Last evening about an hour after had come in from his usual evening hunting trip, our cat was sat in the Dining room while I was playing on the computer. For some reason I happened to glance at him, mainly because he rarely sits in here when the fire is lit and the settee is empty. The fur under his bottom lip looked a bit red so I had a closer look. Within seconds the blood was pouring out of his mouth. Try as we might we could not see where it was coming from. And he was not for co-operating either.
Fortunately the Vets is only just at the bottom of the lane, so down we went. After cleaning his mouth up she found a cut in the roof of his mouth. A dab with adrenaline was enough to seal the wound.
£40 that was!
BUT why did it take an hour to start bleeding after he came in? As far as we can remember he did not eat when he came in, and he had sat on my lap for a while and surely I would have noticed him bleeding as much as he was doing. Very odd.
He has spent the day sleeping it off in the front garden in the sun after eating soft food instead of his usual biscuits.