Treat a Cat that has Worms & Internal Parasites

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan. I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic. I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com, and I am here to talk to you about taking care of cats with critical conditions, critical emergencies and health issues. Occasionally, you are going to come across a kitty with an emergency that has to be taken care of right away. Some common injuries are: broken bones in the legs and back unfortunately, neck unfortunately; these are often going to be from a pretty serious trauma, like being hit by a car. So it takes a pretty heavy duty trauma situation to cause this. You will also more commonly see skin injuries, like lacerations or punctures, and these are often from cat fights, or potentially running away from wild animals. And occasionally you may see, depending on where you live, rattle snake bites causing puncture wounds that bleed, and it won’t look like that first, until you consult a veterinarian, because those can be hard to interpret. But those are the two biggies that you are going to want to be careful as you bring your kitty to the vet, because you can make the problem worse by trying to do things at home. I do not recommend trying to bandage a broken bone at home. You are only going to do more damage, and if you hurt the cat doing it, which is pretty likely, then cats are likely to turn around and hurt you back. And so to protect yourself, you really need to get the cat into a stable position with as little trauma to that injury as possible, to avoid getting hurt. Now, with skin injuries, they may not have that much pain, and you may need to give some pressure, very light pressure on it with a cloth, to help stem any bleeding, unless it is so painful that again the cat tries to hurt you. So the best thing to do at this point is, you can use a cardboard box, but this is a wonderful type of carrier; that is, this makes well when you can learn to open them… this way… this makes a nice small area that you can wrap a cat in a towel, so it does not hurt itself, and place it in here; and then close it back up and carry it; and so this is a handy type of carrier to have. There’s many other carriers on the market, but this makes a nice one for that sort of thing. Otherwise if you do not have this, a box of the same size will do, but you want to be sure that you tape the box down, so that the cat does not really try to climb out of it and get out. "