Nugget the cat was seen hobbling around the streets on her own. Before truly understanding what was wrong, a concerned onlooker called the RSPCA to come remove the cat, and when an animal collection officer came, she was astonished at the state she found poor Nugget in.
Nugget had managed to get her leg caught in her collar and was locked there with no way out. She had a nasty wound under her armpit from the implanted collar, as if she’d been stuck for weeks.
“It was very terrible,” stated Lucy Green, an RSPCA animal collecting worker in a news statement. “Nugget was in excruciating discomfort. When I initially saw her, she was lashing out and snarling, but it had to be because she was in so much misery — as soon as I cut the collar off, she was perfectly sweet.”
Nugget is lucky she was found when she was, since she might not have survived if she’d had to suffer on the streets with that wound for much longer. She is currently receiving treatment at the RSPCA Hull and East Riding Animal Center, but she still has a long way to go in her rehabilitation.
Green claimed, “The staff at the Hull Center said this is the worst imbedded collar injury they have ever seen.” “Because her wound was so enormous, doctors were concerned that if they sewed it up, it might reopen every time she moved, so staff have been working around the clock to maintain cleaning and treating her wound, as well as providing her pain treatment and antibiotics.” They can patch her up now that it has healed a little further.”
Nugget’s bizarre injury may have been prevented if he had worn a different sort of collar. When a quick-release collar is yanked hard enough, it snaps open, preventing injury if an animal becomes stuck. Collars that aren’t meant to release without human assistance can lead to a lot of frustration and worry, as well as severe injuries like Nugget’s.
