Hey, ya’ll! I haven’t been here in a while, but some things have come up and I thought I’d ask for everyone’s advice:
My 11-month old kitten, Nika, recently broke her tail. You can’t really tell it’s broken from looking at it, although I do notice a slight “crook” in her tail now. We took her to the vet the morning after it happened and she got x-rayed and they confirmed it was a break. They actually wanted to amputate but I was against going that route. We decided to do some pain meds, an anti-inflammatory, and some separation between her and her brother since they like to wrestle.
It’s been almost two weeks and she’s almost completely back to normal. She’s using her tail about 100% percent. I stopped administering the pain medicine about a day and half ago because I didn’t feel it was necessary to keep drugging her if she was feeling better. Since then, her activity level and appetite have decreased a touch. When I say “a touch”, I mean a touch. She’s not eating as much in one sitting as usual (although she does eventually eat everything), and she’s been a bit more “hidey”.
Do you all think it’s because she’s in more pain now that she’s off the medicine? I’m torn between administering it again. Mostly, because I hate to keep giving her pain medicine, for one. Secondly, I’m wondering if a little soreness would be a little “good” for her in a way? Maybe get her to continue healing and not want to jump around all crazy like an 11-month old does? I’m sure all her activity during her recovery couldn’t have really helped that.
IDK. That’s why I’m here. Should I try to relieve any amount of her discomfort or maybe keep weaning her off the pain meds? My heart hurts so much for her so obviously I don’t want her to be in ANY pain at all, but . . well, as you all can see, I’m torn!
Any thoughts you experts have on this stuff would be most appreciated. Thanks!