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Why are my cat's eyes open and not blinking after spay surgery?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | unspayed | 1 year and 2 months old | 11.023 lbs

My cat is spayed but she is open her eyes ,not blinking his eyes only is she in aneshtia and she is doing nothing

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on February 4th, 2018

I think Lovely is still under the influence of the anesthetics, this type of awakening is typical to anesthesia with ketamine, she will very soon come out of it, in a few hours she should be back to her normal self.

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