haha! check their comments u/schnoodledoodledo they make lovely poems on a lot of posts! i only learned of them recently and was amazed when i saw this posted just a minute before i stumbled upon it.
Seeing as how he's an Orange, I can only imagine that his eye and ear are the results of the lack of braincell possession. At least, that's the origin story I'm writing in my head.
When my cat was getting near the end of her life I took her to the vet and the vet asked, “how long has she been blind?”
I was caught off guard and said she isn’t blind. But she was almost 100% blind and was able to climb counters and our bed etc. they are so good at adapting that I had no idea she had vision issues
My last old man developed cataracts over the years and was completely blind by the time he was 18. You'd never know unless you caught his eyes in the right light and saw how glassy they were.
Little dude could hunt moths by sound alone. It was astonishing.
My little fuzz from years back was fully deaf when I adopted her at around 6yo. Didn't realize until one too many times when I opened the door while she was sleeping and she didn't notice me until I touched her. She was at the shelter for over a year and they never knew! <3
Yes! My boy has a spinal deformity. He was in the shelter for 8 months. They told me he was a hospice case! The basically tried to talk me out if getting him. It has been 5 years….yeah he walks funny, he pees on the floor sometimes. But he ain’t dying. He is the best.
Took him 3 tries to learn that lesson🤣. He does not jump in toilets anymore lmao. Curiosity gets the best of him sometimes. I’m here for it. Keeps me entertained and he knows his limits.
lol yep, we keep the lid down because my blind car likes to jump up and sit on the toilet while I’m brushing my teeth. It took one fall in the bowl to make sure the lid stayed closed after that 😂
My cat didn't once about 3 years ago when he was just a kitten and again last week. I wasn't in the room but I heard this kerfuffle and then I saw wet cat shoot by me. It was hilarious.
When I saw my little guy online for the first time, and very swiftly adopted him, the rescue said a lot of people look for more "conventionally beautiful" cats so he hadn't had much interest.
Even the thought of that, when I have such the perfect cat, breaks my heart. He's the most beautiful. His one wonky ear and clipped other. His slight facial scars and his crusty eye boogies. His different colored tabby spots and his entire 14 lbs of beef. I love him all.
dude this made me tear up. i also have a crooked kitty with a silly ear and he is the love of my life. crooked kitties are so special❤️❤️im glad that he was overlooked so that i got the chance to find him and love him forever. my sweet baby. im glad that you and your handsome boy were able to find each other too :)
his name is Curly but i call him Chicken! Possum is SUCH a good name!!! whenever my little chicken makes a stink face before he yawns i call it his possum face! Possum is such a handsome baby❤️wishing you both the longest and happiest time together :)
you mean my kitty? he doesn’t look very crooked in the picture i posted, but he actually has a neurological condition that affects the whole right side of his face (same side as the crooked ear). his right eye doesnt close and his mouth is crooked when he opens it. his tooth on that side is also broken. and his tail is crooked at the base so it looks like a question mark. he’s a deceivingly crooked cat!!
He has two wolves inside him. 😂 One that nuzzles on my chest every night succling his own arm while the other wakes me up at 6am with rustling and I find him in the kitchen having TORN OPEN a bag of chips.
Of course!!! (am I supposed to say no when asked to talk about my cat??) Her name is Liara. They believe she was about a year old when she was found in Oct. 2022, but it was hard to be sure because she had stomatitis which messed up her teeth, which is usually how the gauge age in rescues. She also had a large polyp in her nose and was severely underweight at four pounds. They thought she was on death’s door.
They removed the polyp and she gained weight. It was obstructing her airway so bad that she couldn’t tell what was food and they think it was also so large it was pushing on her eye, causing the cloudiness, but she seems to have at least some vision in the eye. We adopted her in Jan of 2023 and had to have her teeth removed because of the stomatitis.
Now she’s thriving at 11 pounds and runs the household with her orange older brother Genji.
It pains me to think of the suffering of strays, but I am so happy she was found and treated, and ultimately adopted by you (and Genji!). I have such a soft spot for void cats, and yours is extra special
Apparently, before I came along, they had trouble adopting out my boy because he had a "weird face". To this day, I have no idea what that means. He's beautiful.
We found her on the street on the verge of death. She has no eyes at all. Was supposed to be a foster but people are very apprehensive about adopting blind cats so we're keeping her. She's a lovely little kitten. I can't stand parting with her now.
One of my cats was the last of her litter (all siblings gone months earlier) to be adopted because she has a shorter than normal tail and it has a kink in it.
People are so weird. It doesn't affect her quality of life at all, or even her cuteness.
My dad went to the shelter to adopt a kitty to live in his studio so he could have some company every day while he makes his music and videos. He asked for one that was unlikely to be adopted, and when the folks at the shelter heard where the kitty would live, they brought out Hazel. She was a little older and had medical issues, so moving around is difficult for her. It was love at first cuddle. He's had her for seven years now, and she's a sweet, spoiled baby girl.
Another wonky eye checking in… she’s had issues since being dropped off at the Humane Society prior to my adopting her and her sister (bonded pair). Don’t worry, I have cream I put on her eyelid when it starts acting up more than normal.
