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No nose? No problem!
With just three legs, this matriarch isn’t slowing down one bit
When one of her students brought her a 10-week-old stray kitten, Cynthia Chambers could barely bring herself to look at the tiny ball of fur.
“His mouth was all bloody and red. He was just a baby,” Chambers recalls. “I was thinking, ‘When I take him to the vet, they’re going to tell me to put him down.’”
Chambers wasn’t looking to add another four-legged feline to the family anyway; she already had three other cats, not to mention four dogs. But she loves animals and has a special place in her heart for those with disabilities.
In fact, that is why Chambers’ student came to her with the kitten in the first place. Just weeks old, already covered in fleas and obviously malnourished, the kitten appeared to have some even bigger health issues and was in desperate need of someone who would help him.
“He had bone exposed on his mouth. He had no soft tissue on the top of his mouth,” says Chambers, an associate professor of special education in East Tennessee State University’s Department of Teaching and Learning. “He has no nose. It’s just the nasal passages.”
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Danika Nadzan’s journey as an animal advocate
