Posted
3/24/2004 06:27:00 PM
by Douglas
Who doesn't have enough money to have a kitten neutered, especially if he has
four ears?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 say.
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.
If ever there was a kitten that
needed to be neutered, it's Lilly. That's just wrong.
"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.