Hello! It is Alyssa with Wild and Wonderful Animal Rescue again.. we have been so busy! We usually post to the pregnant cats and kitten care forum or the feral forum. As our rescue grows we have been SLAMMED and I haven't had much time to come on here and update. A couple of weeks ago we were messaged about helping with a shelter a couple of counties away. This shelter is run by some older women who are dealing with health issues of their own and they want out, but no one is willing to take it over because they are OVERRUN. They have over 200 cats and 80 dogs. We went out to visit and it was overwhelming just to see, I will have to share pictures from our trip later. After we left I just couldn't get some of the cats out of my head. There was a young black cat named Neptune there who had just had eye removal surgery... Another young tabby named Tabitha who had one eye removed and is mostly blind out of the other eye. And lastly there was a crate of three tabicos with URI's, one had a badly damaged eye. I figured that there was a reason I couldn't get them out of my head... so I pulled them. I have had them a little over a week now, they are all in crates now as they are in quarantine. When they are healthy they will have free roam of the room they are in. Tabitha had a mild URI, she also has diarrhea (I suspect from the antibiotics she is on for the URI, I am giving her probiotics now), Neptune has bad diarrhea. I just started him on Panacur today. The tabicos have the URI, one of them (not the one with the bad eye) is the worst. She has noisy breathing. So they are all being treated and hopefully they will be healthy and out of quarantine soon! The tabicos just got spayed and Neptune and Tabitha already were at the time of their eye removals.
So I need some advise. Does anyone have experience with blind cats? I am trying to think of what qualifications I should have for her future adopter? Tips to pass onto them. I want to make sure I am setting her up for success in her new home. She is a VERY sweet girl. As soon as she hears you in the room she meows to be picked up and starts purring.
Here is Tabitha!
Neptune! He is a super sweet and energetic guy! He was rolling around while I was trying to get his picture lol
This is the tabico with the worst of the URI
Not a munchkin cat, just angle of the picture I think lol
Here is the tabico with the damaged eye... we are getting her into our vet to see if anything can be done... it doesn't seem to be painful or anything.. I think she will just be blind out of it.
So I need some advise. Does anyone have experience with blind cats? I am trying to think of what qualifications I should have for her future adopter? Tips to pass onto them. I want to make sure I am setting her up for success in her new home. She is a VERY sweet girl. As soon as she hears you in the room she meows to be picked up and starts purring.
Here is Tabitha!
Neptune! He is a super sweet and energetic guy! He was rolling around while I was trying to get his picture lol
This is the tabico with the worst of the URI
Not a munchkin cat, just angle of the picture I think lol
Here is the tabico with the damaged eye... we are getting her into our vet to see if anything can be done... it doesn't seem to be painful or anything.. I think she will just be blind out of it.