We recently adopted 2 cats from Petsmart. i recommend petsmart since their adoption center is actually run by local adoption agencies and DO NOT use kitty or puppy mills. anyway, the two cats WERE named Ray and Charles, get it Ray Charles, can you guess why? One of the two cats is blind and his brother was his eyes. The poor kitties were found cold, wet, and very weak. Its probably what lead Ray to be blind. The blind one knows when it’s time to eat when he hears his brother crunching away at food and learned where the water was by hearing his brother lap up the water. Charles ( the not blind one ) ,we think, developed this loud and strange purr so his blind brother can find him.
We changed their names to Jordie (LeForge) and Dante. Jordie is black with a white under belly and Dante is pure black and silky. We have noticed that Jordie has actually regained some eye sight. nothing major but we think he can see very blurry shadows and high contrast stuff. good think his brother is all black. Jordie occasionaly meows when he feels lost or alone and we just have to answer him and he feels better and stops meowing.
at first the two cats were scared and walked around crouching very low to the ground since they were very unsure about their surrounding. We had a box in the corner of the room and they both squeezed and slept there for the first three days or so. They started to get more comfortable and started running around. They use to shy away from us when we tried to pet them but that was also over around the third day. Now they run around like crazy, climbing all over the place (mostly Dante with some very limited climbing done by Jordie). They have also been farting up a storm. It’s like a punch in the face every time because the smell just suddenly appears.
We were given Science Diet Dry Kitten food for them. Not really the best stuff but it was free. They mostly use chicken by-products as their protein source and you can actually smell the deep fried chicken skin in the food! We went ahead and bought them some Science Diet Wet Kitten food. Jordie likes the food and Dante thinks its poo. Seriously. He smells it and starts pawing around it like he would his poo in the litter box! Love the Blue Buffalo stuff though!
I’ll be making a post about cat care later. let’s just say we have learned A LOT! Here is a little spoiler. If you haven’t been feeding your cat Blue Buffalo or EVO, you are only feeding him garbage food. that included science diet!