Rags has lost an eye
Last week we saw that Rags was bleeding from his right eye. It looked serious, so we took him to the vet, who noticed a lesion on the iris beneath the eyelid. Our regular vet is not an eye specialist, so she wanted a second oppinion and arranged for an immediate appointment with an eye vet in nearby Roskilde.
The eye vet Mogens Perregaard concluded that although an operation on the eye was possible, the prognosis for restoring it's sight was not good and the eye would quite likely have to be removed later by another operation. We do not want to put Rags through needless surgery and also we know that cats do perfectly well with only one eye, so we asked that the damaged eye was removed, which happened on the following morning.
Surgery went well and late in the afternoon we were allowed to take Rags home with some antibiotics and painmeds. He looked a bit scary with the stiches on his face and a soft cone, but he was in good mood and greeted the other cats. He ate, used the litter box - and wanted to go out into the garden.
On next Wednesday our usual vet Gitte Seiler will check the wound and remove the stiches - and hopefully my very best cat friend will soon be back to (almost) normal.
The picture shows Caithlin giving poor Rags kitty-kisses on the lawn. Excuse me for only showing him from the "good side" for a while, but I respect him a lot and see no need for showing his stiched wound in public. How the accident happened we will never know, but most likely it was in wild Somali playfighting...
Dushara Cathal Caithlin & Dushara Tatters and Rags (Somali cats), 31.08.2018
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Rags has lost an eye
Last week we saw that Rags was bleeding from his right eye. It looked serious, so we took him to the vet, who noticed a lesion on the iris beneath the eyelid. Our regular vet is not an eye specialist, so she wanted a second oppinion and arranged for an immediate appointment with an eye vet in nearby Roskilde.
The eye vet Mogens Perregaard concluded that although an operation on the eye was possible, the prognosis for restoring it's sight was not good and the eye would quite likely have to be removed later by another operation. We do not want to put Rags through needless surgery and also we know that cats do perfectly well with only one eye, so we asked that the damaged eye was removed, which happened on the following morning.
Surgery went well and late in the afternoon we were allowed to take Rags home with some antibiotics and painmeds. He looked a bit scary with the stiches on his face and a soft cone, but he was in good mood and greeted the other cats. He ate, used the litter box - and wanted to go out into the garden.
On next Wednesday our usual vet Gitte Seiler will check the wound and remove the stiches - and hopefully my very best cat friend will soon be back to (almost) normal.
The picture shows Caithlin giving poor Rags kitty-kisses on the lawn. Excuse me for only showing him from the "good side" for a while, but I respect him a lot and see no need for showing his stiched wound in public. How the accident happened we will never know, but most likely it was in wild Somali playfighting...
Dushara Cathal Caithlin & Dushara Tatters and Rags (Somali cats), 31.08.2018
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera