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Poor Kitty - Droopy tail
Afty
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So last night I was sitting and reading and my cat came up and laid down next to me. So with my free hand I started scratching her belly, which, she will sometimes allow and sometimes not. This time she allowed it for a minute or so and then freaked the fuck out, bit me pretty hard and ran away to the other side of our dining table.
Now I looked at my hand first so didn't see what happened but when I looked up at the cat she was trying to sit down, but was having a pretty hard time of it, she eventually found a comfortable position, but I noticed that when she was walking her tail which usually is upright with the end curled over towards her head, was drooping down behind her. The tail sticks up about an inch or so before it droops down. She doesn't seem in any pain and is now sitting / eating / playing / cleaning and sleeping as normal.
What I think happened is she banged her tail on the bar between the legs across one of the dining table chairs, she wasn't exhibiting this tail behaviour before she shredded my hand and ran away from me so I am fairly confident it's not anything to do with an infection or her lady parts (as googling suggests it might be).
She will allow petting but if I try to check out her tail/butt area she meows. This is fairly standard behaviour as she only really likes having her head and neck scratched, so I can't tell if this is from pain or just the dislike of being stroked.
Q1. Is this something to be worried about?
Q2. Should I take her to the Vet asap or give it a few days to see if she recovers.
Thanks
Now I looked at my hand first so didn't see what happened but when I looked up at the cat she was trying to sit down, but was having a pretty hard time of it, she eventually found a comfortable position, but I noticed that when she was walking her tail which usually is upright with the end curled over towards her head, was drooping down behind her. The tail sticks up about an inch or so before it droops down. She doesn't seem in any pain and is now sitting / eating / playing / cleaning and sleeping as normal.
What I think happened is she banged her tail on the bar between the legs across one of the dining table chairs, she wasn't exhibiting this tail behaviour before she shredded my hand and ran away from me so I am fairly confident it's not anything to do with an infection or her lady parts (as googling suggests it might be).
She will allow petting but if I try to check out her tail/butt area she meows. This is fairly standard behaviour as she only really likes having her head and neck scratched, so I can't tell if this is from pain or just the dislike of being stroked.
Q1. Is this something to be worried about?
Q2. Should I take her to the Vet asap or give it a few days to see if she recovers.
Thanks
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I don't want to worry you unnecessarily but from my perspective (I work a vet hospital) we see a lot of stuff that should have been brought in much earlier than it was, and could have been easily corrected or treated when the problem first arose.
I would say if you have the funds to do so set up an appointment with your family vet (or at the very least give them a call and explain what is going on in as great of detail as possible) to get their feedback.
The biting thing especially seems like a pain response to me, but some cats are more prone to biting then other (One of my cats tend to bite a lot, not hard mind you) so you'll tend to be the best judge of whether or not this is a normal response for your cat.
I would at least call your vet and get their input, it's hard to give much info over the phone but they will typically be able to at least recommend whether or not you should bring the cat in based on the description you give. (Although at our hospital we take a "If you are concerned enough to call, you should bring it in" approach, but we're a 24 hour vet emergency hospital so if we are getting the calls it's usually an emergency situation)
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Tail down = fuck off
Tail up = attention whore
Tail middle = meh
Its fairly universal for all cats, though with the more domesticated house cats (ones that you've had for awhile) a tail down doesn't always mean anything.
I had a kitty with that issue, she'd end up tweaking her tail from time to time and being sore for a few days.
Likely going to fix itself I'd think.
He thinks that she's been bitten or scratched by another cat and that it is becoming infected. She now has a course of pain killers and antibiotics. (£50! but what are you going to do right?)
He said for it to be a blunt force trauma would require a much stronger hit than her running into a table/chair so it's unlikely to be that.
Thanks for all the replies, hopefully she'll be back to her normal self soon.
I'm betting the vet supplied those?
How would you go about filling a perscription (cheaper then the vet)? Online? Seems like even if i could get a perscription, it would take days to get in the mail all that time my pet would be getting sicker unless it was some kind of consistant medication need.
Cats are better off outdoors. Objectively. They live happier, more stimulated lives.
Yeah, similar here. It was my mom's cat she and my father got before having kids so it died while I was growing up. Their next cat lived to be 20. My mom adopted a stray that wandered into the yard one day as well. It was an outdoor cat that she locked in the garage at night (to protect him from coyotes). He lived to be 15 or so (vet was never certain of his actual age). He was BIG (18 lbs) due to all the animals he ate, and was never sick (until the cancer killed him).