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If it is viral conjunctivitis, that can take several days to get better. Bacterial infection will respond to the antibiotic; that can also take a few days. The only thing I would worry about is Chlamydia. I don’t know how well your ointment covers that. Might be worth a call to your vet.

Although some human diabetes can be caused by diet, I don’t believe this is the case in cats. And of course all cats do well on a low carbohydrate diet, that’s what they would get in the wild. My cat has diabetes. She gets an insulin shot twice a day. The shots are very easy to give and the cat...

@rosegold I am so sorry about your Chai! She was such a pretty cat. FIP is a cruel disease. :(

I understand your fear. I lost a cat to FIP and it’s an experience I do not want to repeat. The thing about FIP, though, is that you can’t predict it. You are right that a lot of cats are positive for coronavirus and the mutation to FIP is unpredictable. I don’t think there are even any tests...

Thank you for posting the checklists, @LTS3. I try to have everything ready by the beginning of the summer. I make a box to take with us if we have to leave home. I thought all shelters accepted animals after the Hurricane Rita disaster (when people didn’t go to shelters because they didn’t...

Hi and welcome to the forum! Great photos! I think I know what you are talking about. At 4 o’clock in the left picture and 8 o’clock in the right picture, yes? I don’t know what they are but I’ve seen them in cats’ eyes before. I think they are a normal anatomical structure. Blood vessels...

Bless you for adopting these cats. I have a paraplegic cat. He wears a diaper because he has no bowel or bladder control. He has no idea there’s anything wrong with him and he’s the happiest guy!

Could be allergies. Has she been tried on antihistamines?

It might be the result of an injury. it doesn’t look inflamed at this point, so whatever it is is probably well-healed and the cat may have good vision in that eye. My Armani’s eye looks worse and his vision (checked by ophthalmology) is excellent. Do show the photo to a vet, they have the...

I don’t think it’s anything fatal but he does need a vet if it’s been going on for a while. Obviously vaseline isn’t cutting it. Good luck and let us know what happens.

Yay, Zyngi the ginger says says concatulations! And, yes, a name, please.

Does he still have the feeding tube?

That’s a pretty good thing. Just make sure you don’t let the abscess close up again. Warm compresses a couple of times a day for as long as she’ll let you keep them there should do it.

Congratulations on your new kittens! And kudos to you for adopting two. Kittens should come in pairs. To give ointment to cats, put about a ¼” of the ointment on the ball of your right index finger. Hold the eye open with your left hand and apply the ointment to the eyeball (or the red, swollen...

I can only tell you what I did. I moved with my two cats 3 times, from a student apartment, to a large apartment with a 3 story house to run around in, back to student housing and to another house. They could have stayed with my mother but they were my cats and my home was their home.