00:00She was comparable to the size of a phone charger.
00:04Mouth was born to a litter who ended up being the extreme runt.
00:09Oh, she's so fast.
00:11When she finally came into my arms, she was eight weeks old, but she was truly the size
00:17and the weight of an emaciated three-week-old.
00:21The crazy face.
00:23She literally fit in the palm of your hand.
00:26She was half the size of a water bottle.
00:29She was the perfect size of a lunchbox apple.
00:34And the struggle that people don't recognize is that she was micro.
00:40Essentially, she was not expected to live past the first six months of life because of her
00:46size.
00:47Despite Mouse's tiny statute, she came fully loaded with the sassma attitude of a teenager.
00:55Ow!
00:57She was ready to throw paws with anyone that came her way.
01:02Anything that moved was fair game.
01:04It wasn't too long after Mouse had entered my life that she met her match with Coraline.
01:10Coraline's eyes were ruptured.
01:13Within 24 hours, we had her into our vet to get her eyes removed.
01:18In hours of coming home, she was already ready to take on the world.
01:22This little girl.
01:23It was as though she knew that she had a life to live that was going to be better and bigger
01:31than the life she had with eyes.
01:32Although she had a few stumbling tumbles down the stairs.
01:36There's the ground.
01:37Good job.
01:38Oh!
01:39See?
01:40There you go.
01:41Quick.
01:42Okay.
01:43Wow, we're doing it.
01:44Oh God.
01:45There she is.
01:46She learned how to conquer those stairs as though she could see exactly what she was doing.
01:50Do you want Coraline to come out and play?
01:52Coraline.
01:53Most of these accomplishments were in thanks to Mouse being her seeing eyes.
01:59These maniacs are pure entertainment.
02:02If you didn't know Coraline was blind, you would think she was just a normal cat.
02:07Mouse knows that she's not.
02:09And Mouse will, time and time again, show her things without her having to see things.
02:15Hi, girl.
02:19She has guided her to an open window so that Coraline could smell outside.
02:24And I think Mouse knows that she can't see, but she knows that there's still smells.
02:31Are you guys best friends right now?
02:34You got her, Mouse.
02:36Coraline, what you going to do about that?
02:40Good morning, Mouse.
02:42Good morning, Coraline.
02:44For me, the connection that I felt with Mouse and Coraline
02:48was different from any other cat I've ever fostered out of the five or six hundreds
02:53that have come through my home.
02:54And then one day, I remember just looking at them and saying,
02:57these are my cats.
03:02So I've currently got Coraline's leash and Coraline has Mouse's leash.
03:07They just have such a blast together.
03:11They always find a way to make everything they do chaotic.
03:18It's not uncommon to see Mouse grooming Coraline, but Coraline learned from Mouse
03:27that grooming is a sign of affection.
03:29So not only do they groom each other, Coraline now grooms me.
03:32I love you, Coraline.
03:35It's so unique to watch the relationship that they have.
03:38Even though they are not from the same litter, they do not have the same history of deficits.
03:44They understand each other and Coraline accepts that Mouse is there to take care of her.
03:51Mouse and Coraline have always been special and unique and seeing them now almost a year later
03:59and the cats that they've blossomed into is a testament to why I do what I do with fostering.
04:07They continue to amaze me and encourage me to keep fostering because I know
04:14that there are other Mouse and Coralines out there that somebody else will be able to adopt
04:19and love the same way that I do.
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