Larissa
10-18-2005, 06:13 AM
My roommate is away on vacation so I'm cat sitting. Last night I heard this crying for about 2-3 minutes, as though a neighborhood kid had fallen down and was crying. No biggie. After a few minutes it started involving hissing and other cat-noises so I started looking for roomie's cat and calling after him outside...so did the neighbors, it was that loud!!
When I found him he was fighting with a blackish cat. The back patio is covered with little tuffs of white cat (roomie's cat is white) and a little wet spot (almost as though one of them got scared and peed). There was no black cat fur and the black cat ran off. White cat had blood on his chest area. I carried him up to the front porch, brushed him to get out all the lose fur, and attempted to clean up the blood to see if it was a wound of his or not. I never could determine if it was my cat's blood/wound or not.
He limped a bit last night, but is not limping at all today. He's active this morning, but doesn't want outside as usual. Normally, this cat cries. Loudly. It drives me mad. Every morning between 3-6am he cries. He also does it randomly during other times of the day. He hasn't cried at all. He's a very talkitive cat and I hadn't heard a peep out of him.
Should I be concerned? That's the only thing I can notice different with him. No blood, no limp, just not talking. I don't want to take him to the vet unnessarily, but I'm leaving for work soon (in 30 minutes) and don't want to leave him for 9-10hours alone if he's hurt.
When I found him he was fighting with a blackish cat. The back patio is covered with little tuffs of white cat (roomie's cat is white) and a little wet spot (almost as though one of them got scared and peed). There was no black cat fur and the black cat ran off. White cat had blood on his chest area. I carried him up to the front porch, brushed him to get out all the lose fur, and attempted to clean up the blood to see if it was a wound of his or not. I never could determine if it was my cat's blood/wound or not.
He limped a bit last night, but is not limping at all today. He's active this morning, but doesn't want outside as usual. Normally, this cat cries. Loudly. It drives me mad. Every morning between 3-6am he cries. He also does it randomly during other times of the day. He hasn't cried at all. He's a very talkitive cat and I hadn't heard a peep out of him.
Should I be concerned? That's the only thing I can notice different with him. No blood, no limp, just not talking. I don't want to take him to the vet unnessarily, but I'm leaving for work soon (in 30 minutes) and don't want to leave him for 9-10hours alone if he's hurt.