Pet sporn

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Does anyone have tales of pet sporn?

My dearly departed cat once had an infected fight wound on his jaw/cheek. I could feel it scabbing over but delayed taking to vet. When I got to vet she picked off top layer of scab and squeezed and lots of lovely white pus came out in one go and then clearer pus and blood. Then he had antibiotics. I’m surprised he wasn’t more pissed off about being squeezed but guessing the relief of it being gone and pain and then better helped him. I wished I’d videod that but don’t think vet would’ve approved.

@Ruralbliss - that sounds scary - blasted cats are masters at hiding their wounds or making nothing of the fact they have wounds and get infected!

My dog had a horrendous snotty nose. It was being wiped all over my clothes and furniture. Went to the vets who misdiagnosed her with chronic rhinitis. Changed vets who swabbed (as they should) and discovered she actually had ecoli. She was put under and had her whole nasal cavity flushed. Apparently it was disgusting but sadly I didn't get to see and they didn't video it. Selfish.

Brilliant thread!

My darling late tortie lived to a fine old age and had various lumps and bumps. One of them, on her back, got infected and grew. DH took her to the vet who was examining her when it burst - DH described it as 'half a jar of mayonnaise'

Current cat is an absolute dope and got himself an abcess at his front leg shoulder which was treated. Unfortunately due to the position of the abcess, it formed a pocket with nastiness building up lower down his leg, while the original site apparently healed beautifully. This was over Xmas, obviously. Xmas eve it looked a little bruised below the first abscess, I kept an eye on it and by the time we could get back to the vet on boxing day a huge monstrous oozing swamp of festerage had burst out a good 2 inches lower down on his elbow. Stitches didn't hold because of the location (and cat didn't cooperate with not walking/jumping/doing wall of death round the sitting room), so I ended up daily emptying and bathing a 1 inch open space in his skin down to actual flesh and muscle, which gradually gradually closed from the edges in. Felt so sorry for him - but it was fascinating!

Not quite the same but a cat bit me and swelled my thumb to the size of a Bernard Matthews Turkey drummer. I had to have some procedure to wash the pus out of the tendon and tissues. I didn't get any pictures, but apparently when they cut into my thumb, the sound I heard that was like a water pistol being fired at a window was actually the pus and blood hitting the silver bowl under my hand

22 years as an equine nurse and I’ve had some belters.. love anything like that - flushing sinus wounds, tooth infections ( often go hand in hand!) flushing the odd vaccination reaction, leg wounds and one particularly memorable sheath tumour removal that got infected that I could get my whole hand in to scoop out the crap twice a day….

My old cat... was a scrapper!

Abcess one on his knee, I realised his knee looked an odd shape, he wasn't chuffed with me poking and prodding so off to the vets... I got there just as the vet was shutting up shop but he knew me and so we went back in.. now nice vet had taken off his work green top thingy... was in his normal clothes.

I think you know whats coming next.

He flexed the limb, he poked it, prodded, it he found a soft boggy bit and said ' i think this is a whopper of an..... SPLORRRRRRRRT.... abcess... It dripped all down the front of his shirt, green and yellow.. and lumpy. And omg the smell.

How I did chortle.

A week later, Mr Cat is sitting on my lap in front of the telly, stands up to do the usual cat, turn three times around, show mother your borthole and sit down in exactly the same position thing... it EXPLODED.. into my lap.

Cat, lap full of green and I got up, to the bathroom and into the bath and the cat sat totally still as I showered us all off.

One of current Ddogs gets sebaceous cysts which are usually a bit itchy for him and he will present himself for a squeezing.. it comes out like toothpaste but rarely smells bad at all.

Saw this last week. It’s a whole thread about a dog having grass removed from its arse. Definitely a Mumsnetter telling the story. Poo crumbs?twitter.com/bonesnorah/status/1533931957599485954?s=21&t=ldpCovYKHyIVgvXj42zpSQ

I have several.
we had a white poodle who was prone to blackheads, the best being one that shot out as long and thick as a matchstick, totally black. Then she started declining just prior to Christmas, couldn’t find any thing wrong with her, couldn’t get to vets Christmas Eve, she just as quiet. Awful Boxing Day I was scratching her chest and there was a scab. Which if course I poked. A torrent of foul green muck poured out, I yelled for paper towels, my mum came in and gipped. She must have had a tick which got infected.. she was jumping around in hours.
then the cats. Our bully boy got into a fight and got a claw in front of his ear. Which I bathed with warm salt water. It exploded and the claw hit me in the face.
then our elderly adopted old lady who was prone to cysts, including the last one which was the size of my fist and exploded all over her bed, (she was too frail and old to get to vet) It puthered out in a foul stream as she tried to gum us to death as we held her still. It was amazing.

