One of my cats had to have a few stitches

On Weds lunchtime Olly, one of my cats, was sitting with my sister being stroked. My sister suddenly noticed that there was a patch of hard fur ( about the size of my thumb) stuck to his skin. When examined it seemed that the surrounding skin was quite red... so we took him to the vets.
They put him under sedation and removed the surrounding fur, along with the patch that stuck to his skin. He was allowed home at 6.30 pm and had a 6cm cut, held together with several stitches, on his lower tummy near his back leg.
He has had antibiotic and some pain killer medicine, so he seems fine. He has shown no desire to pull the stitches yet and he is back to the vets tomorrow for a check up.
Nobody knows how he got this injury but we suspect he may have been caught on some barbed wire, on the farmers fence.
Olly has been so brave he is getting small portions of roast chicken, to cheer him up. If he didn't have a bald patch though, you really wouldn't notice his 6cm cut, because he us moving like a very fit cat.

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Poor Olly, I hope he will be all healed up soon Twink.

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Thanks Mags, he is doing well. It is his carer that is worn out and stressed out.

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Ah poor Olly, lets hope he recovers well.

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I am sure he will Susie. Today is his first day out since in happened and I have had to lure him indoors by pulling a long string across the garden and into the kitchen.... rapidly followed by shutting the kitchen door, so he couldn't nip out again.

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Poor Olly - cats are such adventurous creatures and get into all sorts of mischief. I do hope he is fully recovered soon.

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Don't have too much sympathy with him, he is currently asleep on the sofa , resting his head on a soft pillow.

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Poor thing, they try so hard not to show pain etc it back fires in that we don't notice things so quickly. Give him a gentle hug from us.

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I will Julie, he seems to be enjoying all the pampering he is getting.

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Poor Olly hope he is better soon....