My poor, poor, cat:[ Help, advice?

SarahCun · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 266

We came back from vaca and my ca was smelling... gross, so I looked at her bottom and she had this huge clump of poo mixed in with a bunch of fur. We can take it out, and if we leave it in... Anyways, all the vets in the area are closed. Anyone out there know what to do? We were thinking of giving her a bath, but she is a longhaired cat and I have no idea how to even wash her:\

Amara · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 2274

Just cut it off, lol.. theres nothing rong with her (by the sounds of it) so cutting it off will be okay.. cats hate water to to save yourself from plastic sergery - dont bathe her

SarahCun · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 266

Well, we bathed her. It was interesting. We wrapped her upper body in a towel and dipped her lower body into a bucket, then cut off the pooXD She's still a bit damp now... but poo free! She also has a lump in her stomach-ish area that I'm a bit concerned about. I can't bear to be torn from my cat yet:[ However, she IS 16 years old-.-

Cecelia · Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 1487

Examine her stomach closely.It may just be a festered clump of matted hair Wink

or it could be more serious in either case try to find a vet soon. Smile

SarahCun · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 266

It's not matted fur, it's obviously under the skin:[ We are thinking its either a hernia*sp?* or tumor.

RatMad · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 10

The lump could be anything, get her to a vet for them to check it out. Lumps are very common in older animals.

I have two 17yr old cats and both have small cysts that the vets don't think are serious enough to risk an op. Tessa has had one of the lumps for about 6 years and it's never grown, got worse in any way or bothered her at all. We do keep an eye on it just in case though.

She also had a lump that came up last year and was more aggressive than the others so despite her age we did risk the op to get it removed and she has made a full recovery and no more have grown in its place.

nine times out of ten these things can just be left but there's always the one in ten chance that it's something more so always worth getting it checked out.

Whatever it is I hope she's ok, give her a cuddle from me.

SarahCun · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 266

She's snoring in the corner right now<3

The lum is about an inch in diameter, if size means anything. My mom said we were goig to take her to the vet a week ago, but it still hasnt happened-.-

miki911 · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 147

can you cut it? try dry washing her with dry soap stuff.

miki911 · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 147

it may be chancer. my grandmas dog had sum thin like that and they had to put it to sleep. the vet told her to give it some pills. it was really sad. her name was Navoska . it means snow storm in Portuguese.

SarahCun · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 266

The poo is gone, but we are watching... back thereXD

I hope it isnt cancer:[ She should be able to live maybe 1 to 2 more years.