A black and white kitten was discovered alone and wondering the streets. Nothing nice awaited him in the shelter where he ended up since he looked awful.

Despite being little and weak, the kitten never gave up. Volunteers at the shelter approached neighborhood animal rights advocates in the hopes that they would help the kitten get a chance at life.

As soon as animal rights advocates Chatons Orphelins Montréal (from Montreal, Canada) realized what had happened to the infant, they promptly reacted.

“We named him Binks. He was skin and bones and weighed only 450 g,” says Celine Krom, an animal activist.

The kitten was sent to the vet. “As soon as they cleared his eyes and nose, he pounced on food – he was so hungry.”

He was picked up by foster care volunteer Jess. The cat burrowed into her hands as soon as she put him in her arms and began to purr.

The boy slept, feeling happy and loved.

Thanks to proper medical care and good nutrition, Binks began to gain weight and become stronger.

Although he has a lot of cat beds and all sorts of soft things, the kitten prefers to warm himself on the lap of his foster mother, because there he will always be stroked.