Hope your cat is ok. She will be glad to be back home.

well she's home now and in her cage we had to take her usual pillow out because she was struggling a bit getting on and off it. But the vet is amazed at how well she is doing and how relaxed she see ms to be being more than happy to have people hold and stroke her and she was able to stand a little. It's going to be a long 3weeks and my main concern is her not eating enough so that's some thing we'll have to keep an eye on. Then it's back to the vets for a check up and then Milley, will be sent to an orthopedic surgeon to fix her hip joint and then more cage rest.

As for my soppy idiot of a cat Murphey, he's been looking around for Milley, these past few days and his behaviour has been that of a pining cat. Yet when we brought her home he showed no interest and if anything was behaving as if we'd brought a new cat back.

Awww so good to hear she's home. Murphy's just playing it cool.

So pleased to hear Milley is home

Love the names Murphy and Milley

Murphy probably doesn't like the vet 'smell'. Whenever I brought my Tabitha home after her cancer treatments my Bernard used to look quite horrified and frantically try to sniff her.
He also couldn't understand why I was spending so much time with her and why she just wasn't 'herself'.

you might be right on that Milley, has had a couple of stays at the vets and each time we brought her home Murphey, has acted odd towards her. He's ok now and they were just sat staring at each other across the sitting room this morning.

How ever my big concern now is how much Milley's surgery is going to cost I'm covered with my insurance up to £4000 and the first part of her treatment hast already cost me £750 so i've still got £3000 to play with so i'm desperatly hoping it's not going to be much more than that . I can afford to put a little of my savings towards the bill but if they tell me it's going to cost some thing like £5000 then I really don't know what I'm going to do.

I'm fairly confident you'll be okay. Operations don't cost as much as you may think, the main costs are the anaesthetic and other drugs used. I think the cost will be well under £3000.

My Tabitha was treated for cancer last year and the costs were escalating alarmingly and I was also worried that I might reach the insurance limit, particularly as she was being considered for chemotherapy (I was well under in the end because Tabitha had to be put to sleep). However, her surgery did not cost as much as I thought - it was the ultrasounds, X rays, drugs and repeated stays in the vet hospital that kept the bill soaring.

When she broke her leg (3 times) she twice had surgery and the costs back then in the late 90s were in the hundreds rather than in the thousands (some of her surgery was quite complicated and I was told that in earlier years she would have had her leg amputated) so, even with inflation and vet cost increases, you should be alright.

I spoke to my vets and because the surgey is being done at another practice he could give me a cost but said it's unlikely to be muche more than a few thousand as it's a relativly straight forward procedure.

I'm just amazed at how well the little girls doing last week she could hardly move but now the tails wagging she's moving around her cage (all be it a little gingerly) she can sit and is able to get into the crouching position to go to the toilet and her appetite seems to of returned.

I'm glad to hear that Milley is okay. I've looked back over the thread and it seems that one of my posts has been removed (some idiot made an insensitive comment and I hit back).

We're taking Bungle to the vet tomorrow. We found what could possibly be a tick. Normally she's such a calm little thing but as soon as anyone goes near it she starts biting and scratching us. The problem is that she has such long fur, we're not sure how long it's been there.

I'll update tomorrow when we get back from the vet. I think (or hope) she'll be okay.

My cat had a tick stuck a couple of years ago, the vet had to take out the tick. The tick's head was still in the skin and I couldnt get it out. When that happens it is wise to go to the vet.

Wishing Milley a speedy recovery.

Glad to read that Milley is making such a good recovery - but feel for her being confined and needing further surgery. Hope it all continues to go well.

Hope you get on ok at the vet. Both Star and I commented too on the horrible post and ours were removed too!!!

poor Milly, has been on cage rest for 5 weeks now and is thoroughly fed up but the good news is she goes in for her surgery tomorrow so she should fingers crossed then should only be in her cage for another couple of weeks..Her recovery up to now has been simply amazing despite still having the dislocated hip she is still able to stand on her hind legs and reach right up and grab the top of the cage .On the couple of occasions we have let her out to have a little walk round the room apart from a slight limp you'ed hardly think any thing was wrong with her .

That is really good news Larry. Big hugs for tomorrow. Will be thinking of you all then. xx

Aww your poor cat's been through so much. Hope your little cat makes a swift recovery after surgery. It sounds like she's already on the mend.

Hi Larry,

Came across this thread quite randomly, didn't even know there was a pet section!

Reading about Milly reminded me of my cat Rory. He's since passed now, but 20 years ago he was in a similar situation, he was hit by a car, cracked some of the vertebrae in his lower back, broken pelvis and the ball on the top of his femur was clean knocked off the top of the bone. He spent about 6 weeks in a cage and the vet decided not to do anything about the femur, as the break was clean the ball would just sit in the pelvis doing nothing and the muscles would grow to compensate.

For a few of those 6 weeks, at the start, the poor fella had no movement in his lower half. But, sure enough, a couple of months after, once he'd healed, albeit still with the broken femur, you wouldn't have known he'd been in any accident. Leaping and charging round the garden just like he always had.

They can be pretty tough when they want to be! Good luck with the surgery, hope it all goes well.

Peter

That was a lovely thing to do for your first post Peter. Welcome to DS and to the animal mad bit! x

Great news OP, heres to a long happy life for Milly.

thnks everyone -Milly was a bit groggy when we got her home and was stumbling around her cage at first but that's only to be expected with the after effects of the anesphetic. I was expecting her to be off her fodd for a day or two so was quite amazed that she very quickly ate all her breakfast plus thankfully the anti biotic that was mixed in with it. The lass thing I wanted was to cause her any more stress by having to try and have to open her mouth and force it down her throat. And of course we've had the usual fun and games wth the lamp shade coller so far she's managed to get it off three times so far but not since this morning so hopefuly she's geting used to it now and will leave it alone,

The easiest way to get ticks off is to unscrew them, usually with one of these little hook jobbies

They are very easy to use and don't leave the head in the animal. But really, even if the head is left behind, keep dabbing the spot with Betadine / Vetadine iodine lotion or even salt water and the worst that will happen is a little spot that will take a few days to heal.

With ticks, never do any of the old wives' tales so-call remedies of putting vaseline on the tick, or nail varnish or nail varnish remover or applying a lit cigarette to the tick or any daft ideas like that. These actions simply tell the tick it is under attack and it will regurgitate some of its body fluids into the animal and that is when diseases get passed from tick to animal - or human.


Larry, I'm so pleased that Milly is doing so well. Cats are remarkably resilient animals providing they survive the initial impact. Unfortunately, in my personal experience, they haven't.

all 3 of my cats have been hit by a car sadly one of them was killed instantly so i'm both lucky and unlucky still amazed that she still has her coller on although she is trying to clean herself without much success I reckon once she has her stitches out on Friday and the coller can finally come off there is going to be a lot of scratiching and licking going on.

RE: Bungle's visit to the vet about a possible lump. (I totally forgot that I had posted this which is why it's taken a couple of weeks to reply).

Thankfully it was just matted fur which was shaved off. We have been attempting to brush her regularly (she hates it!) since.

Glad to see she's on the mend - are you going to keep her indoors now? Cats & cars are not a good combo.