Calico
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Yesterday:
I took one of my recently-adopted cats to the vet for a re-check appointment, to see if his ear infection had cleared up. I administered eardrops to this sweetie for 30 days straight (not much fun for either of us, I can tell you)!
The vet said the cat's ear looked "amazing" and all the infection is gone. He also proclaimed "job well done" on my part (pats self on back just a little bit). I couldn't have done it without the cooperation of my feline patient, and I'm thrilled the drops worked. If they hadn't, we were potentially looking at a surgical consult with a specialist, due to his extremely stenotic ear canal (which predates his adoption). Fortunately the drops reduced the swelling of the ear canal dramatically, so that alone made the last 30 days of cat-wrangling worth it in my opinion.
The plan going forward is once-weekly administration of prophylactic ear cleaning stuff (Zymox). That beats the daily routine for sure! The vet uses the stuff on his own cat, so I'm hopeful it will keep any further infections at bay. Users on Amazon and in the Reddit cat forum all rave about this stuff, so I'm optimistic.
All fingers and paws crossed.....
I took one of my recently-adopted cats to the vet for a re-check appointment, to see if his ear infection had cleared up. I administered eardrops to this sweetie for 30 days straight (not much fun for either of us, I can tell you)!
The vet said the cat's ear looked "amazing" and all the infection is gone. He also proclaimed "job well done" on my part (pats self on back just a little bit). I couldn't have done it without the cooperation of my feline patient, and I'm thrilled the drops worked. If they hadn't, we were potentially looking at a surgical consult with a specialist, due to his extremely stenotic ear canal (which predates his adoption). Fortunately the drops reduced the swelling of the ear canal dramatically, so that alone made the last 30 days of cat-wrangling worth it in my opinion.
The plan going forward is once-weekly administration of prophylactic ear cleaning stuff (Zymox). That beats the daily routine for sure! The vet uses the stuff on his own cat, so I'm hopeful it will keep any further infections at bay. Users on Amazon and in the Reddit cat forum all rave about this stuff, so I'm optimistic.
All fingers and paws crossed.....