OCULAR OPERATION

Not quiet true, this post is about an operation on a cat's eyelids. At the bottom of the post, and I've left quite a gap so you don't see it accidentally, are post-operative photos and they could be quite upsetting to children or persons of a sensitive disposition. The poor cat looks like he's gone two rounds with Mike Tyson. I'll repeat this more simply.

Gruesome post-operative photos below! You have been warned and I'm serious.

The cat is called Rikki and he came with two others who have since been re-homed. He always looked down in the dumps and the longer he was with us at the re-homing centre the more obvious it became that there was something wrong with his right eye. Finally he was taken to the vets where it was discovered that the hairs on his lower eyelid were growing inwards against the eyeball and he already had some older scarring there. The vet decided to treat it with a medicated ointment to see if that could help which did, at least for a time, but perhaps inevitably it deteriorated again and so today I took her to the vets.

It didn't take Wendy long to decide that an operation to open up and stitch the eyelid (both eyelids as it turned out) so as to remove the cause of the problem. I left Rikki and went back to collect him around teatime and found what you will see below and, believe me, it is distressing. The good news is that in a few days he'll look better and feel better than he's done for some time.

Dept of odd coincidences.

While I was there, Maria Wilkinson of The Willows Rescue arrived with a kitten around 8-9 weeks old. This cute lively black and white sweetheart had a damaged eye which Maria was sure, correctly so, would have to be removed. Then, when I got back to Ferry farm, I was told that Andrea our dog rescuer was soon to arrive with an Akita (?, something like that anyway) which only had one eye.

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Don't worry, in a few days I'll show you the 'after' photos. And it really looks far worse than it is. But there's more to cat rescuing than looking after cute kittens.

Correction: update from Andrea.

The dog is a husky /collie cross which lost an eye after a fight with another dog which was a bit possessive over food, he is coming soon