Yes, her mother did a good job up until whatever it was that happened. They look after their kittens so well, even if the mothers are skin and bone themselves. Either disease or an accident, I'm sure, it would be very unlikely that the kittens were just abandoned. Cilla's brother or sister was grey and white, just like one of my brother's cats, and Cilla is probably a niece or cousin to them; the mother of my brother's pair was the matriarch of the stray cat colony, a scraggly self-assured pirate and terror of the whole street, and had several litters brought up wild before she went into retirement as a cosy house cat (spayed, of course).
Cilla's gummy eye was some sort of infection which cleared up very quickly with antibiotics. I'm not concerned that there might be any lasting damage, and I'm trying to think of a way of testing her vision in one eye... with a bird or horse you could wave something on one side of its head and see if there was any reaction, but cats have forward-facing eyes--just imagine the ruckus if we tried putting an eyepatch on her!
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Date: 2008-01-12 05:03 am (UTC)Cilla's gummy eye was some sort of infection which cleared up very quickly with antibiotics. I'm not concerned that there might be any lasting damage, and I'm trying to think of a way of testing her vision in one eye... with a bird or horse you could wave something on one side of its head and see if there was any reaction, but cats have forward-facing eyes--just imagine the ruckus if we tried putting an eyepatch on her!