My cat came home limping and I blamed a bad jump: three weeks later, the X-ray showed what had been sitting in his muscle all along
A cat owner’s assumption about a garden wall jump masked something far more sinister: an airgun pellet lodged in muscle tissue. Vets across the UK regularly discover hidden metal projectiles, grass seeds, and foreign bodies in cats presenting with mysterious limps—often weeks or months after the initial injury when the skin has already healed over the wound.