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| Name: |
Daniel
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Age: |
Four years old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Orange tabby
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| Home: |
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
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Daniel
has no eyes that function, but we don't tell him he's blind. He was
born without a right eye - just the blue-grey lens and the left eye
ruptured before it opened; also his tail was broken at the base and
missing the tip. My sister is a vet tech, and when he was brought in he
was about six to seven months old. They decided any blind cat who could live
outside in the middle of winter in northern PA that long deserved a
chance. He tested negative for FIV so they surgically removed his left eye
and treated him for malnutrition. He quickly became the office favorite
as he followed them around by sound and demanded attention. Everyone
wanted to take him home, but they either had dogs or open stairways, so
Daniel came to live with me.
Most people, when they first watch him move around the apartment, don't
realize he's blind. He runs, jumps, climbs and attacks his much bigger
brother cats, Splash, Bojangles, MickeyKitty and Fuzzbutt. His favorite
thing is to dive off the headboard into the middle of the waterbed. He
does suffer from Rhinotracheitis caused by FVH, but I keep him nearly
symptom-free by giving him 500mg of L-Lysine very other day, and he will
only eat it if it's mixed in peach yogurt.
It's been interesting to watch which traits/behaviors are in born and
which are learned. In some ways he'll be my forever kitten. But what a
cuddle bug - he climbs in my lap to be held, no matter what I am doing at
the time and he deserves every bit of that attention.
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