Our cat was shot and one of the pellets is in his lower spine. Our Vet said that he would be fine and sent us home with antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. He did not get surgery the pellet was left in. A few hours later (and after the vet has closed) he tried to get up and his back legs won't move. He has feeling and reactions but he can't walk. The vet is closed until Monday. We are not sure if we need to do anything to get him to pee or eat...we would like some advice on how to care for him until Monday.

We just brought a cat home from the humane society. She was shot in the past, she limps some and it is on her back right side/hip. I was told there are still some bb's still inside her . Not sure where....and she also is over weight...she was spayed in Feb 2018 and is up to date on shots....she needs to loose some weight however I think that is going to be difficult due to her leg and condition. I think I need to take her to my vet and let them do a xray, and check her over well....so they can see exactly what happened to her and where if any bb's are still in there because she seems to be tender on her underbelly and does not like to be picked up often..her joints may be hurting her to, I think because she's a bit over weight plus being injured. I'm worried for her, I just want to give her a happy life and make sure I'm doing what I need to in order to give her that.

I think my cat got shot by a B.B. gun or a pellet gun on his right back side, he is eating well and jumping off my bed like a champ. But when I touch any part of his back he cries. His wound doesn’t look deep. But it is a open round circle wound almost the size of a dime and it is discharging out yellowish watery liquid. I’ve been cleaning the wound 3 time a day and sprayed it with a wound spray. Today is the second day of his open wound. Does he need to go see a vet? Or can I just keep cleaning his wound and keep spraying him with the wound spray? Also I’ve been giving him an aching aid meds that I bought off the counter from petsmart it is “Licks brand” it seems like it’s helping his pain.

My cat was missing for a day and he came back home the other day. I noticed he had a lump on the side of his hip yesterday. Today it went completely bald in the area and there are two red circular wounds that are leaking an orange reddish colour which I'm guessing is blood. He's licking the area pretty often but acts as if he is not in pain and cane move perfectly fine. The deep dots look similar to a BB gun wound but the thing is their are two perfectly shaped dots within an inch apart.

I recently just got home from vacation and my cat has been home she is a inside outside cat and when I got home today I picked her up and realized some sticky Stuff on my arm when I put her down I then realized on her tail there was a circular wound with no hair around it and on the other side I could feel I think a bb right below the first layer of skin and she doesn’t seem to be in much pain she just meows a lot when I pet near her tail and licks it a lot.. what should I do best to help her get better and help her be in less pain without seeing a vet?

My cat, Max was attacked by an animal in Toronto, about a month after we moved there. The vet took x-rays and treated Max's wounds. The x-rays showed three bullets inside him that we had no idea about. I looked online and found out that someone had been shooting cats in Winnipeg the previous summer. I am horrified. It is now one year later, and Max has an infection. We think it stems from the bullets that were left inside him. The vet suggested that the bullets were not near internal organs, so we could investigate them after he recovered. He has seemed fine—very active for the last year. My question is, do the bullets need to be removed? He is on antibiotics now. The vet did not respond when I asked about the previous year's x-rays.

So we have our baby girl Spice and we just recently noticed she wasn’t going up on her cat tree as she normally would and also wasn’t going outside at all and that wasn’t normal for her at all! So we started to look at her and we have no idea how long this has been but there’s an entry and exit wound on the middle of her back very high and it had to literally miss breaking her back by millimeters , either way she’s doing all her normal things except moving around as much! She’s still jumping up on her cat tree just not near as often! You can tell the area is still very tender but there’s no drainage and the hair is matted up into a scab. Is there huge cause for concern for her?