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Why does my blind rescue cat sneeze and have frequent ear infections?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Persian | Female | unspayed

we found a cat in a park, she was covered in dirt and mud and her eyes were closed and it had some thick brown thing we took her home with us and we gave her a bath and we called a veteranian to come and check her out he gave her some medicines for diarrhea,he said the she is completely blind.Then i noticed that when whenever she try to sniff something she seems that she is suffering and then she sneezes10+times in a row and also her ears gets inficted alot.do u think there is something serious?

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on April 27th, 2018

If you see some discharge in her nose, wipe it away. Ask your veterinarian if the medicine he gave you for the diarrhea is also working for an upper respiratory infection. If not, you may have to get antibiotics from him. You may have to bring Teena back to the vet if you find more problems. But you also have to give the medication time to work. And I suggest you give her lots of love. She can live very well being blind, cats can get used to that. They have their whiskers and whiskers on the legs to find their way around.

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