Can a three-legged cat live a normal life?

Answer 1

Yes, by the way since you asked the question, have you seen the on line video of the little female kitty who's back legs are crippled and she walks balancing on her front paws? She moves very well with her hind quarters up, so my answer would be yes, a three legged cat will live a happy and normal life with your love and care..:)

Answer 2

Because of their small body weight, cats do very well after the loss of a leg. Their human friends often take longer to adjust to the change than they do. It might help, however, to make the cat an exclusively indoor cat. It's reflexes and ability to avoid predators may be a bit hampered. Another helpful move might be to provide a few stools where the cat chooses to get up and down from things, such as beds or a favorite window sill. If a front leg has been removed, jumping down can be painful if one leg has to catch the fall from three or more feet up. If a rear leg is missing, it may be difficult to provide the torque to jump up onto high things without a stool halfway.

Answer 3

Definitely. I have a friend from Australia who has a three-legged cat named Smudge, his cat goes in and outside the house all the time and practically leads a life of his own. It can still jump and meow and do all the things it used to do, although probably not as quickly. A three-legged cat may have a hard time getting used to it at first, but you'll find they adapt quite nicely over time.

Answer 4

Yes, they live very normal lives. My cat had cancer and I had to amputate her back leg. I didn't know if I could do it. I asked questions like this and only got good answers. everyone was right.

When Sephie came home from the hospital, I was going to carry her upstairs and she jumped out of my arms and ran upstairs, showing me that she could do it herself.

She never liked being babied. She always walked on her own from the minute she was home. She still liked to go outside and acted just as normal as could be.

She was no longer in pain. The vet said dragging that 4th leg around was much worse than being in no pain and 3 legged. He was right. She had absolutely no problems with just 3 legs. She was just as normal as the rest of my cats.

Answer 5

My cat had to have a front leg amputated while she grow to be approximately 7 years old as she had a cancerous lump that could desire to have unfold into her physique. i grow to be upset yet she adjusted to existence on 3 legs devoid of issues! the toughest element grow to be protecting her indoors after the op as she has to stay in for 2 weeks for the stitches to heal and sidestep an infection. She nevertheless controlled to catch and go away us 'provides' of mice and birds while she grow to be allowed out lower back! She is now 17 years old and nevertheless going stable. Your cat will adapt and learn how to do issues with 3 legs so do no longer difficulty. Us vendors get greater upset than the cats! desire all is going properly.

Answer 6

Have seen a couple of 3-legged cats that were apparently nomal in every other aspect. In fact, one of them was a "bookstore kitty" and could be found perched in the front window display of the store or simply snoozing amongst the books for sale.

Answer 7

I have a friend who has a 3legged cat and it does live a normal life. She doesn't have to do anything special for it that I know of. It hops around and is a little slower than a 4legged cat, but otherwise, it's fine.

Answer 8

yes they can. We had a cat who unfortunatly was hit by a car. One of her front paws was badly damaged.We had a choice either to put her to sleep or to have her paw amputated. The paw was amputated and she recovered quite well.Her personality changed as she became more nervous of strange people and she would only come to us when she wanted to. But saying that physically it didnt stop her doing what she did when she had all four paws.

Answer 9

Yep! I had one that lived for 14 yrs.

Answer 10

yes