So, it turns out that cats get ingrown nails. I've never seen anything like it before. Ashley's dewclaw curved all the way around and pierced into the pad. It also got about 10 times as thick. It's supposed to take a couple months for something like that to happen but I trim claws about once an month and Ashley had been in the vet less than a month ago. I suppose that it's possibly related to the new insulin treatments.
In any case, I took Ashley to the vet who cut the claw out of his pad. There was a lot of clotted blood at the nail still looks pretty weird. They gave him an injection of antibiotics and one of a pain killer. We also put a pheromone collar on him. In theory collar should mellow him out. He's been getting aggressive with Thomas again and keeping me up at night pawing at doors. It is supposed to be like giving the cat a beer. I hope it works, if we can't get him mellowed out, we aren't going to be able to keep him.
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