My cat has a abses and i am just wondering if i should get her tooth taken out? Meka is 16 and still eatting but loosing alot of weight. Still active but the mouth does smell and the tooth bleeds every now and again

I noticed Bentley (8yr old male) was drooling for 1 day and acted like he had pain on the left side of his mouth- had difficulty with wet food but ate crunchy treats. Took him to the vet - they said a tooth was missing/broken and they gave Clavamox 15 ml and pain med, and a treatment plan for extraction. He was lethargic for one day. It has been 3 doses so far of the clavamox and he is his perky self, not drooling, and hungry. I will continue to give clavamox, but will the infection come right back after antibiotic is finished. I need a couple of weeks to save up for extraction and cleaning.

My cat has a swollen gum above his fang tooth. He flinches when I touch the tooth, but is fine when I touch the gum. Do you think it needs pulled or can I put something on the gum.

My cat is 20 years old and has been pawing at the mouth and we think she has an abscess. She has tried cleaning herself but her hair is getting a black liquid on her that hardens and she can not clean it so she is pulling her hair out on her paws. She smells pretty bad and barely can eat food so we have to squish it and give her wet food which she tries to eat. I know it has something to do with her mouth and we tried to open to see it and we saw maybe a black abscess. What should we do?

Chance was fine last night. When I woke up this morning, I saw the right side of his face was swollen. Under his eye near the bridge of his nose. I lightly touched the area and he jerked his head back. It felt hard like a rock. He cant eat or drink on his own. So I fed him lickables it's a porridge like treat for cats. He ate that ok. He never been outside and he isnt around any other animals.He has always been a healthy cat. He also feels hot like, he may have a fever. I am going to take him to my vet as soon as I can get him in. Could this all be because of a tooth?

My cat Bohdi is 15. We found one of his fang teeth next to his cat tree, it is very green and decayed. I cannit afford a vet visit for another two weeks. Can I put hydrogen peroxide in the socket where the tooth came out just to hold off this getting horriby infecthe before I can get him to the vet? Thanks for your time!

Hello, my almost to be 8yr old cat Ralph has been suggested to get a dental done this Friday morning. He has had eye drainage for a couple of weeks, I took him to the vet and they sent him home with an antiviral med. He wouldn't take the pill, no matter how I served it. Then he started eating less of his food for a couple of days. He normally has a very healthy appetite. He also started to appear more and more tired. So I took him back to the clinic and explained his s/s. I was even resorting to giving him tuna just to try to get him to eat. They gave a quick glance at his gums and noted some swelling to the left upper gums above that one canine tooth. Not a whole lot of redness, the gum color looks pretty similar to the other side of the mouth. No fever. They suggested a dental because he may have an abscess that needs taken care of. They sent us home with Meloxicam and clindamycin and scheduled the procedure for four days later. Since the couple of doses of meds, he's been eating, not hard food, but tuna... which is an improvement. He's been more alert and active. But the gum swelling is still present with clear eye drainage. He was diagnosed with a heart murmur in 2014 at age 2.5-3yrs old and had been a benazapril ever since every day. My question/concern is with the heart condition, is putting him under for a possible tooth abscess the safest? I'm really worried about something possibly going wrong?