Woman’s Lifelong Project. Socializing a Blind Feral Cat
A woman’s lifelong project. Socializing a blind feral cat. And what a project; which had an interesting beginning full of love and generosity.
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Oskar The Blind Cat Dies
The celebrated blind cat, Oskar, died yesterday at 11 AM. It is believed that he died of heart failure. He passed away suddenly and there were no indications of health problems. He died in a house filled with love and with a full belly. Nothing could be done for him by his veterinarian. If you …
What Is the Best Indoor Cat?
The best indoor cat will be a blind cat in my opinion. Everybody will agree with me that a blind cat should be confined to the indoors with an additional outdoor enclosure of reasonable size (if possible) to help provide him/her with a stimulating environment with nature’s feel under paw, smells and sounds.
Blind mother cat and earless son living outside seek new understanding home
Rachel and her son were living outside in a garden. Rachel is blind. She’s a tortoiseshell-and-white cat. She is about 13 years old. Her son, Ross, has lost his ears. He is five years old and white. His ear flaps were removed due to ‘skin damage’. This must refer to damage through either sunburn and/or …
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Neighbors complain about a catio for blind and deaf cats
A woman living in London, UK, is embroiled in a council planning row and a dispute with complaining neighbours because she installed a modest sized cat enclosure for blind cats in her back garden (backyard). Her name is Josie Hitchens. Josie looks after four blind and one deaf cat. She says that she has a …
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Blind cat gets off cat condo tower backwards
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 around …
Eight year old girl loves blind rescue cat
Britta Bergeson wanted to adopt this one-year-old blind rescue cat as soon as she saw her on the Arizona Humane Society (AHS) website. These small images are linked to larger versions and a short description. She was a stray cat, whose eyes had been injured beyond repair and had to be removed. She was …
Cat rescuers go out of their way on Christmas Eve to save blind kitten and its littermate
This is the happy ending story of another Christmas miracle involving two beautiful cat rescuers who went out of their way to get two kittens to safety on Christmas Eve after they were found recently in a bamboo field in Upstate South Carolina. The finder was unable to keep them and reached out to me …
Lady adopts three blinded sibling cats to keep them together
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 placed …
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There is no such thing as “disability” for cats
Disability is seeing things as half empty. It is better to see things as half full as Honey Bee does instinctively. In fact she doesn’t even think about her disability at all. I believe that this is a lesson for many humans. Cats do teach us lessons if we are open to them. Honey …
My 18 year old cat seems to be going deaf and has health problems. Advice?
My 18-year-old beloved tortoiseshell (calico) long-hair female seems to be going deaf. Her sight is already impaired in one of her eyes. So concerned over her as she no longer wants to go out, does not trust anyone other than me and is losing confidence. I even now have to feed her in my bedroom …
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I Would Like to Adopt a Blind Cat. Why?
Why would I like to adopt a blind cat? Let’s go wider and ask why would a person like to adopt a disabled cat. There are many people like me who would respond to a cat in need. This post is about people much more than it is about cats. It was inspired by cute …
Blind Cat Homer Is Sick
By Elisa Black-Taylor Blind cat Homer could possibly be the most famous cat alive today in the U.S. His human companion, Gwen Cooper, wrote a best seller detailing his life in “Homer’s Odyssey”, and her new book “Love Saves The Day” is set to be published in January 2013. Homer, now 15, has been sick …
Blind Holiday Kitten
This is a simple story about a blind holiday kitten. These things happen. You like cats. You are sensitive to their needs. You are on holiday in Italy. You see a dying kitten that is in a bad way. You can’t walk on by. You get involved and it changes your life. You spend the …
I Cried So Hard
‘I cried so hard’ is a story of true love – the adoption of a blind cat and the happiness that followed. For me there is almost nothing so good, so touching and meaningful than a good woman adopting a cat that so needs a good woman to care for her. The words of the …
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