Oh, I get it! My guy never disappeared on me. Then about a week after he went blind I couldn’t find him. He didn’t come to eat breakfast. I looked everywhere. Then lunch time still no Sir. Then I was in the basement looking for his body, I figured he hid somewhere to die. Then I heard him meowing! I looked everywhere and finally found him up on the storage rack in the back dark corner. Somehow despite being blind he’d climbed up and found a cozy spot by the Christmas decorations. But he couldn’t see to get down. I thought of moving his litter box upstairs and keeping the basement closed off but didn’t have the heart to close off his world more than his blindness had. It never happened again. But it was only 8 months later that he crossed the rainbow bridge.