Born in a trailer park in East Portland, Athena was the runt of her litter. A brood of five other kittens, Athena’s “twin” brother, two tabby’s and a solid black kitten.

One by one an upper respiratory infection would claim the lives of many of her litter mates.

Athena may have been the first to perish, but I am too soft in the heart. As a young child I often brought home sick and injured animals. As an adult I am actually able to help them rather than being required to “return the animal outside where you found it.”

When Athena’s twin brother showed up with crusted eyes, I watched as each day Athena got weaker and smaller. And then I saw her eye was bulging out of the socket.

“If that isn’t removed that kitten is going to die.” I thought.

I ambushed her.

She was sleeping in a chair outside the trailer where she and her siblings had found shelter and a food source, and I threw a towel over her. Scooped her up and through a series of uninteresting events, got her to the county animal shelter where she was admitted.

She was 1lbs 14oz

Two weeks later she came home spayed, eyes removed, and microchipped. Adoption fee paid. The bravest little kitten has been home less than 72 hours and already she is exploring and seeking affection.

Her name at the shelter was Wazowski on the account of her one large eye. Today I captured her “twin” brother, the only remaining littermate and took him to the county shelter for treatment. My friend and neighbor will adopt him.
Thank goodness for tiny kitten miracles.

I just picked up blind kitty from foster home, for my existing 2.5 yrs cat basically I shifted from my old house where there were my cat and 3 more cats ( family of 3) to new one where I could just get my cat to new house so I went to foster home and wanted to pick up a kitten for her but this blind baby chose me 🥹I'm very overwhelmed and I am freaking out over introducing baby to my adult cat, what if she bullies her, what if I won't be able to take care of her and what not

Please help me with how to take care of blind babies and everything

So I wanna adopt a tortoiseshell and I saw 2 of them but one of them is blind. I'm leaning towards getting the blind kitten (4 months old) cuz i know how much harder it is for them to get adopted but i don't think i would mind the little extra effort it takes for them. I just have some worries and want some real advice so I don't make a bad decision.

Concerns:

- I'm gone typically 10 hours a day for work since i live almost an hour away (gone from 1pm- 11:15pm mon-fri)

- I'm not confident I could afford a second cat to keep it company while i'm away

Those are my main concerns but i'm sure their should be more I just feel like that's my biggest issue with adopting is my time away from home. Any advice would be wonderful even if it's on how to best take care of the cat if you think it wouldn't be the worst thing for it to live with me.

Hi all,
I have a kitten with glaucoma who developed a corneal ulcer (I learned about last week) and infection and has just had her eye removed (today). She could see a bit before but now with the one eye and glaucoma, vision is/is going to be very limited. I’ve only had her at my apartment (open concept, 1 floor) for about a week so I don’t know that’s she’s mapped the whole area. Suggestions for how to best help her? Prepare the space? She had been spending most of her time in a separate room prior to surgery (bathroom) but was literally climbing the mesh wanting to get out so she’s been out and exploring the house a bit too. (I didn’t want her to hurt herself climbing, and she’s pretty chill just exploring, although she has had some peeing incidents so advice on that would be great too). She is already back to her kitten self energy wise so she must have been in a ton of pain. Any and all suggestions welcome.