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AIBU leaving injured cat

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cloudbusting12 · 27/12/2025 20:00

Please give me your opinion on who is BU.
Dcat has an injury on his back leg which is infected. He has been on antibiotics for 4 days and has a course for 2 weeks.

Today we had to take him to the vets as the injury looked liked it has reopened. Vet said it is healing ok but Dcat needs to where a cone as he is fiddling with it.

Dcat is not a house cat and goes outside to toilet through cat flap. Can go out using cat flap and vet said this is ok.

Here is the AIBU. We are due to visit relatives for a couple of days and have a cat feeder who will come twice a day to feed and also dispense medicine.

one of us thinks someone needs to be at home to make sure Dcat is ok. The other thinks he will be fine with the feeder visiting 2 x a day.

who is being unreasonable?

OP posts:
EmpressaurusKitty · 27/12/2025 20:03

I wouldn’t leave him.

Floatingdownriver · 27/12/2025 20:02

Stay behind. Poor cat. This shouldn’t even be a question.

Only2daystogo · 27/12/2025 20:01

How can he fit through the caf flap with a cone?

FrankSinatraonToast · 27/12/2025 20:01

I'd stay behind just to be on the safe side.