One of the older cats from the CL guy has from the get-go heavy drooling coming out of his mouth. When he growled at me, I saw his tongue was really strange-looking. Half of it white, half of it blood red. Then I had to go to the hospital and couldn’t get him in. He went in to the vet’s this morning.
Sully has apparently bitten a electrical cord in the past and it never was treated and so it was greatly infected. He has a huge burn on the side of his mouth inside his gum line and the infection was taking over his whole mouth! We gave him a pain shot, a shot of covenia and I have oral pain gel to give him twice a day.
He is now inside- the burn is months old and when I asked the vet why it didn’t resolve on its own, I was told that the mouth is such a moist hotbed of germs, he never stood a chance of recovering from the actual burn without vet help. Poor kitty. He is the living room, not real happy about being there but the vet said he is lucky to even be alive with the extent of the burn. Guess I can’t go out of the year without some sort of cat trauma to deal with! 🙂
Poor guy! I’m glad it’s getting treated now.
Be careful that he can’t bite another electrical cord…. I’ve learned the hard way that cats don’t always learn from their mistakes….
That’s a new one. Good Heavens, that poor cat. What pain he must have been in. I’m surprised he’s been eating enough to survive.
He will be indoors just until he finishes his meds. Then with prayer, he will become a barn cat. He was an inside/outside kitty with the CL Guy. But he has shown me that at 12+ years old, he wants outside. His mouth may be sore but he can still try to bite!