Our little male cat and his injured eye

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Cats have no sense of timing . Male cat was fine yesterday until evening when DH phoned me to say his eye was stuck shut .

Poor little soul, one eye tight shut , dribbling fluid . Couldn't open it enough to see what was amiss .
Did a couple of soothing bathes with boiled water and gauze then phoned the vet this morning .

He was able to open his eye fully , it was a bit weepy still and red on the inner rim.
He has a shallow corneal ulcer , no idea what caused it . He's most likely been scrabbling through undergrowth .

He's got the right hump with us now but behaved like a gent at the vets . Albeit a very scared heavy breathing one . No hissy bitey fits (he is very timid)

We took his sister along (for moral support )

So eyedrops and pawholding .

(I wouldn't let him out this morning in case someone saw him and decided to 'rescue' him or report me. Now his eye looks better , he's stormed off outside to wreak carnage )

Poor boy, Good luck with the eye drops. One of mine is always getting conjunctivitis, so has them a lot. Fortunately she's extremely docile!

Aw , they are so vunerable when they're ill, especially eyes .

He will be a little toad I reckon (he's outside now getting up to mischief) it seems at the vets he freezes and goes into a if I pretend they're not here they might not realise I'm here state .
When we put him in his carrier he was sticking his legs through the bars with claws out and yowling .

It'll be a 2-person-and-a-towel effort !

My God he's a lit blighter to get the eyedrops in, it's not the drops themselves , it's the catching him. He seems to know if we approach him to (in his opinion) Do Him Great Harm.
We do wrap his body in a towel to contain those jaggy little claws , makes it 100x quicker than trying to avoid the claws (though he's not a biter )

He's been hiding under the sofa or snaking past us , I'm sure he mutters Feck right off as he goes by

The eye is looking better , not quite there yet but better .
I have a gut feeling this boy will have an accident book the size of the Yellow Pages