Cat Emergencies

Basic elements of first aids: Guide for simple principles when you face a feline emergency:

• Do not suffer panic. Be calm. The life of your cat can depend of your common sense.
• Value the situation.

What happened?

Are you in danger?

Do not risk for foolish things

• Is the cat in any other risk? Move him carefully if it carries any risk for the animal.
• Value the condition of the cat. Is he conscious or unconscious? Do not loose time doing a meticulous recognition or diagnosis until having treated the most immediate problems.
• Provide the first aid of urgency. Give him artificial breathing and cardiac massage if needed.
• Get help if necessary and possible. Providing that it is possible, a person must organize the equipment and the movement, while another one takes care of the cat.
• Take the cat to the veterinarian
• Monitor the possible appearance of symptoms of shock. Independently of the specific reason that has motivated it, the shock is the most deadly emergency which you can face.

Monitor a Possible Shock

• Pale or whitish gums
• Agitated breathing
• Weak or intense pulse
• Coldness of the extremities, and
• General weakness.

How to Use This Part of the Site: In this part of the book the emergencies are arranged in alphabetic order. If your cat is sick or injured, decide which is the most important clinical symptom- burns, ocular injuries, poisoning, irritations, etc.- and then look for it under the appropriate heading. Also you can use the topic index that is at the end of the book to look for the section you need.

In this part of the site we detail the majority of the most common emergencies that can happen. In each one there is a description of the symptoms of the injury or disease, and instructions accompanied by illustrations that show what is necessary to do.

It is possible it turns out to be difficult to decide if the cat needs veterinary attention and, if so, when he needs it. For every concrete case you will find a table that follows a deductive method to help him decide what to do once the first aids is applied.