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Been feeding and watering this large black female for years. About 4 years ago something got a hold of her back leg. There is a bayou close by and coyotes. She was regularly slipping under a fence going out there. But could have been a raccoon, stray dog etc.

I thought she was a gonner, that it would get infected. But I corresponded with an old school vet clinic in the area and advised to get something called Vetericyn - a antimicrobial spray gel. I had to sneak shots at it because cats hate being sprayed with anything. And I only got a few hits. But over 3 months it healed up. Only a little bald patch at the very back of the leg.
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RPZIP said:
I thought she was a gonner, that it would get infected. But I corresponded with an old school vet clinic in the area and advised to get something called Vetericyn - a antimicrobial spray gel. I had to sneak shots at it because cats hate being sprayed with anything. And I only got a few hits. But over 3 months it healed up. Only a little bald patch at the very back of the leg.
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Thank you for taking care of this poor creature.
 
So a couple years ago, I posted about Smokey the ever fluffy monster that lives in my house having run afoul of the Klingons...... which took a number of days of repeated wiping sessions for me to get him to no longer be a roaming stink machine. Since then, he's not had similar problems, until the last week or so. I noticed he smelled like his freshly used litter box whenever he came around, which was nasty.

And cat people know that cats can be notoriously bad at drinking water. They often just don't use the water bowl; like some kind of freakish little camel hybrids, they don't seem to need (or at least want) much water at all. I have long since given up trying to get him to use his water bowl, and in fact, retired it, so to speak. I'm given to putting a little water in his wet food, and he's remained quite healthy.

Anyway, about his current conflict with the Klingons, I was concerned we'd be in for a week or more of stinky kitty again, but decided to just triple his water allotment in each meal. He gets a can a day, over the course of about three or four small meals, and these past couple days it's absolutely swimming.

I gave him one wet rag wiping session to let him know unambiguously what he needs to do, and the extra water for two days to help him do it. Evidently these Klingons are as vulnerable to water as the aliens from "Signs" because this has led to his rapid return to a not stinky kitty.
 
David Mary said:
So a couple years ago, I posted about Smokey the ever fluffy monster that lives in my house having run afoul of the Klingons...... which took a number of days of repeated wiping sessions for me to get him to no longer be a roaming stink machine. Since then, he's not had similar problems, until the last week or so. I noticed he smelled like his freshly used litter box whenever he came around, which was nasty.

And cat people know that cats can be notoriously bad at drinking water. They often just don't use the water bowl; like some kind of freakish little camel hybrids, they don't seem to need (or at least want) much water at all. I have long since given up trying to get him to use his water bowl, and in fact, retired it, so to speak. I'm given to putting a little water in his wet food, and he's remained quite healthy.

Anyway, about his current conflict with the Klingons, I was concerned we'd be in for a week or more of stinky kitty again, but decided to just triple his water allotment in each meal. He gets a can a day, over the course of about three or four small meals, and these past couple days it's absolutely swimming.

I gave him one wet rag wiping session to let him know unambiguously what he needs to do, and the extra water for two days to help him do it. Evidently these Klingons are as vulnerable to water as the aliens from "Signs" because this has led to his rapid return to a not stinky kitty.
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Spresso is very good at it and pees out about 5 golf ball or larger sized litter clumps in a day. Very happy about that because she less likey to get urinary tract infections etc. she gets a little wet food in the morning and night, plus a little dry food ration is left out for her during the day and overnight.

She gets all embarrassed about it when I talk about it.....IMG_20250322_120058040.jpg
 
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