A cat name "Fedya" with a unique appearance is making waves online.

The stray had a rough start in life and was born underdeveloped, weak and sick.

Owner Natalya took him on and nursed him back to health with the help of her other cat, Karsavchik.

"We do not know why Fedya looks like this and is a little behind in development," said Natalya.

"We assume that these are complications of his condition after birth. He was very weak and was dying," she added.

27 June 2022, Rostov, Russia

This can named Fedya was born on 27 August 2019 and had a tough childhood. He was born as one of two kittens to a stray mother that found shelter in the backyard of Natalyy. Fedya was born underdeveloped, weak and sick, and the owner speculates that he’d been dropped quite a few times while he was carried over fences, which might have caused him to look the way he does. Soon after being born, he and his sibling lost their mother. The future looked bleak.

Natalya nursed Fedya back to health and took care of him, as she suspected people wouldn’t want to adopt a sick cat. After a few weeks, Natalya’s other cat named Handsome (Krasavchik) adopted Fedya as his son, and cleaned and licked him. From that point onwards, Krasavchik became a fatherly figure to the poor cat.

As for Fedya’s peculiar look, Natalya is puzzled, as there might’ve been many reasons for it. “We do not know why Fedya looks like this and is a little behind in development. We assume that these are complications of his condition after birth, he was very weak and was dying. Either that, or it’s a genetic disorder. The analysis for genetics was not done.”

Credit to: @fedja_kot

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