Hello!
I have a 9 year old Lionhead rabbit (perhaps even 10 years…I don’t know his exact age) that lately I have been noticing a bit of swelling around his eye, and my mom has informed me today that its a cataract. I can share a picture in a moment if you guys want one, but I trust her judgement and am guessing that’s whats going on.
If so, I don’t want to put my grump through surgery, and I wanted to ask people’s opinions on if it’ll bother him or not, or if there are things that I can do to make it easier for him. Lion (the bun) hasn’t had drastic eyesight loss, from what I can tell, and his other eye is fine. There’s only a tinyyyy bit of clouding, but you have to see it in the right light. This has been going on for at least a week?
But since Lion is getting old, I feel like that not only a surgery would be dangerous, but he’s a tough lil guy that would probably be very stressed in that situation.
Maybe it isn’t a cataract, but as I said, I don’t know. I want to be prepared to help him through this if it is, without having to alternate to surgery.
I’ll be looking up things online about it in the meanwhile. (And getting those pics uploaded) Thanks for reading!