In the past several weeks our cat has developed facial cancer. She is coughing blood and wheezes and a few days ago went blind. I don't know how much time she has. At the moment, we are keeping her safe and near food and water. We truly feel for her and want to make her last few weeks or months enjoyable, a task that is now more difficult with her being blind because she can't go outside and visit the neighbor cats and such. Our home schedule is tremendously busy with work and school so the cat is alone during the day and at night she is confined to a small area she feels comfortable with which further reduces her interactions with us. I was thinking of getting her a companion like a guinea pig or something so she is not all alone so much now that she is less mobile. I'm just not sure if this is a good idea or something to avoid. The reason for a guinea pig (or something small like that) is because we could confine it to the same areas as the cat. Currently our cat stays in a small room blocked by a fence and because she is blind she won't take the chance of jumping it. And before anyone comments about the cruelty of this, we decided to do this after we found her lost and confused. The blindness is new to her and she had wandered outside through the cat flap and couldn't find her way back. So, we setup her food, water, and litter box inside in an area she is comfortable with. She is getting weaker and is declawed so I don't think she would kill a small companion; we had sugar gliders at one time and she was amused with them. Anyway, I was just curious if anyone has done something similar and what their experiences were.
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