Cat Health Paws

Be Wary Of Your Cat Licking Her Paws.

Cats love to nibble on their paws and they do it quite a lot. Sometimes, just watching your pet cat doing things like this can make you go, “Oh, look how cute she is, nibbling her paws, and washing her face with it! She sure is a clean cat!” The fact of the matter is, cats do this to clean their paws and their face but there are other reasons why they do this and as a cat owner, you have to be very attentive to this. Your pet might have some infection in her paws and you don’t know it yet. You need to learn some “cat health paws” information.

As you know, you can’t avoid your cat strayed in backyards, in trash cans, in other people’s houses, out on the street, on the back street and God knows where else.  Sooner or later, it might jump up a tree and decided to jump down again on the ground but that won’t hurt them because they’re good at that. You think so? What if she jumped on a broken bottle? What if she accidentally stepped in something that can make her hurt her paws? What if it’s a rusted nail? You may never know what will be happened next, right?

There was once a neighbor who owns 2 cats and the younger one recently died from tetanus.  But before that fateful day, Nida, not her real name, have observed how her little Dorothy was limping whenever she walked and when she finally settle down to take a rest, she would lap at her right paw for minutes and sometimes, it would take an hour before she finishes with her licking and her lapping.

Nida was not worried even just for a bit because she thought it was natural for cats to lap their paws which is really a natural way.

But days passed and her little Dorothy kept licking on that particular paw- the left one and this made her start to worry. So, Nida picked up her tabby friend and decided to take a look at it and there it was. A little rusted nail have penetrated deep into the soft paw of Dorothy and when she decided to remove it, Dorothy wailed the loudest wail that Nida had ever heard of and she quickly pushed her panic button.

She didn’t know what to and the best thing that I told her was to call her vet and she did but it was too late.

Today was the second month since Dorothy left and Nida was still shocked. She loved that cat so much and now, she only have old Patpat for a companion.

For all the cat lovers out there, when you see your tabby friend licking its paws and although you might find it normal or natural for them to do that, never hesitate to check and see if something is causing all those lapping and licking. It never hurts to learn more “cat health paw” information and that could save or ruin your cat’s life. You cat is always the outgoing type and you will never know what hit them or what they will hit, right?