{"id":99664,"date":"2022-04-22T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-check-a-cats-vision\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:28:27","slug":"how-do-you-check-a-cats-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-check-a-cats-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you check a cat&#8217;s vision?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How do you check a cat&#8217;s vision?<\/h2>\n<p><b>How can I test my cats vision?<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Gently wave a hand towards the eye  this would cause a normal cat to blink.  <\/li>\n<li>Shine a bright focused light suddenly into the eye.  <\/li>\n<li>Shine a laser light rapidly over the floor or wall in front of your cat, or drop cotton wool balls from a height beside the cat.<\/li>\n<h2>At what age do cats go blind?<\/h2>\n<p>Just as people over the age of 40 tend to need reading glasses, the same vision changes start to develop in almost all cats <b>over the age of six. This normal change, called nuclear sclerosis, results in less flexibility of the lens, a hazy appearance, and less ability to focus on close objects.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>What can cause a cat to suddenly go blind?<\/h2>\n<p>A wide variety of conditions can precipitate sudden blindness in a cat, including <b>a burst of bleeding into the eyes interior or a traumatic blow to the head. In rare cases, a cats ingestion of an antibacterial medication called enrofloxacin has also been shown to damage the feline retina and cause sudden blindness.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you check a cat&#8217;s vision? How can I test my cats vision? Gently wave a hand towards the eye this would cause a normal cat to blink. Shine a bright focused light suddenly into the eye. Shine a laser light rapidly over the floor or wall in front of your cat, or drop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}