One-eyed kitten with cleft lip finds new 'forever home' with brother

A tiny rescue kitten with one eye and a cleft lip who is four times smaller than his brother has found his forever home after being fostered by two cat-lovers.

The pair were handed in to local council authorities along with their feline parents in November but they were re-homed thanks to the RSPCA.

A veterinary check revealed that ginger kitten Benny, who was thought to be 12 weeks old, was in good health despite suffering blindness in one eye and a cleft lip, though he was extremely small for his age.

He was fostered along with his brother Teddy, who was four times his size, by Sam Dye and Hannah Grimwood in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

The couple already have other rescue cats and said the new additions were mingling well.

Mr Dye said: “They’re wonderful cats, really spectacular. We definitely made the right choice and they have settled in so well."

Along with Benny and Teddy, the couple also have three other cats, Charlie, a seven-year-old female cat, Tony, who is completely blind and rescued from Dubai, and Merlin who was adopted from Cats Protection.

Mr Dye said that it was love at first sight when they saw Benny and Teddy online.

“We were sitting on the sofa and Hannah saw a Facebook post about them," he said.

"We knew we had to have them. They looked lovely and like they would fit in well with our other cats and nice for Tony to have another partially sighted cat as Benny has one eye.

"I was working in Hertfordshire at the time and not too far from the branch so I was able to visit and collect them.

Asked if the couple would foster any more cats, Mr Dye said: “We live on a farm so there is plenty of room - if I could have more I would but there’s not enough room in the bed!

"They all sleep on the bed with us, in between me and my partner.”

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