While I was moving around this summer, my cats had to live in the suburbs with my parents for a month. Somehow, by the end of the month when it was time to pick them up, the significantly more clueless one Gizmo had broken his hip without anyone knowing how. When the vet went in to fix it, I got some cool x-rays of the process. What they had to do was, since it broke at the ball and socket joint and snapped, they shaved down the connection at the leg bone and took out the broken ball in the joint. Then, since he's a cat and cats are awesome, a new one just grew in its place out of cartilage somehow.
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| This is the broken X-ray, you can tell the top hip is broken because there's more overlap of the bone than on the bottom. |
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| Here's after, where you can see that the ball has been removed and now there's just a gap where the bone was. |
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| Gizmo with his stitched up hip and torture cone |
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| "Normal" Gizmo |
~Beth
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