Rescue Kitten Needs Cleft Palate Surgery

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Justin has a hard luck story, but things are looking up for the tiny kitten with the big eyes and even bigger heart.
"Considering everything that’s happened to him, there’s got to be a reason he’s alive," said Linda Brackett, president of the Nemasket Orphaned Animal Haven (NOAH), a Raynham non-profit cat rescue organization.

The 7-week-old black-and-brown tiger-striped kitten with the soulful blue eyes was born with a cleft palate that will eventually take his life if not surgically corrected, a veterinarian told Brackett on Wednesday, June 25.

But that life-threatening medical condition was just the beginning of the little fellow’s woes.

A Raynham resident found him curled up in the middle of the road on Pleasant Street a few weeks ago, extremely dehydrated, barely able to breath due to an upper respiratory infection, his eyes nearly glued shut from conjunctivitis — just 4 weeks old and tipping the scales at all of 14 ounces.

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