Went to the vet ER tonight. ..for an eye booger

daannii@lemmy.world · 6 days

So yesterday my 2 cats got in a fight. I got the worst of it.

Long story short. I checked both cats over after the incident and all the blood was mine.

Black cat, Noir, had a little scratched spot on nose and near left eye but looked fine.

This morning I wake up and notice he’s got, what I thought, was some eye goo in his left eye.

As the day goes on into the evening, I notice it’s still there.

I get a qtip and wet the end and try to catch it to pull it out.

I notice at this point it doesn’t look like goo but like the bottom of the eye is cut. Or maybe the extra eye membrane.

It really looked like that.

Now mind you he’s been normal all day and not been rubbing his eye or anything. No drainage or redness but I kinda panicked thinking. “How did I miss this eye injury yesterday when I checked him over!?!”

So I rush him to the ER vet. Cause it literally looks like a cut into his eye with a flap/gash.

We wait like 1.5 hours. While in the exam room I noticed he’s got a big eye booger in the corner of his eye. Dried. Dark. I wipe it off.

A moment later I’m like. Hey. Hold on.

I check his eye again and the “gash” is gone.

It actually was eye goo.

Even the guy who first saw him agreed it looked like a cut.

But I called him over and was like. Yeah. So I think it actually was a booger.

He looked over Noir and agreed. The eye was fine.

Booger.

Flipping eye booger.

Almost cost me $200.

teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 4 days

200 for emergency is cheap.

kindnesskills@literature.cafe · 6 days

Better safe than sorry, or as in this case: both safe and sorry!

If you were bit at all you also need to go to emergency care for a shot and taking care of the wound. Cat bites are really nasty, like losing a limb or worse. They heal quickly on the surface so it may look fine, but they go deep and push a lot of nasty bacteria that gets trapped under the surface healing.

The next time, throw a glass of water into the fight or slam some pot lids together to make a scary noise to interrupt the fight. Don’t put your hands in between them. Use a broom or some other barrier if you absolutely want to get physical with it.

And in the longer run, make sure your cats are both neutered to make them less fighty, and that they have someplace to retreat to avoid a fight (like high shelves in every room with an entry way on both ends, pull the couch and other furniture out so theres always always a differentexit from where they entered). Give them multiple high value places like beds, toys, water, food, scratching posts and litter boxes far apart from each other so they don’t need to fight over resources. Especially look these things over for spots where they get into conflict.

Good luck!

Edit: perhaps you know all this already…but better safe than sorry, lol! Maybe someone else reading doesn’t know.