Cute Special Needs Cat With Mucolipidosis Finds Home With The Vet Student Who Helped Save Her Life!

The first time we saw Mouse, it was in a post Melissa, mom of Sasha and Lux, two special needs cats we’ve featured in the past, shared on Instagram. At the time, Melissa and Heidi, Mouse’s mom, thought Mouse, like Sasha and Lux, had mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS), an extremely rare and serious condition. Because most people have never heard of MPS, we’ve featured multiple cats with various types of mucopolysaccharidoses in an effort to raise awareness about this group of inherited metabolic diseases. We reached out to Heidi - who is a veterinary student - to see if she’d like to feature Mouse, and while she agreed, she wanted to wait until she received confirmation of this suspected diagnosis.
Eventually, the results were in, and Mouse was actually diagnosed with mucolipidosis type II, or I-cell disease. Mucolipidoses, like MPS, is a group of inherited metabolic diseases, and we were eager for Heidi to share details about it with us. Not only did Heidi tell us about mucolipidosis type II, or ML II, and how it affects Mouse, but she also shared how she ended up adopting this adorable special needs cat in April 2022, circumstances that were very similar to how we adopted Mittens, our first CH kitty who inspired us to start Meow As Fluff after losing him shortly before his third birthday. We also discovered that while ML II definitely impacts Mouse’s mobility, like pretty much all of the special needs cats we’ve featured over the last six years, she’s still a pretty typical cat in spite of her condition.
We’re very grateful to Heidi for taking time out from her studies to share Mouse’s story with us, and we hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as we did!
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