Cat Teeth

[BettinaT]

Bettina, in addition to all the focus on the abscess, please clear your mind of worry about what is happening. Focus on happiness, joy, play, cuddle, whatever makes you and Bello the happiest. When concern pops into your mind, put it in a lovely box in your mind, go back to thinking all is healing well. You can open the box once a day to consider what your next steps need to be.

For appetite - be sure to not worry at all about nutrition right now. Feed anything your kitty loves - herring (any preparation), tuna, sardines, chicken cooked or raw, raw milk, broths. If she would eat anything fermented that will help her gut. For now just anything she will enjoy (and her tastes may change every meal).

And I would explore a different veterinarian. She does not seem to be a good match for a cat.

Dr christina

Hi thanks for your message. I try to not have so much focus on it .
About the vet , there is diffrent vet at the same place , so i can try another.

You mention fermented , what can that be ?

He is eating his raw food right now.

 

[BettinaT]

@Dr. Christina @Dr. Jeff
These photos were taken today. I sent them to the vet, who said I should come in tomorrow so they could check on Bello. I asked if we could wait until Monday, but they thought it would be best if I came in tomorrow.

Since the photos were taken, the abscess has opened up more, and more pus and blood have drained out.

My gut feeling tells me that Bello just needs some rest at home now to recover. Bello is still on antibiotics; Saturday is the last day, so he’ll have been on that for 10 days.

I’m applying a warm cloth to the area twice a day and cleaning it with hydrogen peroxide.

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Since the photos were taken, the abscess has opened up more, and more pus and blood have drained out.

Excellent! We want as much of the pus as possible to drain.

 

[BettinaT]

Excellent! We want as much of the pus as possible to drain.

Do you think its necessary to go to the vet tomorrow for a check up? The vet say i should.

 

[GinnyW]

If it's very difficult to go, I wouldn't. Perhaps call and say you just cannot do so, and that it is draining well and you are continuing the compresses - and that you will definitely check in should things become worse - which they will not You're doing fine - says ginny, not a vet. On the other hand, if taking this non-action will jeopardize any future interaction with them, you had better get in there

 

[BettinaT]

@Dr. Jeff @Dr. Christina
And what about the wound that’s appeared? Bello scratches at it every now and then.
Should I—or can I—do anything to keep him from scratching it?

I can see there's a hole in the skin where the abscess is.

 

[Dr. Jeff]

do anything to keep him from scratching it?

Your vet may give him an elizabethan collar.

 

[BettinaT]

@Dr. Jeff @Dr. Christina @Dr. Jean Hofve

I went to the vet again today to have the fur around the abscess on Bello clipped. The vet said she had never seen anything like this after a dental procedure. The abscess has an area on the outside of the skin where the skin is now dead, so it will fall off, the vet said.

The vet looked in Bello’s mouth and said it was still red, and in the area where one of the teeth had been removed—that is, the same spot where the abscess had broken through the skin—inside the mouth, the vet said she wasn’t sure if the bone had protruded slightly from the area where the tooth had been removed.


The vet recommended that I continue giving him antibiotics. By Saturday, I had been giving them for 10 days, but the vet said I should continue, and she would see us again this Tuesday. If she’s still unsure about what she saw inside Bello’s mouth, she’ll sedate him and take X-rays on Tuesday.

 

[BettinaT]

Your vet may give him an elizabethan collar.

The vet did not give me that , and i forgot to ask about it. Do you think its necessary?