Hi guys,
I'm writing this potentially as a warning for others from lessons learned or to see if anyone else has gone through this.
I have a three year old cat who is basically my baby who I've had since she was a kitten. I work from home and we spend almost all of our time together, she is my only pet and means the world to me.
I live in Nerima-ku, Tokyo. My cat gets really frustrated being an indoor cat and one of the things I do to try and keep her happy is let her walk around on the ground floor balcony of my apartment (when it's not too hot of course).
Unfortunately there has been another cat coming to visit her from time-to-time, like once a month maybe. They would kind of yowl at each other through the gap between balcony wall and the building wall, I would go and take my cat inside, that would be that.
I had no clue how dangerous this situation was. My cat seems to have shoved her arm through the gap as far as she can reach and been bitten by this cat. She has two extremely deep holes on both the top and bottom of her paw where one of them has completely sliced her paw open almost 2cm.
She received vet care within about 12 hours after the injury and still has a serious bacterial infection. There's a sizeable chance that she could be infected with FIV or even worse FeLV, although there is no way to test for it right now.
Basically I am completely devastated and please let it serve as a warning for others to not make my mistake. If anyone is familiar with the stray situation around Nerima-ku like if they are spayed and tagged or not please contact me.
by Athelianss