Wel, it finally happened. My old laptop bit the dust, and me with 12 auctions on eBay that end tonight. So, off to Best Buy Daddy and I go, him because he needs a card for Mama for tomorrow, and this was an excuse to get to town. On the way there, we pull up to a stoplight, and pass what looks like a kitten in the road. I asked Daddy, "Was that cat alive?"
"I think so."
"Well, we have to go get it."
"Go GET it?!?!? We can't go get it!"
"Daddy, if we don't get it, it'll get killed." At that, I yank open the door of the car and bail out. All Daddy said, as the light turned green was, "I'll come back and get you!!"
And so here I go, playing 'Dodge The Cars', trying to get to this cat. I get to it, and the SUV sitting next to it stops so that I won't get killed, and asks if I want them to take it to the pound. Another lady hollered that I was a good Samaritan. Got several honks as well. Finally, Daddy pulls up, after pulling a U-ey and I can get out of the median.
Poor kitty had been thrown from a car, had a bloody nose and mouth, and was panting and stunned. I was not sure he'd live, but he slowly started perking back up as we got to town. I got permission from the manager to carry him in Best Buy (picture that, negotiating computers while cuddling a kitten and covered in kitten blood).
While I was waiting to have my comp diagnosed, I assessed him, and did not appreciate any fractures, breathing was slowing down, moving more, mewing, and clawing the devil out of me.
I got LOTS of attention, kids sitting in my lap to pet the kitty, Mamas fawning over it, Daddies rolling their eyes at the Mamas, employees coming by to see what the crowd is about. In the end, a little salesgirl happened by and threw an absolute fit over the kitty. Asked if she could have him. Called a friend to come get it until she could get off work. Friend has just as big a fit, so I think he's going to a good home.
Interesting day, and made me wonder, do you ever use your nursing skills on animals? I never thought I'd do that, but it just came naturally. I'm interested to hear what y'all have done, and has anyone else pulled a stunt like I did to try and rescue an animal?
What a great rescue story! I'm so glad there are others out there who stop for an animal in need. I've never found any live cats to save, although I'm always watching out the car window for them. I'm the person who stops and moves the dead cats out of the road, and then I knock on every door until I find the owner. Although my cats are strictly indoor cats, I'd still want someone looking out for me and my cats should something like that ever happen.
I'd like to think there is a special hell for animal abusers. These cats and dogs, domesticated and relying completely on humans for their well-being...it just kills me to think that there are people out there who would prey on such defenseless creatures.
Aww... that made me cry! My furbabies mean the world to me, I can only hope someone would do the same thing for me if need be.
Nothing will make me hop on my soap box faster than irresponsible owners. I've been known to call the humane society (repeatedly) on a neighbor who lets his pug (version 2.0, the original was smooshed by a car:sniff:) roam the streets. Like having one dog get killed on street wasn't enough? I'm in the midst of a falling out with one of my oldest friends because he doesn't see anything wrong with getting rid of his newest dog every 6 months or so when it's the monster he allowed it to become by not socializing or training it.:angryfire
There has to be a special, extra unpleasant spot in hell for people that are cruel to the most defenseless of creatures, right?
I used the Heimlich maneuver on my rabbit once.. she had swallowed a peach pit and was choking.. didn't know what else to do in a moment of panic... thank God it worked!! LOL
I also gave mouth to mouth to my dog years ago... or rather mouth to snout LOL.. glad to report that works too!! Only bad side effect was the doggy breath... but keeping her alive was well worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like animals so much that I have made it my career. Sure compared to human nursing the pay sucks but I feel that the job benefits are great. I'm a CVT, a Certified Veterinary Technician. This is like being an RN in the veterinary world plus I also do lab work, radiolographs, ultrasounds, dentals and many other things. We aren't as segregated in vet med as people are in human med. So yes I do use my nursing skills on animals.
Specializes in Case Mgmt, Anesthesia, ICU, ER, Dialysis.
Ah, yes, I knew when I found this thread, I had found my people.
