He disappeared for around a day, we frantically called him everywhere and he eventually came back, but he was hobbling on his front paw and never put it down.

He's been the same all of today, I've looked at his paw and there's nothing immediately wrong with it, although bending his front leg very gently it seemed quite limp because of the other - but he didn't seem to be in any pain?

He can sorta move it too, he often paws at my girlfriends hair and was happily doing that this morning (and dribbling whilst he was at it, eww!) even with his bad paw but he's still having really bad problems getting around, and getting up and down in particular.

It's the worst possible time since the vets are closed over Christmas and I don't think are open until Wednesday, argh! Any idea on what I can do to help the poor fella? He's being very clingy too, currently asleep on my feet which whilst he's almost always very close by, he never usually sleeps actually on me!

Thanks (ps here's a pic of him before he got poorly!)

Is there no emergency vet cover available for you to ring and ask for advice? Cats are very good at masking pain.

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If he's still reluctant to put any weight on the paw, I'm afraid there's a good chance it is fractured. This is often the one indicator used to distinguish a break from a sprain or other issue. This happened one of mine about three weeks ago and as I suspected he'd fractured both his radius an ulna.

I would urge you to get it seen to as soon as possible. The sooner fractures are aligned and set the better in terms of overall healing etc. You also risk causing further damage to the bone if it's left unattended. Every vet is obliged to provide an out of hours service - you'll find the number on their answering service. At least ring them and they'll advise your further.

I'm pretty sure that vets,by law ,must provide "emergency out of hours"surgery's whether it is covered by themselves or another practice.Phone your normal surgery number and there should,at the very least,be an answer machine message giving you the number of the OOH surgery arangements.I dont advise you to leave this until Wednesday,it could be just bruised ,but it also could be much worse.Please keep us updated.

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I hope the little one is OK, but your vets should have an emergency number on their answer phone. I would urge you to call them at least and check. Our vets offer free advice in an emergency.
Good luck and christmas wishes to you. Handsome chap BTW.

I have to agree with the other posts and phone your vet. Wednesday is a long time to wait to get treatment.

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Please call the vet, he shoudn´t suffer so many days till wed.

Ah! Stupidly I never even thought of the emergency pet services, just called them and she recommended to keep an eye on him and call tomorrow and she'll come out if he doesn't get any better.

She also suggested to maybe bathe his paw in salt water, though I'm not sure if he'd like that!

Its all well "keeping an eye on him". it sounds like a fracture so needs urgent attention ASAP. The sooner The better. Good advice on here, poor fella will be in pain.

Hope ur kitty will be OK.

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you must keep him indoors and monitor him until you get help. the cat re homing people are always at work 24/7 if you have one near and the vets have an emergence number for out of hours it will be a mobil number. P/S a useful tool for monitoring day and night is a baby monitor comes in handy for many jobs