Why would you want to? There is something beneficial in taking away some of the cat’s arrogance and making it more dependent on the kindness of humans.
Easy. You just say, “Nurse, go restrain that tiger while I get the tranquilizer ready.” It’s what you go to medical school for.
Very carefully...
Pfl
I can’t see the point of this thread.
My pupper Harley(aussie) got cataract surgery at Davis vet school 14 years ago.
He has been gone for 11 years but the time he got with clear vision was a treat for me.
The moments he realized he could see again were gifts from heaven.
Still miss him.
Lots of Ketamine
Well, obviously one eye first, and two weeks later, if all’s well, the other eye.
D'OH!
v-e-r-y- c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y...
The concept of the intraocular lens came about not long after WWII.
A fighter pilot was shot down in the war. His eye injury was sewed up and a few years later a doc is looking in his eye and sees a piece of Plexiglas from the windshield of the plane floating in his eye not causing any problems at all. A light bulb went off in someone’s head and they figured figured out we could use plastics as intraocular lens.
Remember when we were kids old people walking around with super thick glasses, (Well, at least some of do. LOL!)That was prior to implants.
I don’t get this. “doctors use an ultrasonic probe to shatter the lens and suck it out” He, she doesn’t have to. There are other methods.
What I what to know is how they calculate the thickness on the new intraocular lens to give an animal maximal visual potential and how they work around post-op medicinal drops. Injections of long acting antibiotics and steroids? Prob.
The first cataract surgeries I heard about on animals were on condors. Amazing to me.
P.S. Another WWII tidbit. Testing microwaves to spy on the Japanese planes...One of the science guys noticed his chocolate bar in his pocket melted. Light Bulb! Microwave ovens