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Omaha Steve

(99,655 posts) Fri Aug 14, 2015, 08:42 PM Aug 2015

Luna -Our Special Needs Child kitty rescue by Sunel Pretoria, South Africa

http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/story/luna-our-special-needs-child037?

During 2013 my now husband and I decided to move in together. The idea was to get a kitten and bring my dachshund with us to our new home in Pretoria. My dachshund, Kiemie, unfortunately did not cope without having me around during the day, and we decided to give her back to my parents, who work better hours than we do. So, in order to get my mind off of everything my now husband decided to get a second kitten.

One lady at my mother's school had 11 kittens at her home. 5 were her own cat's, and 6 were orphaned kittens whose mother, a feral that had pitched up at her doorstep abandoned (she still lives with this lady). So mother number one had taken on to raise 11 kittens and when we arrived we struggled choosing one for ourselves. The smallest one stood out for my husband, and since I had chosen our first kitten, he had first option. He absolutely fell in love with this one. She was extremely small and black and white. Her head looked to big for the rest of her face and features, but nonetheless we took her home. Upon examination the vet revealed that he thought she might have suffered a loss of oxygen during birth and that she was developing slower than normal kittens her age. So she became my project. I spent hours teaching her how to climb over walls, how not to get stuck in trees and her sister tried to teach her how to hunt (that lesson is still in progress). Ironically she became my little girl and her sister became her father's girl, but Luna have proven to be extremely lovable. When all the other cats are playing outside she will be sleeping next to us on the couch and she will barely leave your side. She cannot hunt (she is now 2.5 years old), but what she lacks in skills she makes up in the large amount of cuddles that she is willing to give away for free.

Sunel
Pretoria, South Africa

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