A kitten that was born neither male nor female has found its fur-ever home in the North East, despite adoption enquiries from the USA.
The team at Cats Protection's Tyneside Adoption Centre in Felling, Gateshead, were blown away by the reaction from around the world when they put Hope, a 15-week-old kitten born without any external or internal sexual organs, up for adoption. The charity received press coverage on UK national news and even in the New York Post, with adoption enquiries coming all over the UK and even from Sacramento in California.
However, Hope has been rehomed in the North East with student and Cats' Protection care assistant Jessi Bennett. 22-year-old Jessi, who is studying for a masters degree in Animal Behaviour at Newcastle University, couldn't be happier with her "wriggliest, craziest" little kitten, who she has been tentatively introducing to her six-month old Bengal cat, Mobius.
