Conference misery::feline

    I assume the vet's is open by now....please let us know how
    CHubs does.  thx.
    

    Could it be something imbedded into his eye?  It doesn't seem with
    his closing and opening his eye that it would stay permanently in
    the center if it wasn't imbedded. Could it be a bad scratch and that
    is flesh you are looking at.
    
    HE NEEDs TO GO TO THE **VET** IMMEDIATELY.  This is no doubt causing a 
    great deal of discomfort. Put yourself in his place.
    
    Don't forget to introduce your new kitties.
    
    Barbara
    
    

    Sounds like the eye has been scratched/clawed.......
    
    A trip to the vet is needed to save the eye......infection
    possibly will set in, causing eye loss.

    After writing this note the other day, I patiently waited for the
    vet to open, then called.  The receptionist suggested that any problem
    with eyes should always be checked, which I agreed with, especially 
    after scratching my eye this summer.....  Chubs appointment was set
    for 3PM so I called my husband to let him know.  He said Chubs' eye was
    perfect.  No scratch, no gunk.  
    
    I called the vet back, postponed his visit and then checked on Chubs
    right after work.  Sure enough, both eyes looked perfect.  We think he
    may have had a piece of cat hair in his eye but it seems strange that
    it stayed there all night long.  He is going to be examined when he
    goes in on Friday for his new doo.

    Actually, it's customary for the cat to recover in the waiting
    room;  Chubs doesn't seem to have his technique quite up to
    snuff yet :-)
    

    Well, Chubs is off to the vets again tonight to have his squinty eyes
    checked out.  We've been putting medicine in twice a day because one of
    his eyes were red last week.  They don't seem to be getting better.  In
    fact, when I got home from work last night, his eyes half closed.  The
    poor thing, he looked so stoned!  

    He's also been sneezing up a storm the last few days and now Lea seems
    to have the sniffles as well.  Sounds like we've got an upper
    respiratory problem in the works here.  I'm beginning to think that
    Chubs has a thing for his vet.  This is the third visit in three weeks!

    If Chubs is sneezing and having conjunctivitis, you may want to
    separate him from the other two cats until he is over it.  Otherwise
    you will end up with three cats on medication (tougher on the budget).
    URI's are passed by airborne viruses.  Isolation will prevent them from
    spreading to the other cats.
    
    Jo

    Isolation is probably too late at this point, no?
    

    My vet said we'd probably need medication for all three.  This is going
    to be an interesting evening, especially if we have to pill the new
    cats!  Before anyone asks, I've done my fair share of popping pills
    down cats so I don't need any tips.  :^)  I have to be extra careful
    not to scare them.  It's bad enough that Chubs is getting his eye
    medicine twice a day.  He doesn't like it, but he tolerates it.  He
    thinks he is invisible when he hides under the dining room chairs each
    morning.  Hey, that's the first place I look.  He may be smart, but
    he's not *that* smart, yet. :^)

    It is not too late to isolate, especially since they can continue to
    pass URI's back and forth after one recovers.
    
    Jo

    And speaking of eyes...
    
    Last night Alexandra decided to cozy up to Mom (this is unusual...in
    most cases she is DADDY's little girl), when I noticed that her right
    eye was all watery - really leaky, running down her little nose.  I
    took a wet paper towel, and gently wiped it away.  There has been no
    recurrance.
    
    What could cause something like this?  Could something be wrong?
    
    K.C.

    Has she been hanging around my Kelsey, K.C.??  He, too, has a watery
    right eye, has had it for the past few days.
    
    There are definitely URI's running amuk now.  I have been putting
    Terramycin ointment in Kelsey's eye since the watering began. 
    Terramycin is a great antibiotic for conjunctivitis; however, it does
    have a tendency to make the eye appear redder and worse than it actually
    is.
    
    Is Alexandra sneezing?  Kelsey is, though not a lot.  I am being extra
    careful now with everyone right now.
    
    Of course I will call the vet if things don't improve.  I always do the
    Terramycin for a week, 3X a day, and then wait a few days after the
    last application to judge it's effectiveness.  Eye problems must be
    treated cautiously, because if the cat has a scratch or abrasion on the
    eye anything containing a steroid can be very harmful and cause more
    damage.  Terramycin does not contain a steroid.
    
    -Roberta
     

It could have just been a watery eye.  Who knows!  Maybe that's why she came
to you...it's Mommy's job to wipe up the messes!!  Check the white part of her
eye...if it's pinkish, watch it carefully.  If it's not, and she doesn't
start sneezing, then she just had a piece of fur or something irritating her.

It's always sumthin, eh??

Mar

    Well, she's ALWAYS just a tad sneezy (we sometimes even call her
    Sneezy), but only a teensy bit...and last night no more than usual
    (actually, a little LESS.  I can't recall a single sneeze).
    
    The white of her eye, I THINK was ok.  I'll remember to look.
    
    (It was funny...the very first thing after wiping her eye, my hub said,
    "Tomorrow, write about this to the FELINERs!  THEY'LL know what's
    wrong!")
    
    K.C.

    Chubs' eyes are better, but now Zelda has a pinkish left eye.  Lea,
    Chubs and Zelda are all sneezing up a storm.  We were given medication
    for all three cats.  Chubs and Zelda are so kind, they just opened
    their mouth and in went the pill.  Lea, on the other hand, was
    obnoxious at the vets with her Siamese hisses and growls.  Chubs was
    watching her with this disgusted look on his face.  Hope he didn't
    learn any new tricks from her. :^)  Lea nearly ripped my hand off last
    night on the 9th attempt at trying to pill her.  Even wrapped in a
    towel, she still managed to put up a fight.  I think we'll use the
    "pill broken into small pieces and hidden in the food" routine tonight
    for the wench!  Is there a note in here on obnoxious cats?!  :^)

    Kelsey's whites are pink... and when I went home for lunch his left eye
    was running too :^(.  I decided to start him on Amoxi since we have
    some pills in the house.  He is also obnoxious to pill.
    
    'Tis the season for URI's.  This all started with the arrival of the
    dogs too!!  Stress will do it every time.
    

    My hub's home (flu), so when he called me, I asked him to check his
    beloved "daughter".
    
    He says that Alex's eye is fine.  No pink.  No more runny.  And HE is
    sneezing more than SHE is right now...he says that she hasn't sneezed a
    single sneeze all day that he can tell.
    
    Be careful about giving pills.  When we had to give Tiki some pills, we
    would both be in on it.  I would sit on him (I'm barely exaggerating...
    he was 20 lbs., and put up one HECK of a fight!) and Leigh would SHOVE
    the pill in his mouth, HOLD his mouth closed, and RUB, RUB, RUB his
    throat 'til he thought he could feel something going down.  As soon as
    we let him go, Tiki would stand a few feet away from us, and *PTOOEY*
    ...the pill would go flying across the room - whole!  (Over the course
    of time we'd find pills hidden EVERYWHERE...and we're STILL finding the
    occasional one!)
    
    K.C.