(Warning: Disturbing) Can you save a cat that had its eye popped out?

Question

Our family cat Pookie got hit by a car after a handyman startled it and it ran into traffic. I went out to help and found it on the side of the road, laying there. Its eye had popped the socket and was hanging by some cords below the eye. The people who hit it must have got second thoughts and came back - the wife was hysterical with fright on seeing it, and offered to take it to a vet. The husband said not to bother as there was nothing that they could do as it was dead. Just after he said that the cat made its
last "death" movements....which the wife saw causing her to start wailing. I buried the cat shortly after since Pookie had obviously "gone to heaven".

I'm wondering if there was anything that I could have done to save it. Apart from the popped eye, I didn't see any other obvious trauma (mind you the eye looked HUGE outside the socket)? Maybe it's skull suffered some extreme force ?????

Answer 1

when i go to turn a light in a room, and it does turn on, the first thing i do is tighten the bulb. perhaps if you had immediately screwed pookie's eye back in the socket, he would have been able to tell you he saw the "light", and you could have told him to walk away from it.

Answer 2

A dog's skull is stronger than a cat's skull. So, if a dog was saved after his eye popped out, that certainly does not mean your cat could have been saved.

Am sorry you had to find your cat like this. The same thing happened to my cat last May. She got hit by a car and her eye popped out too.

Fact: If a cat is hit on the head, hard enough to make her eye pop out, she will have severe brain damage and die from that. The good news to this sad story is, that your cat must have been been uncontious immedeately.

Except the fact that there was nothing you could have done to save your cat. It's not your fault that your cat died.

Answer 3

I've worked in a walk in clinic (for humans) for 5 years and prior worked in a pet store/vet office for 1 year. I know for sure that if an eyeball from a human or an animal can be saved IF it is still attached to the brain. If the eye still had the vessels and nerves and optical nerve still attached, you are to put it in a wet cloth inside of a plastic ziplock bag with more warm (air temperature, not cold and not quite luke warm) and hold onto the animal and the eye in the bag and take it to an animal hospital or vet ASAP. After examing it, if it is still functioning, they will can put it back in place and the animal will wear an eyepatch for several weeks and go to a reexam. For a human, if your eye pops out and it's still attached, you are to put it in your mouth and go to ER immediately or call 911. Your saliva has some of the same components as the mucos in your socket. Just don't swallow or bite. It's gross but I've seen it first hand and it works and it can be done. If the person absolutely can't or it's a child, wrap it in a wet cloth and put it in a ziploc bag. (don't zip the bag shut! just hold it open)

If the eyeball is no longer attached, a doctor/vet cannot save the eye. It's too delicate of an organ with the tiny nerves and vessels and it's location inside the skull is too difficult to reach.

Since your cat died shortly after being hit, it suffering internal damage and was probably bleeding internally. If you have the means to take him or her to a vet or animal hospital, they could exam and take xrays to determine the level of damage. Then they would tell you if they could "fix" him or put him to sleep. Sorry for your lose!

Answer 4

I'm sure there was internal damage that you wouldn't see. Whether it be the skull, heart, kidney's, etc. It wouldn't have been just the eye popping out that killed her. Some other organ was damaged. Believe it or not, lots of animals lose eyes. (hit by a car, fight with another, etc) Some dogs (shih-tzu's in particular) have been known to literally blow thier eyes out of their sockets when too excited, scared etc. They can usually be pushed back into place with the help of the vet if the nerves are still attached. But the ones that lose the eye are just stiched up and sent home with no ill results and manage just as well as before.
I doubt there was anything you could have done for your cat, and I am so very sorry for your loss.

Answer 5

Most likely, the impact to the head that caused the ocular trauma was the cause of death. If it was just the eye, the cat should have been alert, and able to move around, but painful. You would be surprised how much pain animals can deal with, when they are scared.

If the cat had not had more serious injuries, the eye could have been removed without serious long term consequences. It's pretty clear that your poor cat took a hard hit to the head. It may not have survived the head trauma, even with immediate and aggressive therapy.

So very sorry about your cat!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I'm really sorry for what happened...I remember that a long time ago, my dogs had a fight, and one of my dogs attacked my miniture pintcher, which caused one of her eyeballs to pop out. My mom took her to the vet, and the vet forced it back in. She lost sight ever since, but she did very well to adapt.

So I think the damage should be a lot more serious than just the popped eye.
I'm so very sorry T_T

Answer 8

Popped Eyeball

Answer 9

There was probably nothing that you could have done to keep the cat alive. Sorry. The eye though, that could have been fixed. A friend of mine has a dog and its eye popped out of its head too... she rushed it to the vet and they fixed it, but it is now blind in that eye.

Answer 10

I'll say there must of been head trauma! Yes an animal can live without an eye....even both, there are lots of animals that are blind and have a fine life......Though I do have a question...why have an animal if you aren't going to keep it in the house or keep a fence up that's high and strong enough to keep them inside protected.....never fails to amaze me.

Answer 11

Oh how terrible. I leave the door of my washing machine open after I have used it, so it wont go mouldy, and several times I have caught my kitten trying to climb into it, but I always check that the washer is empty before I put the dirty clothes in it. Even so, twice now I have heard miouws for help in the house, and I looked all over the house for her before I tracked her down. The first time I found her trapped in the roof space, and the second time I found her trapped in the bathroom cabinet with the door closed. Cats are so inquisitive arent they, that they easily get themselves into trouble. I am so sorry for Chance and for you and your husband.