Update: took him to the emergency vet. His creatinine was higher (2.1 from 1.7 before surgery) and bun was significantly higher (70 from 18 before surgery). The vet tried to catheterise him but somehow failed. I brought him home and he finally peed a lot so maybe the attempted catheterisation was good for something other than pain and stress after all!

Also while he was very stressed at the vets he seemed to finally wake up walk around a bit at home and looked like his normal self. He ate on his own a small bit. However I think the antibiotic is not suiting him as he vomitted 40 minutes after he got the antibiotic. I've given him gabapentin and put him in his enclosure for the night. I will try to get an appointment with the cat specialist tomorrow. Fingers crossed he starts eating, drinking and peeing on his own. Does anyone have antibiotic recommendations? Anyone here with cats who have used Convenia post amputation or any other safe injectable antibiotic?

Thanks everyone for the quick replies and moving this to the appropriate thread 😻

Oh Hi I had missed this. i used a electric heated pad on him and now his temperature seems normal. I haven't taken his temperature because poor thing was so stressed at the vets and the botched catherisation. He's not very good with any interventions really but if his temperature falls again after gabapentin i will surely take his temperature again.

Initially the wound seemed a minor abrasion wound. But despite 2 courses of antibiotics weeks apart plus aggressive dressing of wound, it never fully healed and the position of the stump meant it would often, despite best dressing efforts, have pressure on it. The vets felt the tissue post scabbing is hyper granulation tissue and I will get the biopsy back in 10 days.

Maybe I was being too stubborn about the amputation and should have agreed to it earlier. It really feels awful to think he suffered for 3 months for nothing and now had to undergo amputation anyway. 

Hi All,

Thank you so so much for all your help comments and encouragement.

His name is Kaju (which is bengali for cashew: he travelled with me to Thailand from India when I moved for a job) So last night he kept spitting out the gabapentin even when I tried putting it in a gel capsule I didn't want to risk an overdose so i think he got about 40mg instead of his usual 70mg (it's liquid). He was a lot less sedated and moving about in his enclosure. I was wondering of it was pain but this morning he really wanted to get out: his behaviour seems normal and he's walking about as usual too. He peed again!  And was desperate to go to the balcony. So I've put him in a cage there. I've given him his gabapentin (full dosage) so I'll see how that affects him. The vet specifically said that his skin stitches in one place had a lot of tension and might rupture with activity so I'm hoping the gabapentin will make him sleep and not so eager to do the usual amount of activity. He's able to walk so when i let him out of his enclosure he is going to the litter box himself. He's also covering up after himself. I'd put a smaller (low sides) litter box inside his enclosure but then he tried sleeping in it instead of on his bed! But if i let him out of the enclosure, when he needs to pee he goes to his regular litterbox. Is it normal for a cat to have this level of normal activity just 2 days post operation? From looking at his eyes ears and whiskers it also doesn't seem he's in pain.

He did go to pee once more but nothing came out. Can that happen because of the botched catherisation last night? He's had urinary issues (utis) in the past but since going on a different prescription diet (royal canin renal select) he's not had it (touchwood) in 2.5 years