Treating a cat emergency without immediate transport
A pet owner is unable to immediately take their severely injured and paralyzed cat to an emergency veterinary hospital because of transportation barriers and closed facilities.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1waiting until regular veterinary clinics open in the morning
- 2cleaning the wound with warm water or antiseptic
- 3Taking a taxi, Uber, or Lyft
- 4Asking a family member or friend for a ride
- 5Calling local vets to check for out-of-hours emergency numbers
- 6Using public transport as a last resort
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“So my cat has been Behaving weirdly since today and no vets are open anymore my mother says that there is something hard in his stomach please we don't have a car and there are no emergency vets in my area”source ↗
“i woke up to my count not being able to move his hind legs. all the vet hospitals are closed, except for a 24/7 hour one my parents refused to go to.”source ↗
“i wouldve driven but i dont have a lisense because that is my freaking baby.”source ↗
“she thought he was slimy and didnt realize he was peeing blood and had maggots around the base of his tail and all around (god i hope not IN) his potty area.”source ↗
Where this came up
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