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Oh, shit! I think I may have blinded my cat.
I got a new arc-welding machine this week, and I've been trying to get used to it. I was doing some with it this evening, and as I flipped up my mask, there's Melinda sitting there, looking at what I was doing.
Oh, shit.
After I put everything away, she's walking across the floor and ran face-first into a blanket hanging down from her and Katie's (the senior cat) couch.
Oh, shit.
I pulled out the 'cat toy' from my pocket and tested her vision. Her peripheral vision works just fine, but she seems not to be able to see from her central vision. What she would have been looking at the arc with. I may have arc-blinded her. Permanent damage certainly happened, but some recovery happens in a day or two, too. We'll see... but maybe she won't.
Oh, shit.
From now on she goes into her cat-carrier and I point that so she can't "supervise" when I run the welder.
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