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Just found out she has detached retina in both eyes, she will inevitably go blind in the near future.

Anyone have experience of blind cats? We're told that if we don't move the furniture around too much she can be a happy indoor cat.

We had a cat called Tuli when I was a lad. She was hit by a car when she was 7 and was totally blind as a result. She was epic! Could walk along a 2" wide 6' fence while negotiating tree branches and stuff. She used to sit in the garden twitching her ears around like radar when the local birds landed nearby and taunted her. All good fun til she nailed two of them one afternoon like a blind boss! If you picked her up in one room and put her down in another she'd sit and suss her location out using cat ninja skills, air currents and whisker dexterity and then just wander off like it was no big thing. On the rare occasion that she got startled she'd run into something, but that was groovy cos she developed this nifty nose sensitivity / awesome reflexes / neck recoiling skill so she never twonked her pretty features.

I loved that cat. She lived long and used to perch on my chest each night giving it the biggun purring like a tractor. Only time she got in a flap was if someone tried to help her or guide her due to her blindness. She didn't like that (patronising and distracting).

So in answer to your concerned question Neu, be sympathetic and sorry for your kitty but don't stress it, she'll be all over that shit within months. Cats are amazing.