A woman is urging all cat owners to remain vigilant after she realised an eye problem was worse than she thought.
Pamela Williams, from St Helens, said her cat Ozzy had developed a small spot on his left eyeball which they put down to his age. Being 12 at the time, the issue did not seem to bother him and they let him go about his days.
But five years later, during the covid lockdown, his eye gradually began to "cloud over" which was getting worse over the course of a few weeks. Taking him to the vets with the assumption it could be a cataract problem, they were soon hit with some devastating news.