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Show Aaron and Sunny share common bond mammmmmimmmmmwmm9mmmmmmmmwmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmW By CHERIE HUBER "You know what's so special about ab-out this cat?" Aaron Cannon likes to ask visitors, "He's blind, just like me." Aaron has been blind since birth. He had often told his mother that while he liked her cats, he wished she could And a blind cat for him. His request made its way to the list that Lyn Bradak of Farmington, of Help Save the Animals, keeps of people looking for pets. When a Clearfield woman mentioned that she had a kitten that was born blind, Aaron and the kitten were matched up. Aaron named the cat Sunny because be-cause his mother told him that yellow yel-low and white were sun colors. Sunny uses his keen sense of hearing hear-ing to keep track of what's going on in the Cannon home. At five months, he is still a kitten who likes to play, so he tracks the other cats for a satisfying tussle from tune to time. He also enjoys chasing feet and playing with Aaron, who has learned to be calm and careful with animals. Sunny is strictly an indoor cat, so he has to stay behind when Aaron visits his neighborhood friends. Aaron counts driveways to find the right house when he goes out to play. Thi s year Aaron will be a second grader in the new West Clinton Elementary School, and his brother Eric will be in the third grade. Before school starts, Denise Doebeling, a vision and mobility itinerant from North Salt Lake, will help him get acquainted with the new school. Aaron, who reads braille and types using a brailler, gets very good grades. He is also Aaron Cannon and his cat Sunny were both born blind. They were brought together through Help Save the Animals, which runs an adoption service for cats. trying to teach the neighborhood children to read braille. - At least once or twice a month he sings with the Fraternal Order of the Eagles to raise money for guide dogs for the blind. Otherwise, one of his favorite games is to play disc jockey. He plays the music, does the commercials and makes other announcements. To keep it authentic, authen-tic, he asks his sisters to pretend to phone-in requests. |