Check all their claws? My cat got his claw stuck in a screen once and ripped it out. There was more blood than you’d expect from such a small wound.
Mouse blood seems rather thin and brownish to me, by the way. We’ve had a few caught by cats in the past. Not these little darlings though. They would probably be scared of them.
I found blood spatters on my walls once. Turns out, my male cat had a urinary tract infection and his widdle pee pee was hurting whenever he tried to pee. So he’d pee on the walls instead of in his litter box. By the time he was peeing blood, he had a pretty raging infection going on. Antibiotics hooked him right up.
Both cats female … are they spayed already?
No experience with cats, but guinea pig claws certainly bleed like hell when torn out. Check the cats.
Have you thoroughly grilled all occupants of the house?
Long ago, I opened my travel agency on a Monday morning to find blood everywhere.
I kept a Blue Front Amazon parrot in a huge cage there, and that’s where the blood began. It was clear to me that someone stuck a finger where it didn’t belong. For a week I questioned employees; only half a dozen or so had keys, so it wasn’t an involved process.
No one confessed to B&E&B (bleeding), so I was stumped. I finally called the police to make a report of NOTHING just in case. Only when the fuzz actually showed up did Rosalee* confess.
She and her hubby had stopped by to get some documents, and while she did, hubby poked at said bird and drew back a stump.
He said he felt so stupid that he swore her to secrecy forever! I don’t know how they missed all the quarts of blood sprayed everywhere. I suppose they were in a hurry to get away from the deadly animal!
Waterboard your kids. They’ll talk. :dubious:
- Her real name!
Bwahahahahah!
Well, I voted “one of your cats has a hole in it” partly just so I’m subscribed to this thread to find out the answer. A friend has two cats with pretty much the same disposition and they hurt each other a lot and you can’t always see the wound or get the reaction from the cat at all or not until some time later.
This happened a few months ago with our beagle. It was a bigger pool of blood, but I suspect he’s bigger than your cats. Our vet suspected that he either ate something that had poison in it, e.g. coolant; or that he ate something that had eaten poison.
In other words, if the neighbors are poisoning mice, and my beagle ate the poisoned mouse, he’d get poisoned, too.
I wonder if your cats ever go outside, or if there are poisoned mice coming into your house. The vet said one thing to watch for was bloody diarrhea along with bloodshot eyes. If the dog had both to get him in RIGHT AWAY.
Hey, don’t knock it, because you know, free pool of blood.
See that thing hanging there pretending to be a large bat?
Think: garlic necklace and holy water squirt guns
I was a medic on helicopters in the seventies in Viet Nam. It is the Medic’s duty to clean the helicopter. I was flying night shift. Night shift is hard on my (and anyone’s) tiny little brain
After the night’s flights, I go to sleep and wake up some time in the afternoon and there are puddles and splashes of blood in the helicopter. I clean it up but I seriously don’t remember what I did the previous night.
Wow. What happened to the fingertip? When a bird bites off a chunk of finger, do they proceed to … gulp … EAT it?
My cousin has two giant green parrots(?) they smuggled out of Guatemala inside their shirts when they were little babies. I wouldn’t give those snaky loud bastards a chance at any of my fingers in a million years. Darn obnoxious and demanding monsters.
I heard about a guy who was found, dead, in a pool of his own vomit. Not a kiddie pool or a personal lap pool; it was an Olympic sized pool.
That sure is something I don’t wanna try too hard to picture in my head… but thanks much as I’m already trying to re-taste all that coffee I drank.
Was his name Stumpy Joe? If so, that’s not his vomit. You can’t dust for vomit.
Perhaps that’s a bit hyperbolic…
Amazon parrots are large, with incredibly powerful beaks for opening nuts and such.
Biting down to the bone on a finger is child’s play.
Arterial spray is just one fun part of parrot ownership!
When I was married, we had 6 cats. (the ex got them in the divorce)
We had fruit trees, and when you have fruit tress, you have rats. The cats were expert mousers would often (and I mean OFTEN) bring their kills into the house to play with. Occassionally, the kill was not completely killed yet.
A few mornings my bathroom looked like a serial-killer crime scene. Blood eveywhere, but no body!
I vote for checking kitty nails and seeing if one of them shredded a nail. Nails bleed copious amounts before stopping.
Although a nail bleed can produce a significant amount of blood, I can pretty much guarantee it is not a shredded nail. You would see blood marks everywhere if that were the case.
L.G., what you discovered was NOT just blood, but vomit mixed with blood. If it was pure blood, it would have been mostly dried by the time you discovered it and not in a “pool.”
One of your cats probably retched rather violently and burst a blood vessel in their stomach. That’s normally not a cause for alarm. HOWEVER, if one of your cats has a GI bleed, it could be indicative of something serious. To determine if this requires a vet visit, you will have to inspect a fresh poop from each of your cats. If you find a poop that is very dark brown to purple-ish brown or black on the surface, but brown or lighter in the center, the cat may have a lower GI bleed (large intestines). If the poop is dark all the way through, or dark in one part but light in others, that usually indicates an upper GI bleed (stomach or small intestines). If you have problems figuring out if it’s dark or not, put the poop in a ziplock bag and bring it to your vet. They can tell under the microscope if there’s blood in it.