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What could this be? He looked fine this morning, now we happened to see this this evening—
For reference, this is a stray that we see sometimes around our house. So he is an outdoor cat that we try to help.
Could this be an injury, scratch, infection, sting, or??
Please let me know— if need be we can try to trap him and take him to a vet, not sure if we can afford it but we’ll make it happen if need absolutely be.
US Pennsylvania, cat is fixed, we are not sure on the gender.