She is our oldest cat, but we don't know how old. She's been through so much already and now this. She was a stray my sister brought home years ago after seeing some terrorist, I mean kid, throw it in a fenced in yard with a dog. She found her a few days later missing her tail and brought her home.
Of course growing up ouside, she had always bee and in-and-outdoor cat. As she got older, she got to where she only goes out when the weather is nice.
She showed no signs of anything wrong yesterday. She goes and sits by the front door when she wants out, and she went outside that morning. Later that afternoon, my neighbor across the street called and said our cat was laying in his yard and wouldn't move. He thought she might have been having kittens, but she's been fixed. She's a little chunky, so that's probably why he thought that. My sister was over here, so she went and picked her up and brought her in. She set her on my bed and she walked around like she was confused. Then she almost walked right off the bed. We put her on the floor and she started walking around kind of cautiously, then ran into a box.
We took her to the vet and they kept her overnight. They ran blood tests and checked her out, but they didn't find anything wrong at all. He said she's perfectly healthy, but couldn't explain why she would have gone blind like that. He thinks she may have been blind in one eye all this time and we never knew it, and the other eye just gave out.
It's a good thing she was in a neighbor's yard that knew she belonged to us.
She's home now, and has been feeling her way around the house. I guess she's doing ok. The doc said not to move things around, but that's going to be a problem since we're in the middle of doing some re-modeling.
What can we do to make things easier for her? She has already tried to go out the front door when I opened it once.
Of course growing up ouside, she had always bee and in-and-outdoor cat. As she got older, she got to where she only goes out when the weather is nice.
She showed no signs of anything wrong yesterday. She goes and sits by the front door when she wants out, and she went outside that morning. Later that afternoon, my neighbor across the street called and said our cat was laying in his yard and wouldn't move. He thought she might have been having kittens, but she's been fixed. She's a little chunky, so that's probably why he thought that. My sister was over here, so she went and picked her up and brought her in. She set her on my bed and she walked around like she was confused. Then she almost walked right off the bed. We put her on the floor and she started walking around kind of cautiously, then ran into a box.
We took her to the vet and they kept her overnight. They ran blood tests and checked her out, but they didn't find anything wrong at all. He said she's perfectly healthy, but couldn't explain why she would have gone blind like that. He thinks she may have been blind in one eye all this time and we never knew it, and the other eye just gave out.
It's a good thing she was in a neighbor's yard that knew she belonged to us.
She's home now, and has been feeling her way around the house. I guess she's doing ok. The doc said not to move things around, but that's going to be a problem since we're in the middle of doing some re-modeling.
What can we do to make things easier for her? She has already tried to go out the front door when I opened it once.
