Originally Posted by
sundoesshine
Oh, poor guy, thank goodness you're there for him. May not be too equivalent, but we had a white cat that got out one evening, was picked up by an owl? and had it's shoulders broken. All that could be done was limit movement so he was confined to a crate and healed just fine, was quite amazing. I would think that just by caging, the healing would happen, even if medicated for the pain. Also, pain is stressful which can inhibit the healing process. Plus for injuries that big, pain meds don't do THat much, it just makes life Little bit less miserable. I might def consider withholding meds more for the Latter part of healing when he might inclined to overuse things (my cat Definitely wanted to get out and overuse his legs). I seem to recall giving him pain meds for a week or two but it was long ago so I could be wrong too.