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Pets Make Us Human: Beloved the blind cat, by his human, Teresa.

David Oliver found the kitten feeling his way around a building at the University of Sharjah campus over the summer. The kitten appeared to have a bad eye infection. David scooped him up and took him to see Jim Bolssens at the Europets Veterinary Hospital in Sharjah. Jim could tell immediately that the kitten was blind. A neuter-and-release was obviously out of the question, so there seemed to be only one option: euthanise. Reluctant to make this decision, David asked Jim to give him the weekend to find a home for little blind cat.

I saw the kitten that weekend when I took a colony of strays in to be sterilised. Unable to stop thinking about him, I called David early Sunday morning asking if the kitten was still alive. David managed to get through to Jim just before the kitten was due to be euthanised and told him, “Wait!”. The rest is a happy ending. I called the kitten “Beloved”. He manages to get around quite well on his own and loves to be held and cuddled. He feels the face of the person holding him to get a sense of who it is.

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