Posted: 7/18/2006 3:33:55 PM EDT
It appears that our big kitty, "Evil" has an eye infection that is driving him nuts. His right eye is irritated and has some goopy stuff as indicated by this picture:  Short of a vet visit, what's your take on this? What will the vet do if it doesn't clear up and we need to take him, or should we go ahead and take him anyway? (and, what are your hours?  If you don't have a website, I'd be happy to help you out. I know how through google you can set one up with ample storage for free).Also, we recently found this little one behind our house and had my mother's 'traveling vet' come and do a poor job of just giving her her first rabies(?) shot (aren't they supposed to do luekemia too, wife said that he only gave one syringe). He said she needs her boosters in a month, and our big cat needs his yearly(?) shot(s) too, so I presume you do that sort of thing?   I wrote all that here in case anyone else might be interested (and perhaps might send some business your way  ) |
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My wife's cat has allergies and his eye sometimes looks like that. One time he had pink eye, again a similar look, and I still have scars from holding him down to put that antibiotic ointment in his eye. If you think eye problems are bad, the cat really hated the ear mite treatments. |
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try your best to keep it cleaned out. use a soft cloth and wet it with cold water. *gently* wipe the area of the eye in a direction from nose to ear on either side. This won't stop the primary irritation but it will keep the "goop" from making it worse. PS my wife wants that little guy on the laptop. |
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I can always use more business, especially from fine, upstanding citizens with guns. I usually look at the eyeball through an ophthalmoscope. If I suspect a corneal scratch, then I can stain the eye to make sure. The difference is that you can use steroids in a non-scratched eye to help healing, but steroids on top of a scratch are a bad deal. Anyway, I'd consider a scratch, allergies, or simple infections to be the top three possibilities, but usually allergies are bilateral. I do vaccinate cats, fix eyes, and neuter TBS's co-workers on a regular basis. I'd be glad to help you out if I can. The hours are: MTHF: 7:30-5:30 W and 1st and 3rd Sat of the month: 7:30-Noon. As far as your kitten's shots- unless (s)he's 12 weeks old or older, rabies isn't yet legal to give. It was probably an FVRCP (feline upper respiratory disease complex) vaccine, which is pretty much SOP for cats. As far as Leukemia, everyone is different in this respect, but I would suggest testing your new arrival for it if it is eight weeks old or older. That's to make sure that it's not already FELV positive- transmission can happen utero. If it is positive, I wouldn't keep it around the house any more because it could give the disease to Evil. I also wouldn't want you to invest any more money or emotion into a cat that doesn't have a bright future. If it's negative, and it's ever going to go outside, I'd vaccinate it for FELV. If it's not going to be outside, vaccination is a debatable point. Most people don't, because if they don't get it in utero, the only other way to get it is from cat-to-cat contact. I do give arfcommers a discount, and I do work for guns. -Hobbit |
