Lucie’s story
Lucie must’ve been
an adorable kitten.
She’s black and
white with plush fur, a black button nose and a perpetually cheeky expression.
Her first owners took her as a kitten, a young couple who’d just moved in
together. They also took a puppy just as adorable. Unfortunately for the
animals, within weeks they’d decided they weren’t compatible – and they
dumped both animals at a rescue centre and went their separate ways.
Lucie
was at the rescue centre for almost a year, wasting most of her kittenhood in a
tiny pen, which was all the overstretched charity could afford to provide. She
also had an accident. During a game with a kitten one day, Lucie’s eyeball was
scratched accidentally. The scratch was treated by a Vet, but she somehow fought
off her protective plastic headcollar and scratched the eye again with her hind
claw the next day. The eye became infected, and had to be removed.
After
the operation, the Vet noticed that Lucie’s remaining pupil was looking
dilated. He diagnosed that she would one day go blind in the remaining eye, and
asked the cat rescue lady if she would consider having her put to sleep. She
refused.
So,
Lucie came to live with us. She has seen an eye specialist who has diagnosed
glaucoma, which will gradually worsen and result in her needing the eye removed.
It is easy to tell that Lucie can’t see everything clearly. But she’s an
adorable little cat who plays with balls and runs around (even if she does bump
into the odd bit of furniture now and again!). She talks to us in little squeaky
croons, and even finds the time to chase Poppy, our shy tabby. When the time
comes for Lucy to lose her remaining eye, she won’t be put to sleep.
Photos
Persephonies
Korats
