GROSS!!!!!!!

This is a close up of the chest of our 'new kitten'.
It used to have a kind of small wound on its chest, with a fairly large mound under the skin, so I thought perhaps it had a puncture wound (like a splinter or something) that would eventually work itself out. About a week later, another wound formed kind of on the other end of the internal lump and so we had 2 slightly seeping round sores.
Then a couple days I looked at it and thought it looked really quite good, like the wounds were healing.
We had decided not to take it to the vet, but let it get better or worse on its own after the last episodes with vets our family (mom) went through.
Then today, Emma was holding it and commenting on the wound looking good, I took it from her expecting to see it looking all healed when I noticed this....


















A hard protuding 'thing' that looked as though it was separate from the skin, like something coming out of his skin. You could see a hole around it...

Well...it is. It is a bot fly larvae, coming out of what is referred to as a 'warble', which is inside the kittens body. It often happens to squirrels, and is VERY RARE in felines, what luck we have eh?!!? Well, in squirrels, a bot fly egg gets laid and ends up on an animals skin where it burrows in and spends 3 weeks growing. Then when it is big enough it leaves the body (usually butt end first) and drops to the ground where it buries it self until spring when it turns into a fly.


SICK, GROSS, DISGUSTING, HORRID, NAUSEATING, MAKING ME FEEL ALL CREEPY CRAWLY, and well...gonna take it to the vet tomorrow where hopefully they will remove it and give the kitten some antibiotics to make sure it doesn't die. All in favor of this move say AYE! Seriously, it is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen, or touched (I was trying to see what it was, I didn't KNOW what it was and certainly didn't think I was squeezing the butt end of a freaking grub!!) oh, so queasy inside!

So, that is my fun tale for the evening. so horrible.