Discussion
My boy cat Ryu who's 8 now had a limp the other day. There was no obvious cut and his pad seemed fine ie poking and pressing around it gave no obvious pain. He was a bit grumpy as you'd expect but I left him overnight and it was still the same. It became more obvious that he'd hurt a joint or pulled a muscle as working up the front leg you could see his pain reaction. I massaged his leg for a few minutes a time over the course of the next day and now after about 36-48 hours he's seemingly back to normal. He's not massive but is around 5.6kgs and the vet as for the last 2 years said he shouldn't put any more weight on. I think old age is starting to catch up with him and he's not quite as powerful and nimble as he used to be 
I know 8 isn't old as such. He went out the catflap in the dark and came back a couple of hours later with a limp. I knew it wasn't too serious as he could still run across a room on 3 legs and later on was quite happy to bat away and play fight using his dodgy leg with our other cat. It definitely seemed to be the shoulder area.
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