Kitty Dramah! (oh Noez!)

So, Foot and Ula have been getting slowly better since their little nose bump thing. Foot still chases Ula, but the frequnecy is way down, and Ula has started to come out and hang with me in the living room in the evening (at least until Foot decides to give chase again, but it takes her a couple of hours now rather than a couple of minutes).

They're even willingly eating side by side, although I still have to lock Ula in the bedroom with ehr share after the initial feeding because Foot is a little piglet and will eat it all if I don't.

So, anyway, last night, Foot did her usual 'chase Ula under the bed, swipe my paw at her a few times, then go find something else to do' thing. No hissing or growling from anyone, just the chase, swipe, done.

So, it was to my horror to see Foot walk back out into the living room three minutes later with blood all around her eye!.

I was a good mommy and didn't totally freak out, but I did get a washcloth and try to dab the blood off and see where the damage was. Ula must have tagged her good, because it bled for about ten minutes, but other than the blood itself, I couldn't find anything wrong. I decided to leave it alone until morning and let it dry so that I wasn't trying to tell fresh blood from actual wound. Foot wasn't showing signs of pain or irrtation with her sight, and she was keeping the eye open and using it so I figured that was the best course of action.

By this morning, Foot had washed the rest of the blood off. Other than a slightly pink-hued nictating membrane, her eye looks fine. I can't even find where Ula tagged her, her eye is tracking and dialating fine, and there's no swelling anywhere. She was a lot more 'civil' to Ula this morning, though.

I did leave a message with the vet about what had happened, asking if they thought I should bring her in anyway. If they say yes, I will. In the meantime, I had to go to work, but once I get home, I'm going to take another look and then keep an eagle eye on it for the next several days. Thank goodness I'm taking some time off; I'll be able to rush Foot in if I have to.

ETA: The vet is offering to see her, which I take as a 'It's not serious, but you probably should bring her in anyway', so making an appointment for this afternoon.

Update on Foot's eye

So I took her in at 4:30.

Doctor says her eye is fine--couldn't find any damage to it at all, and was hard pressed to find a wound anyplace else. It looks like Ula just tagged the fleshy part of Foot's under eyelid and managed to hit near a main vessel. Looks clean, though. No swelling.

Doc went ahead and gave me some drops Tobramycin Ophthalmic solution, 3 times daily, and then some Clavamox drops to put in her food during breakfast and dinner, just to make sure.

The 'worst' news was that she told me to take Foot off moist food and keep her strictly to dry for now on. She's showing signs of gingivitis already (!) and the dry will help with that.

Other than that though, Foot is okay if a bit subdued. She let Ula greet her and went and hid in the bedroom after following Ula into the crate (maybe Ula was whosing her it wasn't that bad? I dunno). Right now they're seperated so that Ula doesn't get into Foot's spiked food, and Foot doesn't get into Ula's moist food.

I R ON VACASION!!!

Plans:

1) Sleep in until 10 every morning.
2) Maybe give the apartment a really good clean down
3) Art
4) WoW if there are any takers
5) Restaurant?
6) Game works
7) Swimming
8) Be a blob.
9) Possibly stay up late every night. Provided my body doesn't shut down on its own.

Short version:

I'm going to pretend I'm a writer/artist that gets paid to be such things for five days. :)
(Actually, it;s paid time off...so I will be getting paid. Imagine that! Lol).

Anyway, next five days would be a good time to snag me for short term stuff anyway.