Be Kind To Pets, Vet case studies, Photography tips, Travel Stories: 4138. What happened to the calico cat with the malar abscess in 2019?

Be Kind To Pets Veterinary Stories by Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS, (Glasgow). 2 Jul 2022

In 4 Mar 2019, I treated the 10-year-old female spayed cat with probably the largest facial abscess in the world. Since that day, I had not seen the calico cat or the owner.

In 1 July 2022, the owner consulted Dr Daniel about nose bleeding in this 13-year-old calico cat and enquired about me.

But during the past 3 years, I had not seen him or the cat at my clinic. So I visited the cat to follow up. The cat had no more nose bleeding. The owner welcome me as we had known each other for over 30 years.

I had posted my consultation on 4 Mar 2019 in Youtube at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PegBnd_em30

As at 2 July 2022, this video has had 3,202,725 views since it was published. For those viewers, this cat had fully recovered from the surgery.

During my visit, I asked the owner whether he fed dry food in addition to the canned ones. “She has no teeth,” the owner lamented. “She had no teeth because they were loose and rotten,” I informed him. “I had them extracted when she had the large facial abscess.”

The owner remarked, as he had remembered the flea infestations on this cat's skin in Mar 2019 consultation: “My cat has no more bugs as my daughter had applied Frontline drops on her regularly!”

But the 72-year-old metal sheet entrepreneur could not recall the cat having a gigantic facial abscess when I asked him. His supervisor remembered as it was really as large as a golf ball!

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