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Poultry and Pets => Pets without Feathers => Topic started by: John on July 24, 2016, 22:26
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Niblet is a little black and white moggy - very loving and affectionate, easy with people but in the summer she vanishes outdoors and we hardly see her. She pops in to eat at odd hours (as I've found out on my way to the loo at 5am) but that's about it.
Saw her a couple of days ago as she trotted past carrying a mole and she looked fine. This morning she came in for breakfast and I realised something was wrong with her eye. Looked just like a red boil. I didn't know what to do (I'm not good until I've had a cuppa) but she wolfed down a bowl of food and legged it back out.
Happily came back in this afternoon and we captured her, rang the emergency vet and got her over there. Upshot is she had probably been fighting (there's battles going on with the new cats up the hill) and her eyeball was ruptured, damaged beyond repair.
Now I'd have been screaming in pain - all she did in the vet's was lie down looking cute for a tummy rub.
The operation went well (removed the eyeball) and she may be able to come back tomorrow.
Not the best of days.
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Poor little girl :(
But I bet she'll bounce back and be wanting to get back outside before you've even had your first cuppa :)
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Since she'll be out in a flash given half an opportunity, I'll be holding her in a large dog crate. It's not ideal but she'll be safe. Keeps the other cats from bothering her as well.
I felt a bit bad about getting the vet out on a Sunday but she said I'd called it right. Suppose I'd better warn the credit card company an unusual transaction is coming...
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Hi John
She will be better very soon,unlike us humans,we take an age to repair,i want to come back as a cat :lol:
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Picking her up at 11:30 :)
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Poor little Niblet, but she will be fine. My mum's one eyed cat is still going strong at the age of 16. He shrugged his op off and got on with life, as if he had always just had the one eye. Animals are so good at accepting stuff and moving on :)
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Awww she'll be fine John, once she gets used to only having one eye. That's one of her 9 gone then?
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As it happens, the eye that she's lost was impaired anyway due to it being infected as a kitten. Cara rescued her from a feral colony. The rest ran off but Niblet got into a basket of her own accord.
Thanks goodness it wasn't her good eye!
Amber is completely blind and copes so well that it took us 3 days to realise there was something up with her vision and the first vet we saw said she was fine :ohmy:
She's disguised as a lamp shade for 10 days now - what fun.
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How is Niblet getting on? Annoyed by the cone of shame I bet and letting you know all about it :lol:
My mum's cat had a dodgy eye from an old fighting injury and that was the one he eventually ended up having removed after a further fight. They are a bit vulnerable on their bad side from attack from other cats
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The good news is that the wound is healing well, no infection or problems. The bad news is she's thoroughly fed up of being a lampshade and a prisoner in solitary to boot. Eating well and the waste system working too. In fact, she's putting weight on which is good as she was a little skinny. We're giving her the best (Sheba sachets) to make up for things and to disguise the crushed antibiotic pills.
She's managed to get the cone off 3 times now - despite a sort of harness arrangement to keep it in place. Actually hissed at me for putting her back in jail the other day ::)
I let her out for a bit of exercise twice a day. It feels really cruel keeping her caged but otherwise she could get into problems with the cone on and if she slipped out of the bathroom she'd be outside via the catflap in seconds.
Next vet visit is 2pm Wednesday to have the stitches out.
You can clearly see which was her bad eye (right) in this photo - her tail is amazing when she's spooked!
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one of our cats has gone blind, gradually so we didnt notice, until we saw her walking into things, by which time of course it was too late.
She still gets around and arrives in time for food, we are now afraid of changing the room layouts in case she gets confused, but she is still her normal happy self (especially as she now has an excuse to spend more time on my lap)
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I used to think it would be cruel to keep a blind cat going but when we got Amber who was blind from birth I realised how stupid I'd been. They can have a great quality of life - apart from anything else they're not so dependent on vision as us. Their hearing is fantastic, sense of smell and ability to sense vibrations through the whiskers get them through
We don't worry about furniture etc - she just seems to re-arrange her mental maps. BUT she's never had any vision which probably makes a big difference
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She's beautiful, regardless of her injury!
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She's beautiful, regardless of her injury!
She certainly is - but I'll be happier when the stitches are out and the fur grows back. It looks so painful at the moment.
We're worried about her coming out again. Chances are she'll be through the cat flap and away for a week.
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Poor old Niblet, glad she is on the mend.
Cats are amazing, what they can cope with. My sister's cat made her way home, curled up on the bed and went to sleep having been hit by a train (we think - they are next to a railway) and having her back leg amputated. There was just a hole where her leg had been! Vet tidied up the wound and stitched her up. She still hunts and brings back those little presents!
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Glad to hear Niblet is doing well John. Sounds like she'll be outside again pretty soon
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On the day her stitches came out, I let her out of the cage not realising she'd reacted to me giving her rich food by getting the runs.
Because of the collar she'd missed the litter tray and got it all over her tail. So she then went round the bathroom, swishing her tail. I realised the mess in the cage and cleaned that up and then looked up and around to realise the bathroom looked like a 'dirty protest'
Cleaned up bathroom - but managed to block the sewer drain with kitchen roll :(
Niblet to vets - all is well, stitches out but keep her in for a day.
That night she scratched herself. Decided to put the cone on but I'd left it in our car which we'd lent to Cara. Phone Cara who jumps out of bed and drives it over. Back to the vets at opening time - lucky it wasn't the wound but above she'd scratched - back in the cage until today when we'll be letting her go in a bit.
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The scratch being healed it was off with the collar and let her back out. So she vanishes from Saturday evening until today. She's really made a mess of the eye wound and it's split a little so fight through the tourist traffic to the vet.
She's staying in at the vets overnight for more work and whilst writing this they rang up to ask if I minded them trying acupuncture to help with the itching. Must admit to not being a great believer but worth a try.
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I have acupuncture for the pain of arthritis in my neck. It works better than pain killers!
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It sorts out the pain from trapped nerves in my hip, when the exercises don't ::)
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Well hopefully it will help - to be honest I had trouble looking at the injury, she'd really done herself some damage. And it had healed so well. Expect another 10 days in solitary for her when she comes home tomorrow.
Aren't vets casual? Hmm she said, I'll pop a couple of staples in. Please tell me she doesn't mean the same thing we fix fencing with!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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to be honest I had trouble looking at the injury
Oh that does sounds pretty grim :( What a shame after she was doing so well and now she has sentenced herself to another cone of shame episode and enforced home arrest :(
Staples are pretty awful looking, but they are a lot more secure than stitches. When my mum has her knee joint replaced, she did look a bit like someone had been at her with a fencing gun, but they did the trick.
Hopefully they stand up to scratchy little cat paws ::)
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silly niblet the staples should hold,i had 45 stables after my 1st hip replacement,they hold well,but they really smart when they are taken out with plyers,she should recover well all the best for niblet
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She's due to come home this afternoon and then it's another 10 days in solitary. I've telephoned the credit card company and prepared them for another shock. Expensive little moggy :) That's my retirement put back another month.
Son in law reckoned the way the acupuncture worked was every time she goes to scratch her eye they prick her with the needle. Made us smile anyway.
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What a saga!! Let's hope the staples plus acupuncture plus ten more days in hokey will do the trick for her
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When I picked her up yesterday it turned out they'd decided not to use staples as it wasn't as bad as it appeared when they cleaned things up. :)
But she's still in prison with the collar on :(
Back for another check on Friday but staying inside until next Tuesday at best. She's really fed up.