We have a 6-week-old kitten (named Elsa, since she looks like a little lion) who was rescued from a feral colony at 1 week when her mother was trapped during a trap-neuter-release program initiated by a friend of mine. We've had her since 3 weeks old, and she's grown up so quickly, going from formula and the syringe to dry food within one week.
Anyway, she is eating, drinking and evacuating well, growing like a weed, weighs almost 2 pounds, is active, alert and happy, but something is up with her right eye.
It is not swollen at all and has no evidence of infection (like white or green pus or discharge), it just seems to be very runny. It looks like the normal cat eye goop that ends up in the corners of all my other cats' eyes as little crusties, but just lots more, and just in the one eye. She doesn't fuss with it or scratch at it, and she can see just fine on that side of her head. I had been putting antibiotic drops in several times a day for over a week, and it didn't seem to help, so I stopped, and nothing changed.
She's going to the vet in a couple of weeks - do you think this is something that can wait until then, or does it seem like more of an emergency? My feeling is that it can wait since everything else is OK and it doesn't seem infected.
Anyway, she is eating, drinking and evacuating well, growing like a weed, weighs almost 2 pounds, is active, alert and happy, but something is up with her right eye.
It is not swollen at all and has no evidence of infection (like white or green pus or discharge), it just seems to be very runny. It looks like the normal cat eye goop that ends up in the corners of all my other cats' eyes as little crusties, but just lots more, and just in the one eye. She doesn't fuss with it or scratch at it, and she can see just fine on that side of her head. I had been putting antibiotic drops in several times a day for over a week, and it didn't seem to help, so I stopped, and nothing changed.
She's going to the vet in a couple of weeks - do you think this is something that can wait until then, or does it seem like more of an emergency? My feeling is that it can wait since everything else is OK and it doesn't seem infected.