Toaster gave us a scare tonight: foxtails

gatinha

TCS Member
Thread starter
Young Cat
Joined
Dec 13, 2004
Messages
32
Purraise
0
Location
Sacramento, CA
Well, so we had our first visit to the ER with the cats. While I was out, my husband said that Toaster walked into his room with his left eye shut and was trying to scratch at his eye. He called me to get the vet's number (it was 9:30 pm), but had to go to the emergency service. Long story short, we both took Toaster in and he had a big piece of foxtail in his left eye. By the time we got to the vet, he actually had opened his eye, but it did look half closed and red. The vet almost missed it, as it was embedded all the way in the top back portion of the eye.

Tomorrow I'm going to walk around the yard and locate these foxtails! Though it could be in the neighbor's yard, as he's taken to jumping the fence sometimes when I'm not monitoring him.

Anyway, this gave me a scare because I asked the vet what would have happened if we hadn't found this and he said it would get infected and he could have lost his eye!
 
Top