Dark Spot in My Siamese Cat's Eye

[kuhio98]

Welcome to Pet Talk! What is your cat's name?

It's probably just a freckle. Cammie (our tortie) has them and she's going strong at 16+. Probably nothing to worry about, but it never hurts to ask the vet at the next checkup.

Here's Cammie and her freckle.

[elleree]

Thanks, everyone, for all the welcomes and the responses! The kitty in question is Kia Chang Lu (commonly referred to as Kia =) ). She is 13 and a seal point Siamese and she is also currently very angry with me for being on the computer. Case in point; she meow-growled at it and keeps pawing my hand with her paw. ^_^;

Kuhio, thank you for the picture of Cammie! She is a very pretty girl and also, the picture makes me feel slightly better because Kia's spots look like that although they are a slightly lighter color brown.

And yes, Sandra, I see that on pet talk the rule seems to be ask and you shall receive. =) Thanks guys.

Thank you Catty1 and krazyaboutkats for the advice and websites. I'm trying not to panic--I tend to be a worried mom, though. I'm looking into eye vets in the area although I may just make my vet look at her properly when he does his next house call.

Hopefully her eye will be okay, I'll post if anything develops. I think I've been overly sensitive lately because my cat Merlin died in March. He was a good boy. I just don't want to lose anyone else.

Sorry if I've rambled on.
~Elleree

Mom to 8 Cats.

[Charlie's Mom]

Hi there. My 9 year old cat started out with one of these freckles in his left eye was he was a kitten. About 3 years ago it started to take over his eye and about a year ago his eye turned completely brown. Everyone in the vet's office was in awe that it did that but he is completely healthy. The vet did tell me to keep an eye on his eye for any other changes including any cloudiness when looking through his eye in the light or any other kinds of spots. To date there still have not been any problems and he is still his healthy little energetic self.

[Medusa]

Welcome to Pet Talk! My cat Yodie, a tortie, had something similar in her right eye that I didn't even notice. She was being checked at my vet's as a follow-up visit for ear polyp surgery when my vet spotted it. I can't recall the name of what it was but it required salve in her eye after the vet scraped it. It took several visits before it finally cleared up. Good luck and please keep us updated.

ETA: Ok, I realized that the info I gave you was hardly any info at all, so I looked up Yodie's receipt and she was treated for a corneal ulcer and an immune mediated condition similar to pannus. Pannus is a non-painful inflammatory disease of the cornea and conjunctiva, which usually is limited to dogs, especially German Shepherds. Yodie later rubbed her eye on the edge of furniture because it was clearly bothering her but I think that was because of the eye salve. If your cat should have this disease, though, it's important that you get it treated because it can eventually cause blindness if left untreated and treatment is a life long commitment. Fortunately, Yodie's condition was similar to pannus but was not pannus. I hope this helps but didn't scare you.