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Female Wiccan Heretic!!
Last week a customer brought a CUTE little kitten into my store. She told me that she has been slowly trapping and neutering the ferals in her neighborhood and had decided to keep this little kitten for herself. Then she added that there was another kitten she had been unable to catch, and he had "a little eye infection", so she didn't know what to do with him if she could catch him. It's kitten season and the shelters and rescues are overrun.
Sooo, I said "Well, I have some extra eye meds from the last kitten eye infection I treated, if you catch him bring him to me!" There's an incredible low cost spay/neuter clinic in the area, and the low cost vaccine clinic is so familiar with me by now that they almost never charge me for any vaccines except Rabies, so it's easy for me to get a kitten vaccinated, fixed, and ready to adopt out. Then, she caught him and brought him in yesterday. I took one look and knew that it wasn't just a little infection. In fact, at first I thought the eye had ruptured.
I had no idea what I was going to do...I don't mind putting money into my fosters, but an enucleation (eye removal) is way out of my budget...if one of my animals needed it I would have to use care credit or something. I just couldn't justify spending that on a foster. Still...what was I going to do, turn him down? LoL. So today we went to the vet, and my wonderful, amazing vet offered to perform the surgery for free once the infection is healed!
The eye is not ruptured, it is microphthalmic (tiny eyeball), and because it's so tiny the eyelids have turned in and are rubbing on the eye when he blinks. Ouchie.
Here is Captain Jack Sparrow. He would like everyone to know what he is not a cuddly, he is a FEROCIOUS PIRATE, and he puts on a big show of hissing and spitting...until you pick him up, at which point he melts. He's going to be a great cat.
Sooo, I said "Well, I have some extra eye meds from the last kitten eye infection I treated, if you catch him bring him to me!" There's an incredible low cost spay/neuter clinic in the area, and the low cost vaccine clinic is so familiar with me by now that they almost never charge me for any vaccines except Rabies, so it's easy for me to get a kitten vaccinated, fixed, and ready to adopt out. Then, she caught him and brought him in yesterday. I took one look and knew that it wasn't just a little infection. In fact, at first I thought the eye had ruptured.
I had no idea what I was going to do...I don't mind putting money into my fosters, but an enucleation (eye removal) is way out of my budget...if one of my animals needed it I would have to use care credit or something. I just couldn't justify spending that on a foster. Still...what was I going to do, turn him down? LoL. So today we went to the vet, and my wonderful, amazing vet offered to perform the surgery for free once the infection is healed!
The eye is not ruptured, it is microphthalmic (tiny eyeball), and because it's so tiny the eyelids have turned in and are rubbing on the eye when he blinks. Ouchie.
Here is Captain Jack Sparrow. He would like everyone to know what he is not a cuddly, he is a FEROCIOUS PIRATE, and he puts on a big show of hissing and spitting...until you pick him up, at which point he melts. He's going to be a great cat.
