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| Name: |
Lucky
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Age: |
Thirteen weeks old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Breed: |
Domestic Shorthair
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| Home: |
Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA
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Lucky
is special just because he is alive - despite all the odds
stacked against him. He was the only survivor of a litter of kittens
that apparently was just tossed out on a mountain road. A co-worker
miraculously spotted him sitting in the middle of the road late one
night. He searched with a flashlight for other kittens and the mother
cat, but all the others had been killed and the mother was never
found. He brought the tiny, matted orphan to work in a box early the
next morning. The kitten was very weak and malnourished,
approximately three weeks old. I rushed him to my Vet, who found him
to have ear mites, conjunctivitis, worms, and also put him on
antibiotics and kept him overnight for observation. Weighing barely
eight ounces, he was quite traumatized and missed his mother
terribly.
Today, Lucky loves to be held and is the most
affectionate of all my cats. He learned his name within days and
comes running at dinner time, now weighing a hefty four pounds three
ounces Just this week he passed the FeLV (feline leukemia) test and
so will be able to stay with our other six cats. They are all
strictly indoor cats -- spayed/neutered and de-clawed (front claws
only) and they share our home with two Black Miniature Schnauzers
named Gordon & Spencer.
(Gordon
was featured Pet of the Day on March 10th, 1998.)
One great hope is that this Internet site will
help to educate humanity on the importance of spaying and neutering
their pets. All my "rescue cats," now aged one to four
years old, got off to pretty hopeless beginnings... but they have
turned into beautiful, affectionate, and intelligent members of our
family. Each one of them has a very distinctive personality and
friendly disposition, although most of them are extremely shy of
outsiders and will hightail it to the basement with any advance
warning barks from the "boys." They all get along amazingly
well and, after a week or so, they always welcome a new kitten into
the "population." They follow Gordon around like shadows
and love to pile on top of him to sleep, but are still somewhat
skeptical of Spencer, who is only a puppy and much too rambunctious
and rowdy, in their collective opinions.
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