This link was posted at another site (Jackie's site to be specific). OK, German friends, someone needs to go get her!!!!! :)
MSNBC story about 4 eared kitten
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This link was posted at another site (Jackie's site to be specific). OK, German friends, someone needs to go get her!!!!! :)
MSNBC story about 4 eared kitten
Aww she's so cute! I hope she's able to find a good home. But I'm sure with all the publicity, she'll find a good home quickly.
She's adorable!!! Talk about airplane ears though - permanent ones. :D :D
I'm sure she'll find a wonderful home with all the publicity. Let me see.....Munich isn't far from Bavaria is it? ;) :D
That's what I was thinking, Debbie!!!! :)
Aww she is so adorable. I hope she finds a permanent home soon.
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Originally posted by Logan
That's what I was thinking, Debbie!!!! :)
Filou, Tigris and.....Spot? Nah, I don't like spot, the name has to have something to do with ears.....
This is how you say "he's all ears" in German - Er ist ganz Ohr, so first of all you'd have to take out the "Er" means "he" (I think)....
Anway, I guess I'm just rambling.....tired, gotta go to bed, but it sure would be great if a certain...ahem......no names please...would adopt this little cutie. ;) :D
What an adorable little kitten! I am sure she will be snatched up quickly with the publicity ....but isn't she a dollbaby??:D
OMG she is just the cutest!!!!!! Wouldn't it be wonderful if one of our German PTérs could adopt her, and we could watch her grow up! What a special and unusual addition to Pet Talk!!
My hubby is going to Germany on Friday and I siad to him "Ï have found something for you to bring me back from your business trip" and showed him the picture......as this is a family site I wont type his response;)
My computer protects me. It broke down two times when I tried to open the site. The second time I could at least see the kitten -but I couldn't scroll anymore.
I think the purrfect name would be Yoda. I am sure among the 3,5 Mill. inhabitants of Berlin there will be a loving heart for this kitty. I don't think one of the 1 mill. Munich inhabitants has to start an eight hrs. drive to Berlin.
:p
Munich IS in Bavaria :)Quote:
Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
Munich isn't far from Bavaria is it? ;) :D
She's really cute! a Moo kitty :)
My thought exactly! And Barbara I think Yoda would be a wonderful name. :) What a cutie pie!Quote:
Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
She's adorable!!! Talk about airplane ears though - permanent ones. :D :D
:D
OMG! She is the cutest little thing! Somebody surely will snatch her up and give her a good loving home for 20 or so years.
Welllll....if I read this article correctly, Yoda is in Garmish which is closer to the Munich which is in Bavaria than to Berlin!
Hmm, Garmisch is much closer. But I start to be afraid it's a hoax.
I tried to search the web for many terms that could mean "cat with 4 ears" in German or to search at Reuters together with name of the person who took the picture and I find nothing.
I couldn't read something in the newspapers here as well.
So there may be no time to worry my boys yet;)
She is such a Doll , and The Found Cats want her , until I explained that getting her here , meant no More Whiskas Temptations!Then they are Praying for A Good German Furr Ever Home!
That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure and I didn't have my handy dandy map near by to check. Hey, at least I knew they were in the same vicinity. :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally posted by Vio&Juni
Munich IS in Bavaria :)
Awww...come on Barbara, you know she'd be a great addition. Filou would have somebody to play with so Tigris doesn't have to get up as often. ;) :D
Hey guys, the kitty has a home now. :D Germany would'nt
let her go. :)
Oddly Enough - Reuters
Four-Eared Kitten Finds 'Normal' Home
Thu Mar 25,10:09 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Sabine Neubert
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - A four-eared German kitten has been given a new home after a German animal shelter was deluged with requests to adopt the animal born six months ago with the genetic defect.
Reuters Photo
"We wanted to make sure the people were looking for a normal cat and not a gag to make an exhibition out of her," Enrico Schlag, a worker at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen animal shelter, said on Thursday.
"We've found a completely normal family for her that has already adopted cats from us in the past."
The shelter in the foothills of the Alps in southern Germany received dozens of calls after local media published pictures of Lilly. Reuters, which reported the kitten's search for a home on Wednesday, also received numerous offers from readers around the world eager to adopt her or make donations to the shelter.
Tessy Loedermann, head of the shelter, said Lilly will first be neutered and held at the shelter for another two weeks.
Loedermann said the black-and-white cat with the extra set of ears was "not a freak" but rather an energetic, loving and well-adjusted kitten.
"She is not a mutant," Loedermann said. "She's just a plain and ordinary kitten."
Lilly, born on a farm near the winter resort town famous for hosting the 1936 Winter Olympics (news - web sites), has an extra pair of slightly smaller, non-hearing ears just behind the normal two. Vets have attributed the phenomenon to a gene malfunction.
"The front ears are completely normal while the two ears directly behind them are about half the size and not fully developed," Schlag said.
She was given to the shelter last week because the family had more cats than they could care for.
"We're trying to treat her as a completely normal kitten and the other cats here have played with her in a normal manner as well," Schlag said. "She hasn't been ostracized by the other cats at all. She's a bundle of energy but likes to be cuddled."
Ok - I was sure it would end up like this. I am happy for Lilly.
If I didn't know that at PT stories can come true I would say that I'd love to adopt Lucky and Chance or a Bahraini Dilmun. But as I know that strange things might happen if I said it I won't say that:D ;) :rolleyes:
Barbara - how many would you like?????;) ;) ;)
What a great happy ending. And I am very glad that she went to a "Normal"cat-friendly house - I would have been worried that she would have been adopted only for her unusual features, but it seems the shelter have done a great job selecting her new family!