AniVerm
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Hi Everyone.
My little Freyr and his brother Frodo were neutered Thursday. Frodo is doing great but Freyr was dragging his left back leg as he came out of his carrier when we got him home.
Originally I thought it was due to anesthesia and surgery pain, they were both a bit silly. When he walk it looks like the leg is "staying behind" and he would do a three legged jump, when he sits the leg would flop outwards with the foot 90 degrees out turned in reference to the right leg.
Friday evening however it seems to be worse and he had a very rough night, could not jump on the bed and growl-meowed at me as I picked him up, the settled in against me but was shivering all the time. I suspect he was in pain.
The surgery wounds and area looks good.
We called the vet first thing, at this point I was convinced that Freyr has a dislocated hip. The vet on duty said the legs are the same length and she wonder if it is a patella or even torn crucial ligament in the knee. They organized that I should bring him back tomorrow (Monday) for examination under anesthesia.
I am still convinced this is hip not knee, yet everything I read explains that there will be shortening and internal rotation. His gait does not look like videos I could find of either cats with dislocated patella or dislocated hips. In humans signs are similar but occasionally we do see somebody who "has not read the book" and does not present with the usual.
It still is also a mystery as to what he did to injure himself.
He came home with Buprinorphine, after the med kicks in he would try to play but has a strange gait, still does not really want to jump and the leg still flops out when he sits and has mostly been lying watching us. Frodo has not even been bothering him, comes up to him and licks him and just snuggle but not initiating the usual cat play.
This poor kitten had an uveites in the past month and was on Tobradex drops too. It seems like everything happens to him. They did bloodwork and ruled out serious problems.
My usual vet is wonderful, he has been great through the whole eye drama and with any other encounter has been explaining everything in detail. He obviously like the kittens, sneaking hugs and even a cheek on the head.
Yet, I am petrified. Freyr is the sweetest little guy, always meeting me with a tail wag and play catching my feet.
Has anybody else seen anything like this?
My little Freyr and his brother Frodo were neutered Thursday. Frodo is doing great but Freyr was dragging his left back leg as he came out of his carrier when we got him home.
Originally I thought it was due to anesthesia and surgery pain, they were both a bit silly. When he walk it looks like the leg is "staying behind" and he would do a three legged jump, when he sits the leg would flop outwards with the foot 90 degrees out turned in reference to the right leg.
Friday evening however it seems to be worse and he had a very rough night, could not jump on the bed and growl-meowed at me as I picked him up, the settled in against me but was shivering all the time. I suspect he was in pain.
The surgery wounds and area looks good.
We called the vet first thing, at this point I was convinced that Freyr has a dislocated hip. The vet on duty said the legs are the same length and she wonder if it is a patella or even torn crucial ligament in the knee. They organized that I should bring him back tomorrow (Monday) for examination under anesthesia.
I am still convinced this is hip not knee, yet everything I read explains that there will be shortening and internal rotation. His gait does not look like videos I could find of either cats with dislocated patella or dislocated hips. In humans signs are similar but occasionally we do see somebody who "has not read the book" and does not present with the usual.
It still is also a mystery as to what he did to injure himself.
He came home with Buprinorphine, after the med kicks in he would try to play but has a strange gait, still does not really want to jump and the leg still flops out when he sits and has mostly been lying watching us. Frodo has not even been bothering him, comes up to him and licks him and just snuggle but not initiating the usual cat play.
This poor kitten had an uveites in the past month and was on Tobradex drops too. It seems like everything happens to him. They did bloodwork and ruled out serious problems.
My usual vet is wonderful, he has been great through the whole eye drama and with any other encounter has been explaining everything in detail. He obviously like the kittens, sneaking hugs and even a cheek on the head.
Yet, I am petrified. Freyr is the sweetest little guy, always meeting me with a tail wag and play catching my feet.
Has anybody else seen anything like this?
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