UPDATE 11/10/2024

We regret to inform you that sadly Ragetti has not survived his ordeal and treatment, despite fighting hard against the odds.

His initial recovery to his enucleation procedure went as well as could be expected, and we were happy with his state for the first 24 hours. Sadly, over the next couple of days, he slowly deteriorated. He became unable to control his own temperature and he refused to eat. A feeding tube was placed to provide assisted feeding, but even with this his glucose levels would not maintain, and his energy levels kept dropping. He no longer became respondent to our strokes and cuddles, whereas before he was always seeking out attention in the form of face rubs. The decision was made by a collective of our vets who felt that he was now suffering, and the odds of recovery were impossible. He was helped to sleep by our veterinary team, having known love and care and affection for the last week of his life. The removed eye came back as a highly malignant cancer, with a high chance of having already infiltrated further into his body. This means that he had been left in this condition for quite some time by whoever had been caring for him/abandoned him. We are very grateful to the person who found him for bringing him in for treatment and to all the members of the public who have donated to his appeal or to our branch Just Giving page, you have our gratitude. These donations ensure the animals of Southend and the surrounding areas who either have been abandoned by their owner or have no owner to call their own get the treatment they need and hopefully find a new home of their own.

Sadly Ragetti’s case did not have the outcome we were all hoping for. However, his case has proved to ourselves that there are many caring people out there willing to offer the funds and homes needed to save more lives in the future.

If you would like to still support the RSPCA Essex South & Southend District Branch in our endeavours, the donation links to our Just Giving page and Ragetti’s own appeal are here:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/rspcaragettiappeal

https://www.justgiving.com/rspcaessexsouthandsouthend

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This senior cat was brought into our local vets with a severe eye injury, no owner was found so he came into the care of our branch.

His case is unfortunately not black and white, although the eye was the obvious concern, there are a multitude of issues with this boy that need addressing which are not obvious. He has had surgery to remove the eye which when removed did look cancerous, it’s been sent to the lab for confirmation.

He has a hard lump on his neck/throat area that was sampled and has come back as inflammation, but we cannot rule out that he possibly has cancer there too. He is incredibly skinny, placed at a 1-2/9 on the body condition score. He is also very anaemic with an unknown cause, we are awaiting further info from the lab on that also.

We are also not sure about the vision in his other eye, and he could be completely blind.

He’s a very sweet and friendly boy, and was named Ragetti by the veterinary team after the one eyed pirate in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'

Times are difficult for everyone we know, but every £1 helps, so if you are able to help support Ragetti's surgery and his recovery we would be truly grateful.