Has anyone had ear surgery on their cat?

Question

My cat was attacked by something a few months ago and it toar her ear canal in half. When it healed it healed closed and now she needs surgury to have the canal removed. Its called something like LATERAL EAR RESECTION has anyone had this surgury done on one of your animals? What did it cost and was their any complications afterward?

Answer 1

it is an expensive surgery usually because of all of the nerves around the area. and complications usually can be infection and just the care required afterwards. but it sounds like it needs to be done. you need to do what your vet reccomends. if you don't do the surgery it can lead to life threatening complications later on down the road, then you are looking at doing the surgery with an infected area and a sickly animal, better to do it now while everything sounds like it's healthy and will heal better with less chance of complications. we charge anywhere from $200-$500 for this procedure. but your vet should have given you an estimate when they suggested this surgery. if they didn't call them and ask them this question, because this is one your vet should be answering.

Answer 2

Well I've never had THAT happen to one of my cat's but my cat teddy got attacked by what we thought was a raccoon. He got a Balder infection. He had to have surgery. It cost about 1-2,000 dollars. It helped a little...

Then we had a cat, Ibis, Jump off our roof trying to get on a tree. He broke a hip bone. He had surgery and THAT cost around 2-3,000 dollars. 10-20 years after, His heart failed. He died. The doctor says that happened BECAUSE of the surgery.


*cries* Ill miss you both!

We had to give teddy away.

Answer 3

noooo weird