Hello - this is my first post here, apologies if I missed an intro thread or am in the wrong area. We just need help with our cat!!!
Our cat will vigorously (almost violently) clean her left eyelid / eye area to the point she recently scratched her cornea. Her third eyelid was swollen shut. We took her to the vet and have been medicating the eye and it is almost fully healed. She had been wearing a plastic cone collar to keep from scratching / agitating the area - on the vet's recommendation we removed the collar tonight and she almost immediately began to vigorously clean the left eyelid / eye area and was on the way to hurting herself again.
She has done this sort of cleaning in the past - you can actually hear her doing it (it makes a sort of scratching sound) but never to this recent level.
Our vet doesn't seem to understand why she would be behaving this way. Has anyone experienced a similar problem / know of any solutions (aside from never taking off the plastic cone, which I don't think she'd like very much!). Thank you!
Our cat will vigorously (almost violently) clean her left eyelid / eye area to the point she recently scratched her cornea. Her third eyelid was swollen shut. We took her to the vet and have been medicating the eye and it is almost fully healed. She had been wearing a plastic cone collar to keep from scratching / agitating the area - on the vet's recommendation we removed the collar tonight and she almost immediately began to vigorously clean the left eyelid / eye area and was on the way to hurting herself again.
She has done this sort of cleaning in the past - you can actually hear her doing it (it makes a sort of scratching sound) but never to this recent level.
Our vet doesn't seem to understand why she would be behaving this way. Has anyone experienced a similar problem / know of any solutions (aside from never taking off the plastic cone, which I don't think she'd like very much!). Thank you!