More About Kitty-George
AnimalCare 
Mar 15, 2012 
AnimalCare, NGOs 
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More about Kitty-George from Lydia, who accompanied Choy Foong to the vets this afternoon:
Kitty has some pretty serious injuries. This is what the xray showed:
Left hind leg showed a displaced fracture of the tibia (if Im not mistaken as the vet did not mention and Im concluding from my own viewing of the xray) where the bone has broken into several parts and the parts are not lined up straight. At one point, the bone is visible and has pierced through the flesh. This open compound fracture means that there is a risk of deep bone infection.
Right hind leg shows soft tissue injury and swelling mostly in the foot area and a fractured femur. There is also an area where he has lost flesh which has left the bone exposed. Again putting kitty at risk of deep bone infection as any exposed bone carries as risk of infection.
No signs of necrotic tissue from the soft tissue wound as confirmed by the vet and tissue is a healthy red. If a wound contains (dead) necrotic tissue, its a sign that the wound is not healing properly. Also the absence of putrid smell and pus from the wound is encouraging.
I tested his legs for pain response and both his hind legs had different degrees of response. The good thing was there was some response and in fact when I palpated his swollen right leg, he gently used his teeth to hold my hand From touching him further. The vet also said that one hindleg showed more response than the other. But we dont know yet for sure if theres any nerve damage.
Blood test result showed elevated WBC, normal temperature.
The vets course of action is to treat the wound on the right hind leg and address the infection with antibiotics.
The left hind leg with be put in a cast to stabilize the limb and hopefully help in fracture healing. This cast would be worn for about 6 weeks.
Should the right hind leg succumb to infection and turn gangrenous, then amputation has been. Should this be the case then to save the left hind leg, the vet suggests that the fractured left hind leg would have to be pinned with the aim of restoring some function to this limb.
Kitty will need quite a bit of medical attention to get his legs on the road to recovery. He needs firstly to fight the infection to keep things under control for his body to have a chance to heal. Throughout the whole time he was well-behaved and quite interested in his surroundings and looked engaged. I do believe he has a fighting chance and when I left I told him to put up a good fight and that we were all behind him.
When we left kitty at the clinic, it was indicated that kitty would be staying at the clinic for care until hes well.
Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2012/03/15/more-about-kitty-george/
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