Meet big brother Blue and his
sisters Meadow and Little Willow, a family of three blind cats that
just got adopted by the new head of the family Catherine
Magno.
Their story starts just before the
Christmas of 2014 when the kittens were found in an abandoned
warehouse in Dubai. By then they’d already lost their sight due to
a cat flu that was left untreated by their previous owner. After
that came a stretch in a foster home. At some
point, brother Blue almost got adopted by the previous owner’s
neighbor, but the poor confused kitty couldn’t bear living without
his sisters and cried all night while searching for them. Soon they
were all reunited in the foster home until the fateful night of 19
February 2016, when Catherine took them under her wing.
“I had zero experience having
adopted my first ever rescue kitten just a couple of months prior,”
Catherine told NEWS CAT. “But their story touched
my heart so much that I couldn’t bear the thought of them put in a
cage at vet facility indefinitely or even worse.”
Catherine was worried about the
special needs of her new pet friends: “My perception was that it’s
going to not only be challenging but will also require a lot of
adjustments on my part,” but apparently it wasn’t that much
different. “The only adjustment early on was keeping everything
where it was but they are remarkably adaptive.” And as she
wonderfully put it: “Blind pets see through their hearts.”
