Despite The Terrible Pain, The First Thing He Did When She Picked Him Up Was Purr!

The next step for Frankie was to undergo surgery to remove that right eye.

“He would have been in a lot of pain, but the first thing he did when I picked him up was purr and rub his face on mine,” I told the girls in the vet clinic that I would foster him for recovery after his eye removal.” The surgery was successful, afterward, Georgia dubbed the one-eyed cat Frankenkitten, in a nod to the prominent stitches that now run along the side of his face.

“When I got him home, he was very dopey and in pain, but still had so much love and affection for me, the kids and other animals,” Anderson said. “By the next morning, I’d decided that I wanted to keep him.”

Anderson knew Frankie was really special, but not for any of the obvious reasons.

“I’ve probably fostered around 80 cats and kittens in the last year, and he was the first one that I knew I would regret giving back,” Georgia added.

After the shelter’s required eight-day holding period, Frankie officially joined Georgia’s raucous family, gaining three cat siblings, Toothless, Mina and Lucius Malfoy, and a beagle brother named Dudley.

Though his eye is healing quickly, Frankie is not out of the woods just yet where his health is concerned. Like other four-eared cats, who often suffer from accompanying genetic issues, such as dwarfism or cognitive disabilities, Frankie was born with a large overbite that will require extensive dental work when he gets a little older.

“We are still waiting for his adult teeth to grow (roughly another five months), but when they do, his lower canines will need removing,” Anderson said. “If they aren’t removed, they will cause damage to his palate when he closes his mouth. His upper canines should be able to remain, but they are probably going to hang out of his mouth like little vampire teeth.”

Frankie certainly stands out from the pack, but the rare genetic abnormality does not get in the way of him enjoying his kittenhood. “None of this seems to affect his playing, as he is constantly tearing around the house,” Anderson noted.

Though his mom has tried to get him to wear a specially-made eye patch, Frankie shrugs it off, preferring to wink at everyone he meets.

You can watch a short clip of Frankie and his new family below:

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