My girl did this! Years ago my cat came in hopping, completely unable to put weight on her foreleg. I was so worried I took her to the emergency vet, fearing she’d been hit by a car or something. I got there and placed her carrier on the counter and explained the problem almost through tears… only to open the door and for her to trot out on all four legs and jump down with no hesitation! That little idiot cost me £85 for absolutely nothing. The vet said she might have got in a fight too and was feeling a bit sorry for herself, but there was no evidence of a fight and she had no injury at all. I think she was just bored and messing with me.
EDIT: I found the photo I took at the time! April 2018, I’m still not sure I’ve forgiven her 😅
My cat did that for five times before we stopped taking it to the vets. I think she thought that if she did that would give a tuna fish because we’d feel sorry for her.
Omg 5 times?! I’m still sore about her doing it once!
That unrepentant look on her face. I love it.
Yup! That was after we got back from the vet when she was magically “injured”again. She stopped doing it when I made it clear I wasn’t buying it. But when my partner got home from work the limp returned… only on the other leg! 😂 I love that little idiot!
Dios mío 😂
I’m curious what “lost a fight” looks like to a vet when there were no visible wounds.
The other cat went merrrrrrrwwwowwww at him, forcing him to walk away slowly over the course of 10 minutes.
Most catfights involve a lot of hissing and spitting and no actual contact.
Not a vet, but I imagine it looks like a perfectly healthy cat moping around like it’s about to die. I had a cat years ago that would get depressed anytime he would snap at my dog and then subsequently get snapped back at.
This makes me wonder if “got to into a fight” could mean he wanted a friend but nope got attacked, which makes all things sad.
Maybe it was a online fight
Yeah, those get me.
This hits way too close to home. Bruce Willis (just your typical black haired cat) is an indoor/outdoor. Before anyone bites my head off, my wife found him on the streets of Asbury Park. He was probably three when she brought him home. He is beyond where we can be like no dude, you must remain indoors. There would be a breaking point that would end in someone dying, him or me, and probably me. He just needs to wander outside.
Anyway, at one point Bruce just stops eating, drinking, the whole nine, to the point it’s concerning. I know that when it’s my cat’s time, I’ll commit. I’m pro euthanasia in humans, and if my cat is suffering, I will end his suffering. But I will also exhaust some possibilities beforehand. Which I did. To the tune of like $4,000 worth of diagnostic testing and everything. Vets were stumped but tossed him on an antibiotic, which obviously he reacted well too, and so Bruce Willis lives. I’m confident this was a case of his feelings being hurt, because they found nothing wrong with him and the antibiotic was kind of a, well, can’t hurt. He’s soft, but he thinks he’s hard.
Time for your cat to start….a training montage!
Even rocky had a montage!
(lol I assumed you had linked the team America montage video, it’s even better that you used rocky)
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Finally, a Rocky 4 montage and it’s not Heart’s on Fire!
The other day walking one of my dogs, the little shit asked me to pick him up, so I did but his leash touched his foot and he started howling freaking out because he’s a little drama queen. Heard a neighbor yell from somewhere “Jesus! Whatchu doin to the dog?!” 😬
