The sad story of little blind Ninja touched many hearts.
But there was only one person brave enough to make the step towards her.
Rozetta Bicheva is the new owner of tiny Nina, and this here is her message to all the people, afraid to adopt a crippled animal:
What it’s like to be a cripple…
It is a label we put on people and animals around us whenever they are out of our public physical or mental normality. Few of us have given a thought to the many abilities nature have given us to compensate any shortages and keep us balanced with ourselves and the world around us.
In my life I have many times been in contact with people who had a physical disability and I have always admired their spirit and lust for life, the understanding they have of others. The MAN of the highest quality I know had been bound to a wheelchair since he was 19, but that hadn’t stopped him to become one of the best math professors in Bulgaria and help thousands of young people get into the University.
When it comes to animals a disability is usually a death sentence with a delayed execution. At least for the ones out there in the streets… But the animals that lack one thing – can always compensate with another and lead a normal life. All they need is someone to help them out at the beginning, to love and support them. And assist them, of course. Just the things a human would need. Just the feelings and attention any of us need in our lives, whether healthy or not.
When I read Nini’s story my first and immediate thought was: I want to adopt her! But, after I read the Facebook comments I was left with the impression she was already rehomed…
Thank God I decided to try and call anyway, just to be on the safe side.
Now, in my living room, happy and comfortable on my couch, I have a sleeping sweetie – a brave and playful soul. Who, despite the blindness has fit in perfectly to the new environment. She brings confusion to the calm spinster environment of noble ladies Lora and Misha. And she teaches us all not to complain when we fall (which happens to her quite often), but to shake it off quickly and go on with what we were planning. Because that is the only way to achieve what we want. And in the case of Nina (she is slightly renamed) – it is a new friend, ort a toy, or her food bowl in the other side of the living room. The girl has an astounding appetite and is full of energy. We all enjoy her, her infectious liveliness, her perseverance and creativity to manage any obstacle.
Perhaps every person needs at least one disabled friend – to at least learn to appreciate their own luck…