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Hi everyone. I'm posting this to share my experience with my cat and her eye problems. I got Ditter, my cat, from a shelter in 2007. She was anywhere between 1-3 years old. I had 3 other adult cats at home. Ditter seemed okay for a good number of years and then she developed eye problems, I would guess around 2011-2012. With her 1st visit with the vet (for this problem) it was found there was an ulcer on her eye. The doctor treated her there, as did I afterwards at home. The doctor had taken a culture. Her eyes cleared up.....for the time being. Then it started happening on a regular basis. The vet said she had Herpes of the eye. From then on, it seemed that as soon as it would start to get better, then a flare up would start. She dealt with this for 2-3 years on a constant basis. It is said that the herpes is contagious to other cats. I am not dismissing that in the least. My other cats, however, are fine, even today. I was living in another state away from my family and where I grew up.
In early 2014, I wanted to move back so my brother let me and the kitties stay at his house. I met someone soon after. Our relationship was (and is) a great one....so I moved in with him late 2014. My poor cat was still dealing with the eye issues on a continual basis, and after I moved in with the BF, I had to take her to a new vet within days. Then something strange happened. After this flare up, all the way to today, she hasn't had a single eye issue. Thinking back, I can only think of one thing that changed in her life, besides the moves. The cat litter. My BF has 2 cats of his own. The big "change" was that I had been a huge fan of "scoop away" cat litter. I used this continually up until the time of the final move. My BF uses "World's Best Cat Litter". I have come to the conclusion that this was the culprit. She went from eye problem to eye problem continually for all that time, where just when it seemed she'd be getting over it, and BAM, it would start all over. Now she hasn't had a problem since Nov 2014. It is now almost April 2016. If your cat is dealing with the same problem, try changing the cat litter. It is interesting to note, which I didn't realize then, was that the years prior to this problem, I had been using clay litter. But I trusted my vet when he gave his diagnosis, never thinking it was the litter, as the symptoms didn't occur immediately after the change from clay to scoop away. When I questioned how could she get this, she's an indoor cat and no one else has it, I was told "she may have caught it from another cat if yours was in a window and another cat from outside came up to her". Well, anyway, do the change if you are having problems. Try anything except the standard scooping kind. Stay away from those that are perfumed. I've had great success with "the worlds greatest cat litter" but I think the clay is okay too.
In early 2014, I wanted to move back so my brother let me and the kitties stay at his house. I met someone soon after. Our relationship was (and is) a great one....so I moved in with him late 2014. My poor cat was still dealing with the eye issues on a continual basis, and after I moved in with the BF, I had to take her to a new vet within days. Then something strange happened. After this flare up, all the way to today, she hasn't had a single eye issue. Thinking back, I can only think of one thing that changed in her life, besides the moves. The cat litter. My BF has 2 cats of his own. The big "change" was that I had been a huge fan of "scoop away" cat litter. I used this continually up until the time of the final move. My BF uses "World's Best Cat Litter". I have come to the conclusion that this was the culprit. She went from eye problem to eye problem continually for all that time, where just when it seemed she'd be getting over it, and BAM, it would start all over. Now she hasn't had a problem since Nov 2014. It is now almost April 2016. If your cat is dealing with the same problem, try changing the cat litter. It is interesting to note, which I didn't realize then, was that the years prior to this problem, I had been using clay litter. But I trusted my vet when he gave his diagnosis, never thinking it was the litter, as the symptoms didn't occur immediately after the change from clay to scoop away. When I questioned how could she get this, she's an indoor cat and no one else has it, I was told "she may have caught it from another cat if yours was in a window and another cat from outside came up to her". Well, anyway, do the change if you are having problems. Try anything except the standard scooping kind. Stay away from those that are perfumed. I've had great success with "the worlds greatest cat litter" but I think the clay is okay too.