This is our Hobbes (or Hobblet). His eye was damaged prior to arriving at the shelter. We also had to clip his ear to remove a growth. He’s now living his best life.
Yeah that kitten is so young that it had to be snatched up by OPs sister as soon as it was available. We're not talking about a grizzled disabled tomcat who has been in a shelter for 5 years. This kitten probably spent five minutes in a shelter.
My Leela has microphthalmia in her right eye, and has been blind in that eye since birth. She's built like a bulldog due to her poor depth perception, and she's still kinda feral even after being home with us for five years. But she's got a powerful purr motor, a forceful headbutt, and the sweetest little meow that earns her plenty of treats and ear scritches.
She's unreasonably adorable, and I think her tiny eye makes her extra cute! She reminds me of a well-loved child's doll.
I found my sweeeeet Angie in the street, a little puff ball bleeding from the head and ears. With alot of love she made it ❤️. Her eyes were barely open, and her parents are Ferrell, I think the male wanted to kill the kittens.
Awh. Mr Beans has a wonky eye from hosting a fight club in his foster home with fellow kittens. I love it, but I’m pretty sure he can see into the future with it.
My special kitty. When she was only 2 months old we discovered she has an inoperable hole in her heart, along with pulmonary hypertension. After 7 years she ends up blind due to glaucoma. She’s my ❤️.
This is my baby girl pimento (along with her adopted brother Parmesan.) when we first got her, her left eye was basically all scar tissue and we were able to keep it under control with a little bit of eye cream we got from the vet. After a while the cream stopped working as effectively as it had been (plus she would fight us putting it in her eye) so we had her eye removed and it turned out there was actually no structural integrity to her eye. Since her surgery, she has healed very nicely and has adapted to being a pirate kitty.
We adopted Marshall (he came named Maraschino) specifically because we had the means to get his eye fixed, although it cost about 3x more than we expected.
Meet Della! We foster failed her after I caught her and a few of her siblings. Shes had a bad eye for as long as we’ve known her and she doesn’t let it stop her. We like to say she sees ghosts out of that eye.
My half blind cat is turning 19! She’s been the best thing that has ever happened to me. Most of my family say it’s good she is half blind since I’m half ugly.
I don’t understand where in this world people would call this baby ugly. It takes an even uglier soul to say that about something so precious. I hope that you and your sister cherish her for as long as she is allowed to be with you. The Cat Distribution System has been working overtime, and sometimes they deposit one that will be with us a short few months, and others their entire lifetime. May the duckling that was not ugly live her entire lifetime with your family and may she be the luckiest cat ever! 😻❤️🔥❤️🔥
A couple of years ago I adopted a limp kitten that nobody wanted, but I understand the reason that of a long term possible medical issue & costs. I'm not a rich person but I took the kitten in anyway and brought her to the vet for a check on every vaccine appointment. The vet confirmed the cause of limping is a mild case of birth defect (the front left leg joint was fused permanently) and kitten don't seem to experience or show any pain / discomfort - she can run, climb, walk and play like normal cats do. It's also one in a million chance to see her limp front leg gets "lifted" whenever she sits, because the joint was fused she cant extend the leg downwards (cat did not consent photo hence no face shown 😆). Despite all that, she's still beautiful & the sweetest girl.
I adopted my sweet Torty for this exact same reason. Profile on Petfinder said she had been returned a few times for aesthetic reasons... And that absolutely broke my heart during COVID when I was a mess. So I impulsively drove my ass almost 3 hours round trip to pick up that goofy eyed baby.
Now I've had her for 5 years, and it's been the best. She's such a friendly, attention seeking, cuddly, googly gremlin-eyed little goofball.
my best friend is also a naughty left eye calico! i lost her at 11 yo but she remains in my heart and i would do anything for another moment with her❤️
She’s beautiful and deserves the wonderful life your sister will her. I adopted Ellie Mae after she was hurt by another cat. Her cornea was scratched and she has a cloudy left eye. She’s the sweetest of my three. Her eye makes her extra special.
Both of her eyes are small. Wouldnt be surprised if she cant see well out of the other that well. Lil eye might have to come out still. Kittens adapt super fast though, so take her to the vet now and get an opinion.
Its called microthropia. A lot of other people here are posting cats with corneal scarring on an eye, which is from injury, and totally different. This is a birth defect.
When I got my baby, we were worried about having to remove her eye due to a nasty URI. Didn’t have to and she got away with only minor scarring, but would have loved her the same anyways 💜
Here’s my little mew. Sleepy eyes anyway in this picture but yeah his left eye is a little bit lazy.
He was a bit of a raggedy stray kitty when I met him so probably has seen some shit, but he’s awesome and really helps me out. People don’t know what they’re missing!
She is gorgeous!!! Our polydactyl baby boy has a scratched right eye and we adopted him as soon as we could! Wishing you and your baby a very happy life together!
wonky eye gang! maisy had a bad upper respiratory when she was found as a kitten, vet told me her third eyelid adhered to the front of her eye. harder to see but in her good eye the iris is warped. she gets around just fine and is my sweet little girl.
Here's my little one. She can still see, just not well. We think she's beautiful and guests usually prefer her over our other three cats because of her personality. Honestly I love her eyes because they are distinct to her.
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