My cat is trying to kill me.

[SiotehCat]

Tuesday afternoon, I come home from work and my cat Oscar is limping. Hes not using his back left foot at all. He is also not good at using one back leg, so hes falling all over the place. I dont have a car so I have to wait until my partner comes home from work. At 12:00 we decide he needs to be taken to the emergency clinic. At 3:10 we are driving home. At 3:30, I am in my bed ready to sleep. At 6:00 I wake up to get ready for work. This cat is going to be the end of me. I have four cats and Oscar is the only one that is ALWAYS hurting himself. Hes the toughest and most aggressive. None of my cats are allowed outside, but he still manages to hurt himself. What the heck? My partner is bonded terribly to Oscar, so Oscar gets rushed to the vet for everything. Oscar looked sad? Take him to the vet. Oscar goes to the vet so often, im surprised they havent called Cat Protective Services on us. I thought cats were supposed to be graceful. And to top it off, the vet has the nerve to tell me that Oscars foot did not need emergency care and that he could have waited for the normal vet. This is NOT something you should tell someone at 3 in the morning after waiting several hours. Just had to let this out. My family doesnt understand. Hes just a cat.

Sio

[Raggs]

Oh poor kitty. Most cats are graceful. But if they have a nerve problem or Feline Leukemia or Feline AIDS, they all can contribute to major health issues and balance issues. Even if cats have a vertebrae out of whack, that can mean major balance issues.

[sheilabgroomer]

Oh poor kitty. Most cats are graceful. But if they have a nerve problem or Feline Leukemia or Feline AIDS, they all can contribute to major health issues and balance issues. Even if cats have a vertebrae out of whack, that can mean major balance issues.

Poor kitty, my big ole butt!!! lol Sounds like this kitty has Munchenhausen (sp) Syndrome and has his mommies playing right into his hands...hehehe

I do agree w/Raggs that his clutzyness could be from an underlining problem. Ask your regular vet (not the Em one) what he thinks. I have a Red Lored Amazon who is very clumsy. I never thought anything about it until I started visiting a Bird lovers message board. I found out that it is not normal and could be caused by many things, poor nutrition at the top. I changed his diet because he was eating the equivalent of McDonald's everyday and I can't believe the change in just a few short months! He is like a little acrobat now and doing things he never could before (even w/an amputated toe!!)

[Raggs]

Poor kitty, my big ole butt!!! lol Sounds like this kitty has Munchenhausen (sp) Syndrome and has his mommies playing right into his hands...hehehe

Oh I love it.... he he he.... or one of the other kitties has Münchhausen by proxy.... LOL

[Maggy]

We had a cat who had a seizure problem and I think it caused brain damage because the older he got the less coordinated he was, and the poor guy only lived to be 6 or 7.

[SiotehCat]

I wonder

Hes not uncoordinated, hes just... clumsy. And it doesnt help that his father is paranoid. There were a couple of incidents where we really had no idea what happened. One was that he wasnt opening his eye, and it turned out he had a scratch. We came home once and his foot had a big giant gash in it.There was blood everywhere. Hes our biggest and our meanest, maybe the other cats gang up on him when I leave. He really does go to the vet for just about anything though.

Sio