some bushes or a tree. After a while she would start to lose weight from not eating...enough to get her foot through, or possibly her foot could have already been stuck from trying to free herself, and her losing weight helped her to wiggle loose. Then she hobbled home..3 legged, hungry, and tired. Probably not travelling during the day so she wasn't seen by any predidtors...probably why it took so long for her to make it back home. (or maybe I just have a really active imagination )


You are very lucky you got your kitty back regardless..she was in quite the precarious position, being 3 legged. If a dog had decided to make a snack of her..there's no way she would have escaped.

Micro-chipping is a good idea..as all my animals are, but you're right...most people don't take a stray to the vet to see if it belongs to someone...if you live in rural areas like that...you can always have the inside of their ear or belly (or any other area that is hairless) tattood with either an indentification number, or your home phone number. They do this to horses and show dogs alot..to prevent people from stealing them.

 

[GuppyDude]

someone else nominate her so i can enter in POTM, got 1 from angry platy