Hi,
The kittens were 7 weeks old on Monday. They are all doing well - a very lively bunch and into everything at the moment.
Unfortunately Ziggy still has a bad eye (has worsened since the pics), it started about 4 weeks ago and since then we've been to the vets 4 times with him. He's had 3 different types of eye antibiotics, oral antibiotics, had swabs taken and yesterday he had the 1st of his flu jabs, which the vet said may help, but unlikely, so looks likely he'll lose that eye. I'm so upset, this seems so unfair as to why this has happened. The only thing we can think of is that when the kittens were coming upto 2 weeks old Pixie (mum) was unwell, hardly feeding the kittens, sneezing, diarreah etc... the vet thinks she may have had a mild form of cat flu and passed it onto Ziggy. Vet also said that we are lucky that he doesn't have it in both eyes and that none of the other kittens are affected (they only had slighly watery eyes but cleared up quickly). We will be getting Pixie vacinated asap also. We will probably be keeping Ziggy now, we would of course like to keep them all but already have 4 cats but after everything he, and we have been through we're pretty sure he's a keeper. It's just such a shame that the eye cannot be rescued, he's such a pretty little thing!
Anyway here are the pics;
The kittens were 7 weeks old on Monday. They are all doing well - a very lively bunch and into everything at the moment.
Unfortunately Ziggy still has a bad eye (has worsened since the pics), it started about 4 weeks ago and since then we've been to the vets 4 times with him. He's had 3 different types of eye antibiotics, oral antibiotics, had swabs taken and yesterday he had the 1st of his flu jabs, which the vet said may help, but unlikely, so looks likely he'll lose that eye. I'm so upset, this seems so unfair as to why this has happened. The only thing we can think of is that when the kittens were coming upto 2 weeks old Pixie (mum) was unwell, hardly feeding the kittens, sneezing, diarreah etc... the vet thinks she may have had a mild form of cat flu and passed it onto Ziggy. Vet also said that we are lucky that he doesn't have it in both eyes and that none of the other kittens are affected (they only had slighly watery eyes but cleared up quickly). We will be getting Pixie vacinated asap also. We will probably be keeping Ziggy now, we would of course like to keep them all but already have 4 cats but after everything he, and we have been through we're pretty sure he's a keeper. It's just such a shame that the eye cannot be rescued, he's such a pretty little thing!
Anyway here are the pics;