New cat parents find out their tiny rescued snow kitten has a sick and deaf brother back at the shelter, run back to adopt him and nurse him back to health: 'We couldn't pass him up'

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Dec 11, 2025 10:00 AM EST

Bonded pairs of cats might be one of the cutest, most special things that we, as humans, get to witness. It's amazing, the bond that these cats have. Bonded cat pairs treat each other like family. They treat each other like each other's other halves. We can see, even without them having to tell us, that their lives wouldn't be complete without the other. That is why it is so important to keep bonded pairs together. Because they need each other. 

It's why oftentimes shelters insist on not separating bonded pairs, because they know the importance of keeping them together. But that isn't always the case. Sometimes, they separate the kitties and carelessly send them on their separate ways. That is what happened to the two beautiful snow kitties in this story. They were bonded and separated. But the humans of the kitty that got adopted found out about the separation just in time, and they did the best thing that they could have done - they went right back and adopted their kitty's other half. Sick, hurt, and in need of much help, they took the other kitty and nursed him back to health. 

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    we found out that donut had a deaf brother X
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    we couldn't pass him up
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  • These are the kinds of adoption stories that we love to see. Not breaking up bonded pairs is important. They are part of each other's lives just as much as they are part of yours and you are part of theirs. Bringing them together, difficult as it might have been, was worth it. 

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    but when we went to get him
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    we found out that he had very crusty eyes
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    runny nose and sneezing
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    we took him to the vet
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    they told us he had cat flu
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    which I've never heard of
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    骨 but apparently is contagious
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    so we couldn't let donut
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    and pancake interact until he wasn't contagious
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    even though that was a bit stressful
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    they told us in a couple weeks
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    the symptoms would go away
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    and he'd be out of the bathroom
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    and be able to play with donut
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    but after a month and a half
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    he wasn't getting any better
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    so we decided to go to a different vet
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    for a second opinion
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    3. ww then we noticed on his chin and his paws
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    started looking weird
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    and the vet told us that he had ringworm
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    which we have no idea where he got it from
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    possibly from the first vet office
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    Cheezburger Image 10584689920
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    this wasn't great news
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    because basically
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    we had to isolate them again
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    until the ringworm was gone
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    second vet was absolutely amazing
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    they gave us different eye drops
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    made a huge difference for pancake and online
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    it says that there's nothing you could do with a virus
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    but these eye drops were magic
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    we also treated this ringworm with oral medication 100831113
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    and to avoid it spreading 83417
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    we would wash our clothes
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    everytime we went in there
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    we wiped everything down
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    and made sure
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    that everything was really
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    really clean
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  • We are so sorry that the journey with this little one was such a difficult one, that you went through so much stress and the cat went through so much pain. We can only say this: thank you. We are truly thankful for every bit of effort that you put in to make this happen. It's such a good and amazing thing to do. 

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    this is a picture of the first day we got him
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    you can see how crested his eyes were
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    this is what his eyes would look like after wiping them
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    this is him now all better
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