Conference misery::feline_v1

    
    	Have you tried to extend each claw on that foot to see
    	if any of them might be ingrown?? 
    
    	Sherry
    

    If she puts up a fuss when you try to check out her pads, try wrapping
    her in a towel.  She may be a little upset, but she'll forgive you
    around dinner time.  :-)  If you can't see anything obvious, I suggest
    a trip to the vet, just to be safe.
    
    Carol
    

	I had this happen once to one of my cats.  I couldn't see
	anything wrong whatsover with his foot, even up to the second
	I brought him to the vet.  Well, while waiting for the vet
	Bandit was limping around the table and then there was a little
	blood and he wasn't limping anymore!

	He just had a small abcess which was impossible to see until
	it broke.  I imagine it is about as painful as a blister on
	a human foot.

	Give it a couple of days ... it will probably go away on its
	own and you'll save the cost of a vet trip.

	Karen

    re: dragon-flies  Age hasn't stopped Bumpy-tail who, at age 11.5,
    caught a dragonfly out on the deck and brought it down to show me,
    meowing all the way. She hardly ever talks.  It was quite amuzing.
    She was SO proud of herself.  :-)

    Well, I am going to clip her claws tonight no matter what she thinks
    about it, because they are way too long, little needle-toed critter
    that she is.  They definitely are not in-grown; they are so long that
    she clocks when she walks on the kitchen floor.  I'll check her again.

    Well, I clipped both kitties' toenails last night (I do both the front
    and rear claws since they don't go outside - otherwise the rear claws
    get so long that they click when the cats walk on the uncarpeted
    floors.) - and brushed their teeth (not a popular activity with either
    of them...), too.  JFCL tolerated both activities very well, although
    she still pulls that one foot away.  I think I will just leave it be
    for now - after I finished up with her (and she recovered her dignity
    after having her teeth cleaned), I held her on her back (which she
    doesn't like in general) and took another real good look at the tender
    foot, and I still don't see anything wrong there, either with the toes,
    the pads, or the fur between them, other than that the claws don't need
    clipping anymore.  I'll mention it the next time she has to go in to
    the vet anyhow.  The last time she was in I had them take off the
    little growth she had on her back all this time, since it had gotten a
    bit larger, so she looks kind of funny when a square patch of fur on
    her back that is only half as long as the rest.
    
    /Charlotte
    
    PS -
    Nebula, her half-Siamese companion, who is smaller and about 6 months
    younger, is a lot more trouble when it is toenail clipping and
    toothbrushing time.  One time Neb struggled so hard that I cut one of
    her back claws off too far up and it bled - she was MAD!  (And I felt
    guilty, too - poor little critter.)  She's a brat, anyhow - the worst
    thing you can do to Neb is to be the vet trying to take a stool sample.
    She is a super-affectionate and demanding little critter, but she
    doesn't like it when her human slaves overstep the bounds she has in
    mind... I love Siamese cats!

    RE: -1
    
    Love those Siamese!  ;-)
    
    Niniane is a riot when I try to clip her claws, brush her,
    give her medication, etc.  She has *so* many better things
    to do...it's *such* an inconvenience for her....Mom just
    doesn't listen.....so she huffs and puffs and gives these
    big long sighs.  It's soooooo funny!  Humph, humph, siiggghhh,
    sigghhhhh, struggle, struggle, humph, humph, etc...
    
    I suppose it doesn't help when I laugh either! ;-)
    
    Mary-Michael

    If you ever cut the nail too short again, I've been told you can
    use talc to help stop the bleeding. You can also buy steptic powder
    and keep it on hand, but if you haven't got that, go for the talc
      Nancy

    I bet Neb would have been twice as mad if I'd then tried to put talcum
    powder on her....anyhow, it lives in the bathroom and claw clipping
    happens under the reading lamp in the bedroom, so I would have had to
    figure out how to GET the talcum powder without losing the struggling
    kitty.  Don't worry, she forgave me even before the claw tip quit
    bleeding.  (She would have looked real funny with white powder on her
    black fur....)  JFCL is much easier to do these undignified things to,
    although neither one of them is crazy about liquid medication: it's
    easier to feed them pill antibiotics than the pink liquid stuff, which
    they gag on and then try to spit out!
    
    Good thing I love cats!...

    Well, I didn't exactly mean you should sprinkle Talc on her  :-)
    
    What you do is put a little pile of it into something like a bottlecap
    and then press the bleeding claw into the pile. The talc will stick
    to the blood and form a little clump which will "plug up" the bleeding.
      Nancy DC
    

    re:10
    
    Also, cornstarch or flour will plug up a bleeding 'something' like
    a nail that is cut too short.
    
    E.T.

    Nebula got into some flour that was on the kitchen counter once (no,
    she isn't supposed to get on the kitchen counter, but her pet humans
    weren't in the room, and she apparently was heading for the open window
    over the sink, which is a conveniently cat-sized place to sit with a
    nice breeze on a hot evening - and alos off-limits).  Boy, did she look
    funny!