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Ernest,
The Contact Lens Cat
Daily Mail Reporter, London. 12-15-08
Most contact lens wearers
have had trouble putting them in their eyes at some point - so the idea
of putting them on a cat might seem ridiculous.
But that is exactly what the owners of Ernest - a 15-year-old
black and white cat -
have found themselves doing.
And from these pictures the elderly moggie looks like he has plenty to
purr about after the lens have transformed him from a squinting cat unable
to see where he was going.
The contact lens, fitted by a vet, have saved Ernest
from a life-threatening operation.
The old pet, suffers from entropion - an inward rolling
of the eyelids, which causes inflammation and hinders
sight.
He has lived at the RSPCA rescue centre in Godshill,
Isle of Wight, for 13 years after he was injured in a
car accident.
Centre manager Paula Sadler, 56, said: 'Before Earnest
was given the contact lenses he was quite squinty and
had trouble seeing where he was going.
'Now his eyes have opened up and he has a new lease of
life.
'Given his old age it would have been very risky giving
him an operation because there is no telling how he would
have reacted to the anaesthetic.
'The lenses have worked wonders.
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