Feline Friday: I Approve

Aos
Hello, I am Aos, and I approve of presents with ribbon.
Lots of ribbon.


Because a few people have asked recently. Michael and I adopted Windigo and Aos at the same time, they are brothers. They both had really bad upper respiratory infections, so bad that the shelter told us if they died in 2 weeks they would replace them for free or refund us. They survived with lots of pampering of course, but both get reoccurring viral eye infections, hence why they always seem to have runny eyes. It is worse in winter.

They don’t seem to notice too much, every once and awhile it gets particularly bad and mucus seals one of their eyes shut. They have gotten very tolerant of me cleaning their “gookies” away with a warm washcloth (Windigo more tolerant the Aos as it is worse in him.)

One Comment

  1. Posted Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 5:31 pm | Permalink

    Our older cat, Casey, is the same way. He had a respiratory infection when we got him. In cats, it can be a recombinant virus that can recur with no exposure (like the shingles virus in humans). It always seems to affect his eyes the worst, although sometimes he’ll have a full out cold that has him stuffed up and sneezing for a week, poor baby.