Young Goat Pushed Away By Mother Because She Wasn't The Same Gets New View On Life

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (CBS) -- A young goat rejected by her mother because she wasn't like the other kids has a new view on life, thanks to the folks at Penn Vet's New Bolton Center in Chester County.

Toodles the goat would walk into things when she was born. Her owner had to bottle feed her because Toodles' mother pushed the kid away at nursing time.

At three months old she was brought to Penn Vet's New Bolton Center because of cloudy eyes. It was determined to be cataracts.

Sure, there's cataract surgery and there are lens implants for humans, dogs and horses, but goats, that's a different animal.

Dr. Catherine Nunnery is the large animal hospital's board-certified ophthalmologist.

"For a goat we didn't know, we didn't know what would be the correct correction. You think about you have corrective lenses when you have the optometrist measure you and you get corrective lenses, the same kind of process needs to happen for the artificial lens. We need to make sure we are putting in the best focusing lenses for her to see the best."

The lens was made in Germany, which turn out to be similar to ones used for dogs.

Toodles can now see and her owner says she's a happy little goat, even getting along with her mother.