Just back from a weekend away and all is not well with the cat. She's a semi-wild little thing that doesn't live here per say, but comes in most days for a stroke and some food. She spent more time here when there were two of us living here, but nonetheless is more our cat than any of the neighbours.
Some of the neighbourhood kids told me that she had a cut ear, and when we found her a half hour or so later I bought her inside for a close look. She seems to have a pea sized hole in the scalp just behind her ear, which is bloody, but otherwise clean. I guess it's probably a war wound from fighting one of the other neighbourhood cats. Because of where it is, she could maybe get a paw onto it at a push, but doesn't appear to be trying to at the moment. She's had scratches before, but never anything like this.
The problem is I don't really know a lot about cats and can't tell whether this is something I should worry about. So should I:
a) Keep her in for a couple of days until it heals (we have a tray).
b) Keep her in overnight and try and get her to a vet tomorrow (will require purchase of a transporting receptacle first).
c) Try and get some kind of out of hours service from the local vet. This one could be tricky as we're not existing customers.
Aside from the wound she seems agitated, but that's probably as much about being shut in as anything. It hasn't affected her appetite.
I'd normally ask Jasmine about this, but she's out of the country so I'm on my own. Any advice gratefully received.
AC
