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This ‘Kitten’ Had No Fur and Barely Moved — But It Turned Out to Be Something Much Rarer

When Melissa from Pinebrook Animal Rescue arrived to investigate a strange creature hiding beneath a porch, she expected a sick, hairless cat. But as she crouched beside it, flashlight trembling in her hand, her breath caught. “It looked like something out of a science fiction film,” she later said. “Hairless. Wrinkled. Eyes too big for its face. You’d think it was a kitten at first glance, but the proportions were… off.” She reached out slowly, heart pounding, as the creature blinked up at her—and that’s when she realized it wasn’t a cat at all…

When the call came into Pinebrook Animal Rescue at 6:42 a.m., the voice on the other end was shaky.

“There’s something… alive, I think,” the woman whispered. “It’s hairless, trembling, and hiding under my porch. I thought it was a sick cat, but—something’s not right.”

Rescue coordinator Melissa Hart expected to find a Sphynx—a breed occasionally abandoned due to its high-maintenance needs. But what she discovered huddled beside a cracked flowerpot left her breathless.