I'm so glad you scooped up this little one and are ready to introduce it to a better life. That's a very lucky kitten. I was looking through the special needs cats in my area on PetFinder yesterday and found a rescue out in farming country that had rescued kittens from a farmer that subscribed to the rural method of "shoot, shovel and shut up". He'd already shot the mother and about 9 kittens. It must be the same in your area as in the Olney, Illinois area where ReachOutRescue saved 12 kittens, they let them breed because they find them useful in keeping down rodents and then simply kill the excess. These people seem to have no idea that each cat is an individual with its own personality.