Mèo con ‘Người sói con’ thay đổi màu sắc trước mắt người cứu hộ
“Không ai trong chúng ta từng thấy một bộ lông mèo con biến đổi như anh ấy!”
Emilie Rackovan gặp Fievel lần đầu khi mới 2 ngày tuổi. Chú mèo con nhỏ xíu có kích thước bằng một con chuột, vừa khít trong lòng bàn tay.
Sinh ra với một chiếc áo khoác sốt, kết quả của việc mẹ của Fievel trải qua căng thẳng dữ dội khi mang thai, anh ta bạc và nhếch nhác, giống như những gì Rackovan trông giống như một “người sói con“.
Fievel là người duy nhất trong số các anh chị em của anh sống sót sau khi mẹ anh, một con mèo hoang, sinh non và không chăm sóc mèo con. Rackovan biết rằng đó sẽ là một trận chiến khó khăn để đứa trẻ bạc trở thành một con mèo khỏe mạnh, nhưng cô có thể nói anh ta là một chiến binh.
“Những chú mèo con sinh non, nói chung, thường không qua khỏi, vì tỷ lệ cược được xếp chồng lên nhau”, Rackovan nói với The Dodo. “Anh ấy thực sự là một phép màu.”
Fievel was so small that, for the first week with his foster mom, he couldn’t drink from a bottle. Rackovan fed him by hand every hour of every day. Luckily, she wouldn’t have to shoulder the entirety of his care for long.
“I was fostering a mom and babies just about Fievel’s age for a different shelter and asked if I could try introducing Fievel to them,” Rackovan said. “I put Fievel with Persephone (the mom) and the babies, and she took to him immediately.”
Now part of a cat family, Fievel seemed at ease and quickly started to grow — and change.
Fievel’s fever coat started to grow out, revealing the kitten’s true colors. Rackovan assumed he’d be a gray and white kitten, but when Fievel was about a month old, he underwent an amazing transformation.
“I noticed the white tips on his fur starting to come through at about three weeks, but that is relatively typical of a fever coat,” Rackovan said. “Around four weeks, the roots started to turn a dark gray on his back and his legs became jet black. I still wasn’t sure if he was going to be dark gray or black.”
“He has continued to get darker and darker,” she added. “I had absolutely no idea that he was going to be a tuxedo. All of my friends who foster are equally as shocked and none of us have ever seen a kitten coat transformation like his!”
Not only has Fievel transformed on the outside, but the once timid orphan has now become a confident, young cat.
“Fievel is just the goofiest kitten ever!” Rackovan said. “He does the ‘scary cat,’ where he arches his back and hops toward you. He likes to think he’s intimidating, so I play along!”
Fievel gets along with all of Rackovan’s other foster animals and resident pets, but has a special bond with the people he meets.
“He purrs the second he sees you and also cries out whenever he can’t find me,” Rackovan said. “When I call, ‘Fievel!’ he comes sprinting and wants to be held.”
Once Fievel is neutered, he will be adopted into his forever home, where he’ll continue to surprise and delight whatever family is lucky enough to have him.
To learn more about Fievel and Rackovan’s other foster kittens, you can follow them on Instagram.