"There was a cat that was found pregnant walking around a junkyard, it may have been somewhere in New York, and brought to a municipal shelter; this pregnant cat was about to be euthanized. North Shore Animal League rescued her, and she gave birth at North Shore Animal League to four kittens. She was a wonderful mother, and we soon found out she was blind, but a wonderful mother to her kittens.
"Once her kittens had enough of her nurturing — after five weeks they can be separated from the mother — I took her babies, fostered them, and found wonderful homes for them. Then I went back, and I picked up the momma. She was a foster of ours. I took her to many eye specialists, and she had to have one of her eyes removed. She can detect shadows out of the existing eye, but she is definitely blind.
"It came to the point where I felt she was ready to go, and I remember having dinner with my husband, and he looked at me and said, 'Bella's not going anywhere, is she?' And I said no. She was a foster failure, and she's been with us for two years now. She is my love. She is a wonderful cat."
