A Michael Broad Blog
How can I tell if my cat is blind or has impaired vision? I think that this is quite a good question because although often it may be obvious, on other occasions it might not. Cats are very good at compensating and the structure of the eye may look normal but the retina not …
Is this adorable cat Instagram star blind? No, but there is something odd or wrong here I feel. Pisco the Cat is a Golden British Shorthair. The main reason why he is so popular on Instagram with more than 600,000 followers is because the pupils of his eyes are always wide open. This gives …
“Miss Lilly on her weekly hike with Alex Theodorakis. Miss Lilly is totally blind but she loves to go on hikes. Here you can see she’s a bit tired and hitching a ride on Alex’s back pack.” – Facebook page of Westfield Homeless Cat Project Adoptions (WHCP). There is only one thing to say: …
Elliott and Nathanial Green went into Lynchburg Humane Society in Virginia, America to adopt a Siamese cat. They thought they were out of luck as the Siamese cats had been adopted or were reserved (were there more than one Siamese cat?). As it happens, they were in luck because it opened the door to …
Moet is a blind cat living in Oman. She is all-white and became blind in both eyes through neglect. We are not told what happened but the blindness is almost certainly due to an untreated secondary bacterial infection after a viral upper respiratory infection. Bacterial infections of the eyes in young cats can destroy …
This is bizarre and sad. Blind Cat Rescue (BCR), an immensely popular organisation on Facebook, tell us in a recent post that Abby is now 20 years of age and nicely rehomed at BCR. It is very strange that Abby was taken to Animal Control to be euthanised by her owners because ‘they didn’t …
This super cute blind, tabby knows how to protect herself when getting down from a cat tree. She is about 3 feet off the ground and to jump down head first is almost impossible for her because she can’t gauge the distance. Instead she meets the challenge with intelligence and common sense by turning …
In Dubai, three abandoned tabby cats living in a warehouse had become blind because of a viral infection which appears to have developed into a secondary, bacterial infection which had destroyed the eyes of the three siblings, one male and his two sisters. They were rescued. The male cat’s name is Blue. He was …
