The Cutest Way For A Blind Cat To Tell Her Dad She’s Out Of Water

Winnie, along with her siblings, was taken by Austin Pets Alive when she was just a kitten. Her rescuers realized she was blind from birth. She was the only one born with a health problem, but that did not stop her from finding the ideal home and becoming a loving and eccentric cat.

Most days, it’s hard to tell that Winnie is blind at all. She gets around her house super well, and while she bumps into things occasionally, she never lets that slow her down even a little bit.

She has two cat siblings and two dog siblings, and all of them are very sweet and protective with her as if they understand that she’s a little different, but really, Winnie doesn’t need protecting at all.

Winnie’s father, Kristopher Smith, told The Dodo, “She’s actually the greatest in the house at collecting flies, and I’m not sure how.” “She meows normally, but she also has a chirp that she utilizes when she runs about or gets agitated, which leads me to believe she uses it as a form of sonar or echolocation.”

Winnie’s blindness does not slow her down, but it does cause her to have some peculiar habits. Because she can’t see where she’s going, she prefers to hang around in strange areas…

…and she communicates with her family in unusual ways.

Winnie observed that her water bowl appeared to be a bit empty one day. She crawled into the bowl just to make sure it was indeed empty…

… and then settled in to wait for one of her parents to bring her more water.

Smith explained, “She was sitting in the dish for a few minutes before I noticed.” “When she heard me going for the bowl, she leaped out and started chirping.”

Winnie determined the best method to have her water bowl replenished was to wait within it until her parents spotted her and came to refill it, which she did, and it worked. Winnie is blind, but she is incredibly resourceful.

Winnie’s blindness appears to have given her a sense of serenity and compassion that many other cats lack. When her mother needed brain surgery, her father believed Winnie would be the greatest person to console her, so he and Winnie devised a plan to make it happen.

Smith stated, “I convinced the nurse to let me smuggle Winnie into the ICU to visit her and she behaved fantastically.”

“I never imagined a cat, much alone a blind cat, being so relaxed in such a scenario.” She fell asleep beside her mother in the hospital bed till we had to leave.”

Since then, Winnie has also visited residents at the dementia care facility her parents work at and did a fantastic job of bringing people comfort and joy.

She may have weird ways of doing things sometimes, but Winnie’s quirks help make her into the sweet, unique cat she is, and her family wouldn’t have her any other way.

“She really is a special cat and everyone that meets her just loves her,” Smith said.