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Cat Fight Wounds
The cats that have more probabilities of getting into fights are the entire males (not neutered), that have a social position to support in the hierarchy of the neighborhood. Neutered males fight less, until they have been neutered when they were already adult and they have got used to the fights. The castration does that goes down little by little the level of hormones of the cat's blood , for what a young male who has been neutered recently does not lose immediately the desires to fight. It is not also unusual that the females fighting, specially if they are defending to their kitties; a mother whose litter are menaced not hesitate to face to more fighter male.. The cats that have access to the exterior world are possible fighters or possible victims. The only thing that guarantees that a cat is going to have a pacific life is to have him inside house, but there are many people who believe that this one is an unacceptable restriction. At least, if we vaccinate our cat against the respiratory feline viruses, he will be protected from the infections of the vagabond or no vaccinate cats. Fights with nails and teeth The kind of resultant wound of a fight depends on the part of the body affected.in which it is producing A bite in the hoofs, the legs or the tail are producing celulitis; a painful and hot swelling of the contiguous tissue of the wounds , that sometimes can be to certain distance of the wound. If the bite is in the face, the rump or the base of the tail, an abscess is more frequent: an accumulation of pus under the skin that makes it swell up. Among the entire weapon that the cat disposes, the paw and his nails are those that less damage can cause. Almost all the scratches are relatively superficial and do not cause the cat more than a few slight inconveniences. However, there are times in which a claw can provoke a serious wound if it gives in the eye. A scratch in the eyeball or a prick in the cornea leave permanent scars, which can debilitate his capacity of vision and, in addition, he can lost the eye. If a cat has a wound in an eye, it is necessary to take him immediately to the veterinarian. When a cat gets a bite in a fight, the best thing is to take him to the veterinarian. On the other hand, a light scratch can treat him in house washing him the wound twice daily, with a saline diluted solution and monitoring closely for 2 or 3 days to see if there is swelling or if one infects him. If the wound recovers, won't need antibiotics. The infection could become in an abscess, which the veterinarian will have to cut. Q/A Claudio, my cat 2-year-old Rex, goes always in fights and come with abscesses. How can I treat them? Any abscess that goes out to Claudio has to cut the veterinarian . An abscess contains infected pus isolated of the rest of the body. The isolation protects to the body but also it prevents that the medicines come up to the abscess and eliminate the infection. If the infected tissue do not cutting and making go out the pus, one it is returning to reproduce the abscess. And it is more probable that the toxins in it, make the cat ill if it is not eliminated. My cat Felix, came yesterday to house limping but he did not leave me to see his legs. Now he get fever, but I cannot see any wound that I must do? Try to examine again to Felix, but take care, he is going to biting you. If he do it, probably you will find a stopper of a mess hair that covers a hole of size of a tooth in a hoof or a leg. Though you don't find it , you must take him to the veterinarian; if he has fever, he can have an infection in the "invisible" wound and it will be necessary to put antibiotics. Can I use antiseptic of my personal first aid kit to disinfect the cuts and scratches of my cat? Yes, providing that it dilutes them in water in order that they are not so strong. But if it is a wound of a bite, it must not trust in them: if the case is this, you must take always the cat to the veterinarian in order that he examines him.
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