Meet Wonder...

Wonder (aka Stevie Wonder), came to us as a stray.  I (Sara) was driving down the road just after pulling out of my driveway and I discovered Wonder walking up the middle of the road.  Cars were swerving around him and honking but Wonder didn't even flinch, he just kept walking.  I stopped my car in the road and watched as Wonder almost walked right into the tire!  It was then that I realized that Wonder was blind. 

I jumped out of my car and approached Wonder slowly and cautiously, not knowing if he was friendly.  Slowly, I reached out and touched the back of his head.  He immediately responded to my touch and arched his back so my hand ran all the way down.  Thankfully, he was friendly.  I scooped him up and put him in my car and took him home. 

The next day he went to the vet for a check up and Rabies vaccination.  Other than a flea infestation, he was determined to be in good health.  The vet said he was old, blind, and almost completely deaf.  Obviously he had been someone's pet because he wasn't skinny, was already neutered, and was well socialized with people.  The vet staff gave him the name Wonder.  Apparently they felt it was better than the "Blind, Deaf, Kitty" that I had dubbed him. 

Wonder came home with me and over the course of the next three days I noticed that he was drinking an excessive amount of water and urinating so much that his litter box was quickly saturated.  A trip back to the vet for bloodwork and the grim news that Wonder was in Kidney failure.  I guess that explains why a blind, deaf, cat was left to fend for himself outside.  He was probably dumped on my property the night before and wandered off before I noticed him.  Poor Wonder. 

The vet prescribed antibiotics, supplements and a prescription diet and Wonder came back home.  He is responding well on his special food and had already stopped drinking excessively.  Wonder will stay at Happy Whiskers until we have to make that very hard decision to humanely end his life.  For now he isn't suffering and is enjoying getting to know his doggie friends.  He navigates around the house with surprising skill, using his whiskers to tell him when he is close to an object.  The dogs have taken to him well although they give him funny looks when he accidentally miscalculates and runs into one of them! :-)