So an update on Pickle. No change to his eye really - which is a good thing. He’s been off the antibiotics a while now and continues on Metacam with baby food - which he loves. He licks the Metacam off the top first and comes back later to eat the rest of the baby food. His eye looks no worse and the slight swelling around it is no worse. So he’s stable basically. Carries on doing all the usual hamsters things although less inclined to want to come out of the cage at the moment - maybe since the colder weather started or maybe just getting older. He cleaned out his house yesterday - I found a load of yellowish smelly substrate in front of it and a lot of substrate missing
. Pickle has never been completely toilet trained (the only Syrian I’ve had who pees in different places — although all within his house. He sometimes uses the litter tray and sometimes uses other substrate area in the house. But not his nest any more thankfully. And he has got very good at housekeeping in his old age!
So the eye remains looking fairly normal (ie not protruding) - sometimes looks a bit weepy round the outside.