If there are no other visible wounds, I would try your best to wash out the one puncture. You can just use some antibacterial soap and water to wash it out. If it's not bleeding, I would leave it open to air. You can apply something like Neosporin or Bacitracin (antibiotic ointment) to the wound. If it at all looks like there's a broken bone, it's best to probably not manipulate it and keep her confined so se doesn't move. If there are no vets open today, keep an eye on her and make sure she's acting reasonably normal and eating/drinking. Not all of her injuries may be obvious. It may be a cat bite, but for example dog bites are crushing injuries and don't necessarily cause any visible puncture wounds. Especially make sure she doesn't have difficulty breathing. Keep her confined and quiet as much as possible. DO NOT give her anything for pain. Aspirin, Tylenol, ibuprofen are all toxic for cats.

Edit: I forgot to mention that since it is potentially a bite wound, rabies is a concern. Discuss it with your vet but your cat may need to be temporarily quarantined.

Oh thank you so much for your help Kindred! I appreciate you taking the time to help and message me Thankfully, she just got vaccinated a while ago.


And I posted this question last night about the kitty and I stayed up all night and morning checking on her and fell asleep around noon. Woke up 2 hours later and kitty was GONE! We searched the house high and low and finally went outdoors thinking it was the only other place left. We all spent the entire evening out in the woods with no luck. I came back at 10pm tonight and apparently Puffin had holed up in my old bedroom! I have no clue where she had been hiding because we searched everywhere, but she came out and found another dark, quiet room to rest in. There's no swelling, she seems OK except for her foot and of course that makes her not feel like moving around. We have no luck of seeing a vet anytime soon so I'm having to wing it.

Js250: I am the same way! Lol. ALL of our pets were taken in due to idiots dumping them on our road or a couple that were in abusive homes. I can't let the poor animals stay out on the street so we usually take them in if we can.

Thanks for all the help ya'll. Like I said, she growls and just ends up hurting herself if I try to go near the foot. She does not want it touched and I'm not going to hurt her. I will try later. She likes me to pet and love her, but she won't have touching that foot. When I try, she growls and shifts and then yells in pain from trying to move. I will just wait. She seemed to feel a little better and when she wakes up she may let me clean it or something and work on keeping it from getting infected. I really want to find some kind of medicine for cats that will help the pain.

Thank you for so much help! She really didn't have hardly any blood and it's kind of a puncture like wound so she is able to lick it. I knew dogs had the healing tongue, but I didn't know cats did too! How cool. There's been no dishcarge from the wound and she actually tries walking on it. I noticed she laid on her side with that foot under her with no problem, but when she shifts on it or puts pressure on it, she growls. She hasn't hobbled or anything, but she seems to be walking with more of her weight on the other feet. She's really only got up once today though so maybe it's having time to heal? No, she doesn't drag it. It mostly just looked like she was walking very slow. Her foot touches the ground when she walks. I will certainly keep an eye out for all of those things you told me. The little puncture is on top of her back foot, further back from where her pads are, I guess right before her heel. It doesn't look like it went all the way through, but it's hard to tell. She doesn't purr, but when I first found her, her breathing was rapid and she made light sounds when breathing. That went away after minutes. No moaning, only growling when she shifts on the foot.

She does seem alert, but in pain too. She's responsive to me and will even nudge me to pet her head. I haven't checked on her in a while since she's been resting in the dark, quiet room. I figured that meant she wanted to be left alone. I will go check her and clean the foot somehow today though.

And Oh my, your poor kitties! Those sound like horrible injuries. We haven't dealt with too many extreme injuries. We had a kitten that was bit in her throat by a dog and died and one was hit by a car and died, but other than that, nothing big. My grandmother is a kitty fanatic (must be where I get it from!) and she knows all about taking care of cats. She could be a vet! But I wasn't able to get to her today.

Oh, yes she was just vaccinated for rabies and all only a while ago. Looking at the wound, it's not terrible, but the way she acted was freaking me out. I do live in an area with raccoons! We have a family of them that come on the porch at night, but I'm positive that wasn't it. Plus I'm pretty sure it would've killed her or she'd have had some other injury besides the one. She's perfect everywhere else but the foot.

Thank you all for the help and concern! I will update when I check on her again. I sure hope she's recovering. I think so anyway.

Oh yea, she does not want to eat or drink! I'm really hoping she gets up and decides to eat tonight or that will be my next worry. I think she will. She was interested when I brought her water and food, but she sniffed it and changed her mind. She doesn't eat much anyway, but I expect her to wolf down when I bring her some soft cat food. She hasn't ate all day!

Honestly, I would be afraid to give a kitten a raw egg unless you farmed it yourself. The risk of salmonella is just as real to animals and a kitten would be especially susceptible. There are milk replacer formulas on the market that would be easier and healthier.