Testing image hosting service.. (our male cat in a onesie)

[denbot]

A few weeks ago, my wife noticed our male cat "Dingo", was off his feed, and more reclusive then normal. Just before I got home, she found a wound on his chest that was weeping. I got home the next day and the wound had turned into a hole, so because Dingo is 17lbs of feline muscled, four wheel drive cuisinart, a WWF style throw down ensued getting him stuffed into a pet carrier and off to the vets.

This sad kitty is what we brought back the next day.



Dingo was miserable in his cone of hell. The first three days after coming home he stayed in, or under our bed. At night, if we moved, he would run around the bed colliding with us, and any thing else, scraping us, and catching the edge of his cone on everything else.

The vet said he had to wear it, and remain indoors for 2 weeks before the stitches would be taken out. Surprisingly it took almost five days before he tore it off, which shocked us, because we could not get him to wear a collar for more then 60 seconds in the nearly 10 years of his life.

We could not get him to wear the cone again, so we ordered a kitty surgical suit on line, and decided to have the boy (technically Dingo is his cat) wrestle him into a modified onesie during the delivery wait.

Shockingly, both survived the ordeal.



I will never figure out cats, because Dingo never fussed with the onesie, even though he wore it for two weeks (the cat surgical suit was too small). Around the one week mark, he decided that he was done with being kept in doors, and kept blowing out window screens, before we surrendered and opened back up the kitty door. We are wondering what the neighbors thought about our furry little goofball hanging out in the front yard in his MFM styled onesie, the quote printed on it said "Pants optional".

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[FM123]

1. Dingo is adorable in his onesie!

[bench scientist]

2. Awe get better Dingo!

[forgotmylogin]

3. Wow, 17 pounds, he must be a bruiser.

I know even lighter cats are nothing to tangle with when they have decided they will not do something you need them to do.

I understand the "Cuisinart" comparison completely! I'm so glad mine is declawed.

I'm glad your vets had the right sized cone. When my 11 pounder had an abscess drained, they put on a cone that would be appropriate for a medium-sized dog. He was seriously an unhappy gramophone that only played sad records. It was two hours of hilarity until we realized the cone would not even permit him to reach a food dish with his mouth and I finally trimmed five inches off of it.

[denbot]

4. "Declawed".. Dear god..

Incoming!!!

[forgotmylogin]

5. He was declawed when I got him.

I didn't do it. The cat I just took in on July 4 has her claws and is causing great terror every time she climbs the back of the couch.

I wish I could blunt her claws. I've seen a battery powered "buffer" thing that supposed to be painless and harmless, but I find it patently amusing to consider the idea of holding a cat with sharp claws and trying to insert their fingers one by one into a whirring grinder-type device.

[denbot]

6. LoL

Our daughter is a pet groomer, and occasionally trims kitty claws. For this she has a handy-dandy little trimmer made for cats. She mentioned there was a powered version, but not only was it expensive (her equipment is already quite costly), she said that it freaks out already freaked out cats.

[mythology]

13. They make covers for cat claws

My previous cat had some issues with scratching and we used those. Granted she didn't have a fight or flight reflex (it was all flight, all the time), so as long as you had a hold of her, she wasn't going to fight back.

[Fla Dem]

7. Quite the story. He's a beautiful cat. Mine is just as onery.

I have a standing agreement with the vet that if I can catch her and get her into a carrier I can bring her in for check-ups and pedicures. I had to cancel so many appts because she just would not let me catch her, that we came to that agreement. But she really is a sweet cat. We do have "Mommy and Me " time once a day, usually in the morning. That's when she will allow me to have her in my lap for petting and rubbing her nose. It lasts about 5 minutes, then it's like all of a sudden she realizes where she is and is off my lap like a shot. I have to laugh because all the while she's there she is purring like a small well tuned engine. Otherwise, it hands off. Does not like touching by hand, but begs to be brushed. She wants to be in the same room as me, sleeps on the bed at night and howls if she can't find me in the house. So a devoted buddy regardless of her orneriness.

I hope Dingo is ok and back to his usual self. You never said what happened to him. Was it an injury or some type of growth?

[denbot]

9. Dingo had an abscess that apparently burst.

Dingo's doing fine now. He is particularly willful, even for a cat, but is an affectionate little beast.
He follows my wife around loudly demanding what ever mysterious want that strikes his fancy at any given moment. My wife haunts a local pet boutique, scouring the shelves for anything that is new, as he will tire of say, duck/venison cat food after one or two bites.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. if he goes out, he probably was bitten by another cat

One of our past vets told me that cat bites are very nasty because the drain hole closes up too quickly to allow the wound to drain . Nasty stuff. May Dingo heal rapidly.

He is gorgeous. Love your description of his claws!

[Number9Dream]

8. Hope Dingo recovers quickly (cats usually do)

Also hope he stays out of fights. We've had 7 Siamese over the years. Presently have a 4 y/o Blue Point male, and a 3 y/o Seal Point female. They're leash trained (to keep them out of fights). Meezers are terrific. Best of luck for Dingo and you.

[Skittles]

10. what caused that wound?

ah OK I read up, yes indeed

[denbot]

16. Hi Skittles!

Our vet said he probably was in a fight, and the infection resulted from a puncture wound from a claw or bite

The infection was pretty serious, as it not only caused him to eat less, but he seemed To "hole up".
The vet said that an injured animal will hide, knowing that he is vulnerable due to the injury.

[Skittles]

19. when my cat got bit in the face

my vet surmised, "he was probably winning the fight, or else he would have been bitten in the ass"

[denbot]

20. LoL!

Apparently Sun Tzu reincarnated, and became your vet.

[Skittles]

21. your cat is gorgeous

problem is, he thinks he is all that: I WILL TEACH HIM THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS. When he is healed, of course

[IcyPeas]

11. maybe the onsie felt good....

like the way these Thundershirts work. It could've had a soothing affect on Dingo maybe.....

http://www.thundershirt.com/thundershirt/thundershirt-cats.html

Dingo is beautiful.

[applegrove]

12. Poor Dingo. Mine Twilight looked so embarrassed in her headcone.

I'd take it off for her to eat and then had to put it back on to the saddest eyes.

[denbot]

14. Once he felt good enough to tear it off, there was no going back.

Instead of sad eyes, he looked at us and projected; go ahead, waste your time.

As soon as we put it back on, he would hook the claws on both his back legs on the inner rim of the cone and flip it off in one quick move, no matter how snug we tied it.

Kitty for the win!

[applegrove]

15. The vet gave Twilight a cone that had a cloth tie on it so I could do

a bow with that and there was no getting it off. Poor thing.

[denbot]

17. Yeah, we had the same thing.

Like I said up thread, he is a particularly willful kitty. We re-tied it as tight as we dared. As soon as we were done, he flopped on his side, placed his rear claws on the inner rim and simply flipped it over his head.

His whole process took no more then 2-3 seconds!

[applegrove]

18. Nifty kitty.