10th April 2012
On the evening of the 10th of April 2012, Cricket limped into the house with a very deep wound. It appeared to be an animal bite - she probably put her front leg down a fox or badger hole and got warned off by the animal inside with a single bite. When she first arrived home, the wound was bleeding but the bleeding stopped after an hour or so. However, her entire leg was swollen and all she wanted to do was sleep. She found it very painful to move and I had to reposition her often so she wasn't lying on the wounded leg. For the first few hours, she wouldn't lie down at all, but slept standing up.
She didn't want to eat, but she was enthusiastic about drinking semi-skimmed milk. She wouldn't drink plain water. To prevent dehydration, I gave her the milk with colloidal silver mixed into it and left her to sleep without disturbance.
26 April 2012
This is a photo of Cricket's leg 16 days later. The skin had grown back over 70% of the wound, and the fur had also regrown along with it. Cricket, by this time, had long regained her appetite and had resumed normal cat duties, including hunting.
11 May 2012
This photo was taken 15 days later. Cricket's bite wound had closed and the fur was rapidly growing over as well.
So in just over a month, Cricket had completely recovered from a deep raw wound, probably from a wild animal bite - a bite which may have carried some very nasty bacteria. To take her to a vet would have been, in my opinion, pointless - possibly even detrimental. The wound was too wide to be stitched. The trip to and from a vet would have been very stressful and painful for her, and I was not prepared to post large antibiotic tablets down her throat two or three times a day as may have been prescribed by a vet. Antibiotics have side-effects, and I believe that colloidal silver is unbeaten for its ability to prevent and eliminate infection and promote healing. To avoid distressing Cricket and also risk contamination from cotton wool, etc, the colloidal silver was never applied topically. I did try (once) to drop the silver onto the wound, but Cricket made it very obvious that she didn't want that. So I relied on the silver doing its work internally and systemically.
I am hoping that Cricket will now be more selective regarding where and what she explores.
