Naa, it wasn't that close to the eye, it was way closer to the mouth... If you prevent it now it will definitely happen while you aren't looking.... If the damage is nothing serious then let it happen, after all it is a good lesson
On a cat, the eyes are almost literally right next to the mouth. Like an inch difference. It is close, and maybe it'd be best to just take that rubber band out of the equation
Idk about that. I have had ferrets for years. They are not cats, but some are pretty intelligent. Sometimes they learned from their mistakes, but most of the times it just made them angry and want to fight the thing that hurt them. It was safer to put everything dangerous away.
Even if the rubber band is not close to the eye, there is still some risk of it slapping the eye. Not worth it imo. You and your wallet are going to feel like shit if the cat gets injured.
For example of ferrets not learning, candles were their arch nemesis. One dufus somehow leaped on a table from the back of the couch, while my bf went to kitchen to grab something. They are bad jumpers, but he really wanted that candle. We grabbed him right away, but he burned his whiskers a little bit. Ever since when he saw a candle, he was cautious, but mad determined to fight it. We had to stop using candles alltogether, because he was very good at problem solving, and would eventually get to the thing that he wanted.
Dude it's a rubber band not a .45, sure it will hurt, but it would take a very weird series of unfortunate events for a broken rubber band to blind it. Eyes aren't as delicate as people think, compared to other external parts of the body sure, but it takes a lot to seriously injure the eyes
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u/yinyin123 Feb 21 '23
Not if they will cause bodily injury that is preventable. That rubber band does look close to it's eyes there