Partial success!

We have a freaked out, semi-feral, injured kitteh INSIDE the house!  He's hiding under the futon being real quiet, but he's inside!  (We figured that this was probably a good prelude to getting him inside the carrier so that this nasty abscess under his right forearm that I discovered - sigh - Friday morning can be looked at.)

Kitty update

     It turns out that Mouse Cat has not one but two injuries.  The one we could see was basically in his right armpit.  The vet says that that one actually is starting to heal up pretty nicely.  But there's another puncture wound in the same limb, close to the elbow, where the puncture penetrates muscle, that the vet's less happy about.  She wants us to watch it for a few days; she thinks it'll heal by itself and she really doesn't want to have to stitch it if she doesn't have to.  So all that is at least tentatively good.
    Another distinctly good thing is that veterinary medicine has advanced since the last time antibiotics were prescribed for any cat of ours.  The usual practice is to give the cat two doses of Clavamox (dosage adjusted for weight, which for big cats like Bernie and Fluffy can mean 1.5 large pills) daily for 10-14 days.  This was going to be oh so much fun with poor little Mouse, who is semi-feral.  To my great joy, there's now an injection that can be given!  I don't know how it works exactly, but it's effectively a 2-week dose of antibiotic.  No pilling Mouse!  Happiness!
    The vet says that Mouse has been simultaneously very brave and too terrified to move.  This is completely in keeping with what he was doing earlier when I saw him with the vet briefly.  He really is a good sweet cat.
    He's home now, back under the futon.  But he's closer to the edge of it than he was this morning, and is currently in much more of a 'cat at rest' position than a 'cat in panic mode' position.  I think he's going to be ok.  :)