Okay so I found this little black and white cat in the garden, skinny and being a bit picked on by the neighbourhood cats, he quite literally ended up at my front door so I reported him as found advertised him on sites, told local vets but after two weeks no-one came forward during this time he had been living in my back hall/kitchen kept seperate from my unvaccinated house cat, after two weeks I started introducing them and apart from the odd growl and hiss they seem to be tolerating each other. The stray needs some dental work, has now been frontlined (although to be honest I wasn't convinced he had any fleas) but most importantly he has these horrendous looking bulbous growths in his ears, sort of emerging from the canal, to be honest when he was taken to the vet it was really to check for a chip and at that stage I was still hopeful that he might get home again or get him into the shelter for rehoming as I really can't afford a second cat so I didn't ask as many questions as I should but now it seems he will be staying. Obviously he can't be insured because the vet saw him and said terrible ears, might not be able to do much about them but that's up to you and he needs at least one tooth out and a scale/polish etc
I'm broke, I'm self employed and have been for years in the main so don't qualify for benefits so PDSA is out in terms of helping me out. the sensible thing to do would be to get him on the local shelter waiting list but this would end up costing them money and how willing would they be to have a possible big ear operation and a dental on an 'older' cat? Besides he's a wee sweetie.
Oh dear.
Really the question is does anyone know much about these awful growths in his ears and the likely treatments....
