nicola f wonders:


a few years ago my cat was hit in the face by a nasty old lady with her walking stick
i took the cat to the vets and they looked at his eye
it had a cut in it
since then my cat is blind
he has never had any nasty stuff coming out of it
he has never rubbed it
and it hasnt given him any trouble
i didnt want the vet to cut the eye out
as it is stil clear
but recently the eye has got a little bigger
it isnt giving him any trouble
but i am worried
i know if i take him t the vets he will have the eye removed
but hes a old cat and i dont want hi to have a opperation unless it was for something that would save his life
should i take him risk a opperation
or hould i leave him happy
im at a loss here.
i love my kitty and dont want him to have a painfull op
do any of you have any ideas why his eye is getting bigger
please help thanks love nicky.x.
he is blind in the eye you can put your hand infront of his and move it around real cose he dosent see it
the eye is defenatly bigger the pupil is large and and slightly misty i thought it could b a cataract
i know it all started years ago with the hit to the head
at the time the vet just said it will heal and he belived it could cause blindness in the future
i think i will take him for a check up but i dont think unless its neded i will get him a op
thanks for the comments so far
the lady was 99 she lived next door to me
she did some real nasty things
she threw a boiling pan of peas at one cat
tried to poison the one she hit she put food down in her yard with bleach or costic soda in it
my cat ate or icked it and had the most horrid thing happen to his toung
the vet was horrified but they wouldnt do anything i reported her to the rspca and due to her been old they said they coudnt prove it
she also trapped one cat and he ripped his side escaping
she was sick
shes gone now to a old peoples home
i ove animals and i dont care who it is or how old they should be sentanced
my animals are my familly
and i treat them as my equal
that is why i am worried about tolouse
he hasnt lost weight or anything but the eye is just bugging me i think i will take him on monday to get it checked.

Emma wonders:


I have a four month old Ragdoll kitten called Millie who is starting her second day attached to a drip because she managed to get lily pollen on her. I was bought some flowers which were starting to come to the end of their lifespan and the lilies were in the bin which Millie, being her naughty self, kept jumping into. When I first saw that she had yellow all over her face I laughed at her but then something in the back of my head went “this isn’t right” like a weird mental siren and after searching “lily pollen poisonous to cats” on the internet, the information that came up nearly made me collapse – “blindness, renal failure, coma, death”. Yes, it’s pretty harsh and very shocking.

I called the vet expecting them to tell me to keep an eye on her and to call them again if she started having any symptoms, but they told me to bring her in immediately so that they could try to make her sick and flush her out. This morning I have spoken to them and she may need to stay on a drip for a while yet.

As bizarre as it sounds DO NOT LET LILIES NEAR YOUR CAT. They are the number 1 poison to cats. The number 2 listed is that lovely christmas plant called a poinsettia (with the red leaves). I find it weird that it is not more widely known. Maybe I’m a stupid cat owner as I really should have been more aware. You have no idea how angry I am with myself for being so careless. Please, please be careful with flowers/plants around your cats and please if you don’t have a cat yourself, tell someone who does. They don’t just make cats a little bit sick, they can kill them.

This website has a bit of info about other types of plants which are poisonous. I just feel that the more we spread the word, the safer it will be for our cats – http://www.gaylee.co.uk/Poisonous_plants1.htm
(sorry I can’t make it clickable but every time I try to do so it keeps crashing my computer!)