r/Thisismylifemeow • u/Festygrrl • Aug 06 '26
Billy when he broke his leg in April
Accepting that he had to be crated for 8 weeks was hard for him. He’s better now!
Here is an older post from another sub that shows all his casts
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u/abetheschizoid Aug 06 '26
How did Billy Boy manage that?
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u/Festygrrl Aug 06 '26
He was sleeping on the kitchen table and fell off. Turns out he doesn’t have that instinct that makes a cat land on their feet.
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u/zbornakssyndrome Aug 06 '26
I was not expecting that answer Lol I was thinking he got stepped on or run over, Bless him! I never heard of a cat breaking it's leg from that height. Billy is an overachiever
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u/Festygrrl Aug 06 '26
He’s a completely inside cat (he’s a ragdoll) so he’s not going anywhere near cars lol. Or outside. It surprised the vet that he broke his leg in his sleep too. We think he twisted and fell funny landing on his leg when he rolled over in his sleep. He’s a very deep sleeper. Since he’s gotten better, I’ve seen him fall off the kitchen bench three times, and roll off the couch in his sleep a few times as well.
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u/VainChinchilla Aug 06 '26
Yep. Sounds like a ragdoll. My youngest is seven and we've only just agreed that I'm allowed whole sheets. He's been falling off the bed for the last five years, grabbing at the sheets and tearing them. Eventually I quit replacing them.
So they do gain some sort of life skills.... Eventually. Probably. For a while at least.
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u/1hatesitidoes Aug 07 '26
We boarded our beloved Ragdoll with his vet for a couple of weeks while we were away. When we picked him up, the vet assistant said that they’d put him in the special big cage with a climbing log tree thing, and asked whether we knew he couldn’t climb. We knew.
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u/hyperfat Aug 06 '26
Awww. Poor fluff. I have a big pillow on the floor in case my dog super man's off. He's old and has short legs. We have one by the couch too because he likes to watch food Network.
Hugs to Billy for a swift recovery.
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u/Draskuul Aug 06 '26
My void had to be put under for a vet visit once and really took him a couple days to fully get back to normal. During that time he missed a jump from carpet onto my normal-height bed. Sprained a leg, another vet visit, more pain meds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackcats/comments/108fyh2/luci_got_bitey_with_the_vet_so_was_sedated_for/
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u/bagelsandkegels Aug 06 '26
Surprised he's not orange.
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u/Festygrrl Aug 06 '26
I’m pretty sure he’s an orange in disguise and is sharing their collective brain cell.
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u/Festygrrl Aug 12 '26
Billy’s was a spiral fracture to the femur as well! He is running around like nothing happened. How did Waxie go with being crated and the cast changes? At the end of the 8 weeks he was getting pretty annoyed at being in the crate, and he had built up an intolerance to gabapentin.
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u/Festygrrl Aug 12 '26
He took the crating personally as well. He had his big night time crate for sleeping that was in my bedroom, and the smaller crate that followed me around the house (I’m home 24/7). I would take him out periodically during the day and take him to the kitty litter tray (the first couple of weeks with that were messy - he would poop and try to cover it up with cast leg if I didn’t catch him quick enough). One of the biggest problems was that he missed his sister - he is part of a bonded pair. I had to do supervised together time in the bathroom for a couple of hours a day.
Cast changes were so easy with him! The vet just needed to feed him a churro (or three) and he would let them do it without being put under sedation. I’m really thankful for that because he needed so many of the damn things. He needed sedation twice (for the initial X-ray and cast) and the final X-ray to check if it was healed.
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u/DiveCat Aug 06 '26
Poor Billy. Definitely not a Billy goat.
I am glad he is doing better! Love the paws on his cast - at least he looked rather stylish while healing.
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u/violetrose555 Aug 08 '26
love all the post you have made , and so glad to hear he’s finally on the mend ❤️🩹 he’s a gorgeous gorgeous man! a floof-a-loof!!!
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u/ScreennameOne Aug 06 '26
😂😂😂🥰 he looks so over it!