Four Eared Cat Anyone?

[WhiteDove]

Four-eared kitten seeking good home

'Lilly' perfectly healthy and able to hear

Michaela Rehle / Reuters

Lilly, a 6-month old black and white house cat with four ears, is healthy and can hear perfectly well -- but only through the front pair.

Updated: 12:33 p.m. ET March 24, 2004BERLIN - A kitten born with four ears is desperately seeking a new home because her owners can’t afford to have her neutered, German animal shelter officials said on Wednesday.

Six-month-old Lilly, born on a farm in the southern state of Bavaria, has an extra pair of slightly smaller, non-hearing ears just behind the normal two. Vets attribute the phenomenon to a gene mutation.

“We want to find Lilly the loving home she deserves. She is very kind and not a monster,” said an employee at a sanctuary caring for Lilly and her nine normal brothers and sisters.

Farmers often give kittens away rather than pay to have them neutered to avoid over-breeding, sanctuary officials said.

Lilly would be neutered and available to a new owner around two weeks later, they said.

“She is healthy and can hear perfectly well but only through the front pair,” said Tessy Loedermann, from the animal protection group in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which runs the home.

“It often happens with animals’ feet when the cells form in an unusual way. But I have never ever seen it with ears before,” she said.

Edited March 25, 2004 by Guest

[sadie]

WD, what a precious little kittie.

[vickles]

aaawwwww what a sweet looking kitty.

[WhiteDove]

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - 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.

“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 Thursday.

“We’ve found a completely normal family for her that has already adopted cats from us in the past.”

[Dot Matrix]

She looks like the cat version of the flying nun :)-->

[papajohn]

I'd love to have her. she'd be a good match for my 3 legged cat, PoohCat