You might remember how Cleo escaped from outside Healing Rooms a few days ago and gave me a near heart-attack. We found her after 3 hours, about 15 metres away from my car.
Flashback:
http://animalcare.my/2009/10/cleo-ran-away-i-need-help-please.html
http://animalcare.my/2009/10/we-found-cleo.html
http://animalcare.my/2009/10/and-through-it-all.html
Bringing the vet to the house to examine Cleo’s skin problem had also been a failure because she was too fierce and the vet could hardly look for 3 seconds before she bolted upstairs. Finally, the vet resorted to a steroid jab.
So, since I was at the hospital today, I took the liberty of letting the vet over there see her photos instead:
See the pink spot?
A close-up
From my description and the photos, the best the vet could diagnose is that it is probably fungal in nature and she gave me a cream for it.
There is also a balding patch on the other side of the body. The vet said it’s either also fungal, or could be a psychological problem of over-grooming due to stresss (they have stress, too?).
Now, I came back and my daughter and I managed to apply the cream on the spots but the problem was Cleo would lick it all up. And we worried that the cream is toxic and this could lead to liver problems.
So we decided we had no choice but the place the dreaded e-collar on Cleo. (Terry says, in an animal cartoon, it’s called the “collar of shame”!) I said we would only put it on for an hour or so, until the cream is absorbed.
So I searched and found Cow’s old e-collar (this is another story when Cow needed to have a skin surgery THRICE because he kept houdini-ing his way out of the e-collar and bit off all the stitches. It cost me a bomb!)
And the three of us (husband, daughter and I) placed, with much difficulty, the e-collar on poor little Cleo.
Cleo was VERY upset about it, and I wondered if the additional stress was worth it. Sigh…
And Cleo tried to escape from the house by going upstairs to her “escape route” (through the upstairs window, through the roof).
But guess who went into action when they saw Cleo trying to go upstairs and guessed her intentions?
Why, none other than….our very own S.W.A.T team!!
This is the escape route…to freedom. Bobby watches from below…
Cleo goes up…the climb to freedom…
But Suki follows closely…
Hah! Just around the corner waiting…is Indy! Indy already knew what Cleo would do, so he’s one step ahead of her. Atta-boy, Indy!
Despite the intervention, Cleo makes it upstairs….now under close scrutiny by the S.W.A.T team.
Bunny thought he should lend a hand as well (I mean, paw). Suki is already in the shrine room where Cleo’s escape route is (the window here opens to our patio roof).
But wait a minute, why is Bunny staring at our bedroom window? Looks like Cleo is not going to use her usual escape route in the shrine room, but is using our bedroom instead!! Oh, oh….are the windows closed?
Indy and Suki are in the wrong room!! It’s not the shrine room, Cleo’s using our bedroom instead!! Quick, get over the other room…quick!!
Too late, Cleo pushes the window open and escapes, right under Bunny’s nose!!
Daughter Ming-Yi shouts from upstairs….”Help, Cleo’s escaped!!”
So we rush out of the house to look for her. Pole comes to the rescue, and thankfully, we found Cleo about 4 houses down the road.
We approached slowly and managed to corner her.
I carried her back and took off the e-collar. It would be a nightmare if she was roaming the street with the e-collar. It would be a safety hazard.
So, the collar is off now. The cream would have absorbed into the skin by now.
Phew!! Not another Cleo escape, please. I have a weak heart…
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3 responses to “The S.W.A.T team goes into action!”
Can you do some skin scrapping on a slide for the vet to peer under the microscope to confirm if it were due to fungal infection?
Some caregivers here use Neem oil for cats.
http://www.discoverneem.com/neem-oil-for-cats.html
I will try that, thanks!
hi,
i have the same problem with my cat and i went to pet store and bought a fungal cream.
of course my cat licked it and after that he started salivating (i.e. his saliva drips) and i panicked and i wiped the cream off!
went to the vet and he just laughed, he said that the cream doesn't taste good and that's why my cat "spit it off", he gave me a cream where it's not toxic (so that if my cat licked it it's not harmful)
he said the best time to apply it is when he's sleepy so it reduces the chance that he may lick it off
wish u & Cleo all the best!