cat with small holes in skin - possible gunshot wounds? help!

[Special]

ok so it starts about a week ago when my cats claw appeared to have been 'ripped out', me and my mum thought he had climbed a fence and ripped it out

anyway i came home from college today and my mum showed me what's happened to the cat

he has 3 perfect wounds near his bum, on his leg & on his back. they are perfect circular wounds which look just just like he has been shot with a bb gun or something

however i've just been looking online and there is a thing called 'cuterebra' which is like a worm which has the similar perfect wounds


2 of them have kinda dried up but one is still bleeding slowly


but if it's the worms why didn't the vet say anything???



help?! :S

[Accipiter]

Take it to the vet now?

It's the only way you can prove which really

[Recursion]

Don't ask here for advice on your cat. Go to a vet.

[Slowpoke]

But do let us know how it gets on!

[Special]

we have already taken him to the vet, she said they were just bites, which is very hard to believe because there is literally 1 perfect hole (not 2 like you would expect from a bite) - one on his leg, one on his back & one near his bum

[Jordan:A]

Did the vet give anything for the holes/bites?

[Special]

no, she injected him with antibiotics and painkillers & then squeezed the wounds in hope that either a bullet or a worm would pop out, but nothing did

she also advised us to bath the wounds twice a day with salt water

[Hopeless]

I know this is weird but I use BB guns regularly. I could tell you should you show me a picture of the wounds. Close up please.

[msal]

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[beth]

^ohmygodlol.

but yeah there have been numerous stories over the past couple of years of stories about cats being shot at with bb guns, which is disgusting.