A stray, blind kitten is getting the second chance at life he deserves after he was adopted by his new forever family in an Idaho town.
Ray Charles the kitten was brought to the Pocatello Animal Shelter by a good Samaritan after he was found under a truck in late April.
"He was too friendly to be a stray. He belonged to someone at some time," Mary Remer, director of Pocatello Animal Shelter, told Idaho State Journal. "He had a terrible infection in his eyes, and to save him, we had to remove both of his eyes."
Ray Charles' surgery was funded by Friends of the Pocatello Animal Shelter's "Second Chance Fund."
The kitten's new family, who has another cat for Ray Charles to spend his days with, instantly fell in love with him when they met.
"While we were looking at the kittens, he came over and stuck his little paw out for us," Jessica Hope, Ray Charles' new human mom told Idaho State Journal. "We came home, and we just couldn't stop thinking about him, and we were worried about whether or not he would get adopted."
The family knew that Ray Charles was blind from the beginning, and reportedly said they were up for the challenge of raising a disabled pet.
"Blind cats do not know they are blind, they know they are cats," said the Blind Cat Rescue. "They act like cats. Blind cats can do pretty much everything that a seeing cat can do. They can climb trees, climb up on to the top of cabinets and get into places that you can not figure out how they did it."
