Well, Falkie seems to be healing wel from his injuries. The unfortunate thing is that everytime his immune system gets a jab, such as the eye-thing, he creates too much smear in his ears, which eventually leads to an ear-infection. Very fun, especially during the Easter-weekend. I just cleaned out his ears every day, and it seems to work.

As the eye heals, so the ears seem to muster up less smear every day. It does not look red yet, nor does it seem painful(he lets me clean them out easily enough, though clearly reluctantly), or does it smell wrong, so I am really hoping I averted an infection. I have to go to work in the clinic tomorrow, so I will ask the question, but so far so good.

The thing is, since January, we've had a Falkie with an infected eye, a Lulu with an infected eye and a re-infected eye, and now again a Falkie with an infected eye. And this morning we finally saw why: it seems our Prinny is the culprit. This we already suspected but we had no clue why the hell she was always so able to land that claw right in the right eye.
This morning however, we saw Prinny at the food dish with the Falkie. Now, I use large bowls as four of my five cats eat from that food. So they are perfectly able to eat together from that dish. The thing is, that Falkie has the extremely annoying habit to sit right across from Prinny, in the corner, which makes him quite literally steal the food from under her nose.

Prinny is a kitty that does not care about getting to the food bowl first. But when she does get there, after all the other cats have eaten, she wants and demands her peace and quiet. Having Falkie come over for seconds is one thing, but him stealing the food right from under her nose is quite an other. She was growling and hissing at him today, and he was still not getting the hint. Then she smacked him without using her claws, right on his eye, since he's sitting right in front of her with his head low to eat. The next thing that happened was me calling out her name, to which she just got fed up and left the food bowl to go growl in a corner. Falkie made himself scarce. This is probably what happened to Lulu as well, and this is probably how her eye got re-infected: because she got whacked again. Luckily, she learns after a couple of times. Falkie does not. He does it on purpose, just to annoy the top cat. Not smart.

Now when did this all start? In January. When we introduced the feeding system because our Arwen is allergic to normal food. So now they know there is a limit on the food. And that makes them all a wee bit more on edge. This means that Prinny's patience goes from scarce to non-existant! And Falkie is not picking up on the vibe. I am gonna have to do something about this or I am going to keep cleaning eyes and ears forever. Guess it is time to crank up the amount of feeding stations *sigh*