Battle Wounds For Mayhem The Deaf Cat

Mayhem the Cat was outside last night (we keep her on a 25-foot leash, because we won't want her to wander out on the street and not hear an approaching car or steamroller) when another cat invaded her turf. Harsh feline words were exchanged, and at the sounds of the fight we rushed out and quickly brought Mayhem back in.

Then we took her into the bathroom and wiped blood out of her eye.

So Mayhem paid a midnight visit to the 24-hour vet's office with a clawed face and a scratched eyeball. She was on her best behavior, alternating between lying in her carrier looking sad and wandering around the examination room. They took her away for a bit to put some fluorescent dye in her eye to see the full extent of the damage, and to shave part of her forehead to check for other possible wounds.

Anyway, Mayhem is gonna be fine. We have to put gook directly onto her eyeball three times a day, which she looooooooooves. And we have to squirt pain medicine into her mouth once a day with these handy syringes. But we won't have a deaf AND half-blind cat. She's not quite back to her lively, noisy, bratty self yet, but as of this afternoon she started purring again.

Oh yeah...and she has that fashionable funnel thing that goes over her head to keep her from scratching at her wounds. I'd take a picture to post here, but even a cat deserves some small measure of dignity.