This is a sad but true story of my cat, Pyewacket. He used up 7 of his 9 lives this past Saturday. Pyewacket is an awesome cat. We got him about 5 years ago from a friend's farm in Seymour. He has never been a very large cat - he weighs not more than 10 lbs. His claim to fame is his squirrel-sized tail. Anyway, this cat lives to get out of the house. My friend Rick picked me up to go to see a local band called "Haze". To make a long story short, Pyewacket ran out the door not to be seen again until early Sunday morning.
About 7:30 am Sunday, I let Pye in the house. Kirsten (my daughter) was also up and we both noticed that his left eye was kind of puffy. I told him he was a "Bad Kitty" and he lurked off to bed. We all headed off to a friend's house in Shiocton for a cook-out. When we returned around 8:30 pm that evening, Pye's eye was really gross. His eye would not close because of all the (what I thought was) infection built up over the eye. So, of course, I panicked and called my friend's husband. My friend , Dana, answered the phone when I called at 11:00 pm. I have to tell you that I take my cat to a cheap vet and not to my friend Dana's husband (who is not a cheap vet). I really like Dave (the good vet). He has been over to my house and knows my cat. Well, Pyewacket looked pretty bad but we thought we'd wait until the next day and if his eye still looked bad I'd bring him in to have Dave take a look.
On Monday I took the cat in to see Dave. It was pretty bad news - Dave said the eye would have to be removed. Pyewacket had either gotten into a fight or his eye had definitely been exposed to something invasive. The options were to have the surgery to remove the eye or put Pyewacket to sleep. Seeing as money is no object to me (yeah, right!) I went with the "cost is not a factor" approach. When Dave went in to do the surgery, he found that Pye's iris and pupil were still intact. He ended up sewing the inner eyelid to the top of his outer lid. This would give the cornea time to heal.
The picture you see is after his surgery. When the stitches came out, Pyewacket's eye is sort of cloudy. He might not be able to see out of it - we are still waiting to see about if he has any sight in that eye. At least his eye is still there. His pupil seems to be dilating, but when you look at him, his eye is definitely "off". I think he has some kind of sight in it.
The moral of the story is: If you have a cat - do not let him outside! You have no idea what sort of animals they are exposed to. As a domestic cat, they are totally out of their element if they get out of the house. You need to protect them as their are so many bad things they can run into.
I just hope my cat, Pyewacket, will be okay! There is still a 50/50 chance that he will have to have his eye removed.
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