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If your cat is blind, there are certain steps you can take to make sure they have a high quality of life without their vision. As with my friends growing up, try to keep your house clutter-free ...
A completely deaf, solid white, blue-eyed cat This engraving depicts two cats on a wall, with a dog jumping and barking below them. The white-spotted cat hisses at the dog, the solid-white deaf cat dozes unaware of the barking. Congenital sensorineural deafness occurs commonly in domestic cats with a white coat.
A blind mole-rat Visual perception in animals plays an important role in the animal kingdom, most importantly for the identification of food sources and avoidance of predators. For this reason, blindness in animals is a unique topic of study.
A cat's whiskers are more than twice as thick as ordinary cat hairs, and their roots are three times deeper in a cat's tissue than other hairs. They have numerous nerve endings at their base, which give cats extraordinarily detailed information about nearby air movements and objects with which they make physical contact. They enable a cat to ...
Catster says the transition for a blind cat takes a little preparation but isn't difficult to do. First, make sure the house is free from hidden hazards, like furniture corners, and "baby-proof ...
Owning a pet really makes you stop and appreciate the little things. Like a patch of sun on the floor or a walk around the block. The internet is practically gushing over a video of a blind kitty ...
Touch may be your language, but your cat may speak in a totally different tongue. "Cats have preferences just like people," says Dr. Richer. "Listen to your cat."
A rare predominantly black cat with odd eyes. The odd-eyed colouring is caused when either the epistatic (recessive) white gene or dominant white (which masks any other colour genes and turns a cat completely solid white) [3] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolour coats) [4] prevents melanin granules from reaching one eye during development, resulting in a cat ...