It’s hard to sit by and watch while others are in need, especially after devastation like the tornadoes in Oklahoma last weekend, Hurricane Sandy last autumn, and each successive year’s violent weather events, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural and man-made disasters. If we’re trained responders it makes perfect sense to
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It’s not a joke, Henry really did walk into a meeting I was attending and proceeded to get himself rescued and subsequently adopted. On a mild and misty spring evening, May 8, 2008 to be exact, I met with the board of a community conservation organization to review the illustrations
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Sometimes, even though you’ve done your best to rescue kittens from a bad situation, you don’t succeed, and you never forget the ones you couldn’t catch. In this case I did manage to catch two out of five, and also have my left hand deeply punctured at the knuckle by
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The photo of exquisitely cute kittens above is not gratuitous—two of them are up for adoption, and you can read about them below! But they help to draw attention to a week set aside for recognizing the need to be kind to animals, all animals, cute kittens and injured opossums
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You can read part one of this story at “My First Litter”, Part One. When we left off Zosia had been uneventfully installed in the spare bedroom with food and litter, and we were waiting for kittens… . . . . . . . No kittens were born that first
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You may have read a story here on The Creative Cat that begins: One night in early April, 1988, still with patches of snow on the frozen earth, a very small, very pregnant cat politely but confidently asked me if she could come into my home to give birth to
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Most rescue stories are pretty dramatic and any humor one can find is usually an offbeat detail of an otherwise grim story. But every once in a while there’s a rescue that’s just plain silly. After so many stories of cats and kittens brought back from the brink of death,
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Pretty Mama Kitty is all done with having babies now and needs a new home! If a kitty ever needed a kind and understanding home, it’s Mama Kitty. This kitty lived outside for most of her life, giving birth to, at best guess, four litters of kittens on someone’s porch.
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Just about a year ago to the day I looked at Kelly and decided her story needed to be told for my Tuesday rescue story. Just two weeks after we’d lost Cookie, Kelly and I were finally feeling comfortable with being at our desk without her, Kelly settling on my
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The thermometer registered 8 degrees this morning as the sun finally rose on a frosty morning in my neighborhood. And there were fresh feline pawprints in the light dusting of snow across the yard and up the steps to my deck along with prints embedded in the ice underneath. It
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