I've had a few cats get abscesses and infected wounds from fights and be in quite a bad way, but we had one scrapper who was always full of himself. He'd stroll home with an abscess behind his ear or on his throat where some other cat had gone for one of his 9 lives, and we'd duly sort him out with a saline wash, vet appointment and abx.
He loved to sit on top of the wall-mounted kitchen cupboards which had about a foot of space before the ceiling. I very clearly remember the time he was sitting up there, had a yawn and a stretch, shook his head vigorously - and shot an arc of bloody pus across the kitchen ceiling. Oh my god.

One of our ATS was in a fight and got bitten on the head. I was cuddling him the next day and noticed a bad smell, realised it was infected. Gave it a poke and all this foul smelling gunk came out. A couple of trips to the vet later and a few hundred pounds lighter, he eventually developed a lovely round scab - it looked like a cigarette burn! I was convinced he’d have a bald patch but fur did eventually grow back and now you can’t see a thing.

Cats ffs. Not ATS!

Omg - I’d totally forgotten about my greyhound and his abscess, we had no idea there was anything wrong with him until it burst on a Saturday late morning ( naturally - vets is 20 minutes away and they closed at 1 🙄🙄) and he ran blood and pus all round the house… rang the vets to check I was correct in thinking blood is much better off inside my dog to get “ oh Percy - tell your mum to bring you in….” 🤣🤣🤣 it was EVERYWHERE 🤣🤣😍

My old cat Smoky got an anal gland blockage once. I took him to the vet straight away to get it cleared. Vet squeezed, contents of analysis gland went everywhere all over vet. It absolutely STANK. All of us inuding cat traumatised. But the old boy felt much better and stopped walking like John Wayne.

My pug has inverted nipples. They’re quite deep holes and they fill up with all manner of grub. When I first adopted him, his old owners obviously hadn’t been aware of this, I was giving him a belly rub and felt a kind of rough lump. Parted his fur to find what looked like a blackhead almost a centimetre across, squeezed the edges and the whole thing turned inside out, presenting me with a beautiful gobstopper-sized ball of grime and gunk.

I took him to the vets thinking it might be an infection but no, it’s just grub filling up in his nipple-hole! Now I just wait for them to fill up and every few weeks squeeze them the right way out and get the goo. He’s great for prodding and popping, he also gets loads of earwax and big strings of eye gloop which he lets me remove.

Can I borrow him? He sounds awesome!!!

Not my pet, but a story told to me by a friend several years ago that I’ve never forgotten. She had a Guinea pig when she was younger and he had a problem with his rectum that meant he couldn’t poo very well on his own. This meant they used to have to massage him twice a day to help him. It didn’t bother him and he lived a long and happy life. But he was like squeezing a tube of toothpaste. Twice a day.

That's not uncommon in older guinea pigs Coniferhedge.
But somehow less satisfying than squeezing pus out!

My horse had a horrific hoof abscess recently, it literally shot out his foot when the farrier found it. The poultices I had to apply for the next week were disgusting

Another cat abscess here. He started scratching his head, and blood and pus burst all over my bed and up my bedroom wall. There hadn't even been an obvious lump! He is a lovely cat though.

I'm back but under a new username, not sinister.

DCat had been in a fight (rare for her) the other week. Small cut or what seemed to be like it on her front paw. I just bathed it and put antiseptic on it and thought if it gets worse, vet, otherwise it's costly! A few days later it must've been infected as some green gunk came out when I was inspecting/poking the scab. I did take her quickly to the vets for antibiotics but she seemed fine after that!

My cat has dark bits lining her nose that I scrape out when she is asleep but I can only get the outer bits!

Wauden, we have a tuxedo too with a pink nose and he gets gunk in his little nose cracks. He occasionally allows me to get the gunk but even if he's asleep he wakes up if i start poking at his nasal passages!😂

You lot are revolting and should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.

Fancy writing all those disgusting posts and not including photos.

For the posters who did include photographic evidence, many many thanks from a sporner with disappointingly pus free cats.

(touches wood cos I obviously don’t want them to have anything painful)

Update unless I haven’t included it no photos as it was 1-2 months ago. Felt something strange on DCats neck, like it could’ve been a scab and it wasn’t going away. Dug in further and pulled 3 cats claws out which must’ve come from a fight with her hated NDN enemy. DCat did seem relieved they were out…