Popeye Is Home And Doing Well!

About his eyes, the one which looked like it could be saved was internally damaged, and if it was left as it is it could have caused him his life! And the one which looked bad externally was actually quite good on the inside. His eyes actually looked worse before surgery than in the first photo I sent you but I don’t have a photo.

He’s doing really well right now, he can eat on his own but has complications with drinking.�As you know he can’t see and so can’t estimate the level of the water in the water bowl, he tries to drink but gives up after�getting�water on his nose. We have to give him water by syringe, but we don’t know how thirsty he actually is, he’s sleeping a lot and hasn’t drank much at all today. He’ll drink a little and stop and when we try to give him more he turns away. Do you have any suggestions? I was thinking maybe get those water bottles but I don’t know how to get him to learn to drink from it.

Will update you photos of his post surgery soon, the one who took the photos is away.

Actually we picked up his mom who we suspect had hot water splashed on her, her skin was burnt but has already healed and her fur has grown back. She was pregnant at the time and had 4 kittens but only 2 survived. They were still-born. Both kittens did not have any complications. One of the kitten is still with us but the other we believe has been adopted, she was a really friendly kitten.

Popeye is one of the 2nd litter, we weren’t sure when to spay their mom and she became pregnant again and gave birth to the 2nd litter. We think that his eyes may have been infected when he was a few weeks old. We didn’t disturb the kittens until they started to roam. All of them always had their eyes closed and have discharge, we tried to clean with saline solution and have brought them to other 2 other vets.

The first one we brought to I believe has never encountered this before and thought that it’s just external irritation. He gave an eye cream but there was no effect and we noticed their eyes were not how eyes with discharge normally were. I don’t know if this is true or not, but I get the feeling that the 2nd vet we brought to did not have the means or know-how to treat such a condition and needed to reduce the swelling before they can operate, they gave some liquid medicine and said to bring him back when the medicine finished. His treatment was delayed for a whole month and his eyes kept getting worse and worse even with the medicine because he keeps scratching them, it’s itchy. Until now, the vet which Dr Chan recommended immediately took him in, if only I knew to go there the first time…

His mom was spayed on the same day of his surgery by another vet, and not pregnant. I think she knows that there’s too many cats in the house. We have had a stray who rejected males when she was in heat, there wasn’t enough food to go around. She’s been spayed too.