My Cat's Eyes Are Almost Always Dilated

This is what is happening with your cat it seems to me.

My cat's eyes are almost always dilated. It can also be a display of surprise or fear depending on the situation. Blindness can occur suddenly in your cat and the cat can show different signs such as bumping into furniture and dilated pupils that remain the same even in the lightVision loss may have various causes that can include high blood pressure diabetes heart or kidney problems. If you have a cat with one dilated and one is not there are a number of things that could be wrong.

However excitement does not always happen because of positive stimuli since it can also oc. Constant dilation of cats eyes can be a sign of pain overstimulation or age-related atrophy. Our Zebulons pupils never close to a slit like normal cats pupils do in bright light.

By studying your cats eyes along with her body language. If you notice your cat has dilated pupils move him to a source of light or shine a torch in the eyes to see if they constrict go smaller. Dilated pupils are another source of understanding the meaning of cats mysterious eyes and often indicate an excited cat.

So I was just googling why my little boy Sebastians eyes never become slits. Cats eyes should dilate periodically so its a real concern if the pupils never contract. Bear has always talked a lot since he was a kitten.

Now a more thoughtful answer found through google. High blood pressure also called hypertension is the most common reason why your cats eyes are always dilated. Diseases such as kidney or thyroid disease can cause hypertension leading to blindness.

This can be very serious because the fixed dialated unresponsive eye can be signaling a stroke or impending kidney or liver failure. At best theyre almond shape in bright light. Hes almost 2 I rescued him at Proximately 8 weeks and Ive just realized his pupils never become slits like all my other cats have done over the years.