Billy's eye is a bit watery , and he's not opening it all the way. He's definitely going to the vet in the morning if it doesn't look better - but if its just a bit of dust or something is there a way I can help him get it out?
Yeah, just saline solution... if you don't have any, vets usually have small bottles and maybe would give one to you to keep around... as far as eye goopies: my cat gets the "regular" eye goopies, ya know a little crusty after sleeping and the occasional white glop (I usually gently wipe them away if he doesnt get to them).... when your cat's got a serious infection it will usually be very thick goop with a green or yellow color and there would be quite a good amount of it... as far as I know, cats aren't subject to the pink eye virus that humans get (I *think* pigs are the only non-humans that we can get it from/give it to.... possibly poultry too? OK, farm kids, time to chime in here haha), but I'm quite prone to pink eye and the goop that comes with it is what bad kitty eye goop would look like, haha, it was just a reference point... to me it sounds like your cat just had some minor irritation, but if I was going away without Oliver and his eye still looked bad tomorrow morning, I'd take him in just to be sure... again, would rather pay to be safe....Originally Posted by Sandtigress
This was saline solution and not contact solution, correct? I wear contacts, but I don't keep plain saline solution around...maybe I should. It would be useful if I got something in my eye too.
Billy's a lilac-point, so his color is a sort of greyish-pink around his face. He's had an eye infection before for sure, but sometimes his eye will look a tiny bit pink around it, and I can't tell if its a problem or not. He had some white goopy in his eye his morning, but he's always got goopies (usually dark, but I think the white stuff darkens as it gets older). The vet says the eye goopies are normal, at least the dark ones.