03/01/2025
🐱 Jagger, the luckiest cat in the world! 🐱
⚠️ WARNING: Photos of surgery, blood, and animals under anaesthesia⚠️
🚨 On 6/10/2024, Jagger presented to us out of hours after being missing all day. His owners initially thought he had been hit by a car, as he had lost the complete use of his right fore leg. Upon examination, he had no deep pain (no feeling) in the front leg, but no obvious fractures could be felt throughout the leg. The leg did not feel cold which indicated there was still a good blood supply to the limb! He also didn’t have any scuffed claws (which is typical of a road traffic accident). All of his other vitals were normal, and he seemed surprisingly bright within himself, and enjoyed a fuss from our nurse, Liv! He has a small wound with some dried blood on his chest/neck area that looked very similar to a cat fight wound, it was clipped and cleaned with antiseptic solutions and he did not object to it being cleaned. Upon discussion with his owners, it was decided that he would be given cage rest, pain relief, and antibiotics overnight and we would re-see him in the morning for an x-Ray.
🩻 The next morning (7/10/2024) he was x-rayed, and we were shocked to find that Jagger had been shot! By some miracle, the pellet had entered his chest/neck area and missed EVERY SINGLE important structure in the body, and had become lodged under the skin near his right shoulder blade. The pellet had damaged the tendons and nerves in his front leg, but had managed to miss things like his lungs, vessels, jugular, bones in his neck, oesophagus and trachea. Jagger is incredibly lucky!
💊 Later that day his owners agreed to have surgery to remove the pellet from his body. To everyone’s shock it was just under the skin! He recovered from surgery with no complications and was sent home the same day! It was unclear at this stage if he would ever regain use of the leg again, but his owners wanted to wait and see if he would regain its use. He was sent home with medication, rest, and passive limb movement exercises for his owner to do at home.
🍀 Jagger has since been having laser and physiotherapy and has regained the use of his right fore leg and is back to his normal self! He has not regained full use of the leg, but is able to walk and jump up onto things! Jagger is an incredibly lucky cat, who has made a fantastic recovery!
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