This Cat Was Born With Two Bent Legs, but She Will Make You So Happy!

[joeybee12]

With legs so oddly contorted, you’d think that this little kitty would have problems getting around on her own. According to Amber Holly, it’s quite the contrary!

Holly is the owner and operator of the Saving Grace Rescue, a facility located in the Bay area of San Francisco, California. The non-profit aims to find forever homes for kittens under the age of eight weeks or any feline that has special needs requiring extra attention. Seeing as how the rescue has helped with 3000 kitten and cat adoptions, we’d say Holly’s goal has been pretty successful!

Through her work, Holly discovered Kanga, a sweet little kitten born with radial agenesis. This condition is genetic and shortens a cats radius–the long bone between a cat’s elbow and wrist. Cats with this condition tend to support themselves on their back legs so that harmful stress is not placed on their spine. This posture is what led RA felines to be referred to as “kangaroo cats,” and it also inspired the naming of Kanga!

According to Holly, Kanga “gets around great and is a happy girl,” despite her leg condition.



http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/this-cat-was-born-with-two-bent-legs-but-she-will-make-you-so-happy/

[Xyzse]

1. Very cute... Reminds me of the little critters from cartoons.

Especially in Anime, where it is some little pet-type companion that sits on the MC's shoulder.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. what a little cutie-pie!

[Blue Owl]

3. We still love you honey!

[narnian60]

4. Oh, my.

Anyone that works to help precious animals like this is so freaking special.

[hifiguy]

5. Well, the cute/adorable meter just blew out of the wall.

Have a good life, little one.

[shenmue]

7. Warning: Cute Alert. Levels above a jillion.

[ReverendDeuce]

6. Serious question... medically related

Not that I would want to interfere with Kanga as she's adorable, but I wonder if there's a possible medical treatment for this kind of issue such as an artificial radial implant.

I can imagine that a radius that has grown too short could be augmented with internal fixation to correct the mutation, but a completely missing or undeveloped radius? That would be interesting and fascinating.

(I get curious about this stuff because I had a bad ankle injury and have a plate and screws holding my fibula together, so in my downtime I read a _ton_ about how bones heal and other research being done into corrective surgeries.)

[joeybee12]

8. I'd bet it may have been tried, however, there can't be

much call for it since I'd bet most people aren't willing to do that kind of surgery on their cat...much less on a rescue one so it would be experiemntal...that's my guess.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. Yes, it can be fixed -

This is Lil' Bear who suffered from the same disease. He had surgery and you can hardly tell he had an issue --

https://www.facebook.com/reformedlegs?fref=ts