I am a cat person. And a dog person. And a bird person...you get the idea.
All God's creatures deserve lots of love and consideration.
My 15 and 16 y/o girls right now are rescue kitties. I either took them or they went to the shelter, so I took them. It was actually 3 of them - their sister, KC (short for Kitty Cat) went to the catnip fields in 1999 from liver cancer.
Then 4 years ago, this little grey tabby wandered up outside my house, all skinny and flea bitten. My husband had to rescue him from the tree, where the other neighborhood bully cats had chased him. He got down, ignored my husband, and ran over to me.
My husband says he recognized a sucker when we saw one! LOL!
Murrus ('cause he doesn't meow, or purr...he MURRS) is now fat, sassy and full of personality. He's Mama's boy, but he naps with his much older sisters, too.
OP, bless you for not letting that kitty die. They don't understand what they did..and indeed, they did nothing...to deserve such treatment.
And I agree that the deepest levels of hell are reserved for those who mistreat animals.
Heh, there's a cat that lives in our hospital's CCU, called Smokey (and he's super obese). He's been hit by a car a few times and had IVF, been cared for in our A&E by people doctors!
But Smokey just owns the place, he potters about and waits at the lifts and just splays himself out on any bed he feels.
I don't think Infection control is too happy about some of his antics!
At the rest home I worked in as a student a kitten jsut showed up in our little hosp wing kitchen once, we adopted the poor flea infested chap and after some ring arounds a vet said he'd "unpack his suitcases" for free! He made himself right at home, along with the other pudge ball cat that was freakishly good at picking out which resident was going to pass soon!
But I've given subcut fluids to one of my ratties before, along with subC AB, four hourly turns and syringe feeds to try and get her over her case of a nasty infection in her uterus. She didn't survive, but she spent her final days comfy and happy.
As for cruelty to animals - it concerns me because all homicidal maniacs start out by taking pot shots at animals. Plus, its jsut plain nasty and inappropriate. THere should be harsher pentalities for those buggers that harm such defenceless creatures.
When I was in IT I drove to my employer in the middle of winter. Damn, it was COLD. I remember running to the building after parking my car (don't forget, park with the wind facing your car's butt!), but this cold is just BRUTAL, and nothing to be messed with.
As I run toward the entrance, the wind is blocked by a wall with a planter at the base.
I slow down and pull off my hood and hear:
mew-mew-mew
Eh?
Then nothing.
Like a moron who got a case of the I-can't-help-its, I look into the bushes in the planter.
Nothing.
Look more.
Still nothing.
Then I hear a squeak.
A-Ha! Gotcha!
Look inside, and there are a number of VERY YOUNG kittens!
I'm totally unprepared for this...or am I? I find my pen and put it where the kitties are and run up to my work area.
I'm pretty low-key, so when I walk into my work area and say:
"I HAVE AN EMERGENCY!" Everyone jumps up.
I take an extra 20 seconds and explain the situation fully, and my co-workers aren't even getting their coats.
"Let's Go!"
It's only 4 floors, but the damned elevators are taking forever.
One of my Female co-workers says "F-this, let's take the stairs!" We run down the stairs and hit the front doors like a SWAT Team, and swarm the sidewalk. No one can stop this mission. There are at least 6 of us.
"Farther down the sidewalk! Look for a pen!"
It's so frigging cold.
"If you did this so you could see our nipples, I am personally going to kick your Azz."
It doesn't take long, though...OMG!
You could sense the concern when we found the orphans. Serious internet research, eyedropper feeding, and moistened Q-Tips to encourage bowel movements...our "manager" was not happy.
F-You.
Years later, ALL kittens have grown and thrived. HAHAHA
Wonderful story. I'm a big softie for animals, all my pets are rescue animals. My cat is from the pound, my sister found my dog running around on a freeway in Victoria and now I have him, my other dog used to belong to my idiot ex's friend who abused her, my horse was going to end up dogmeat.
Any form of animal cruelty is incomprehensible to me. I've noticed a lot of anger on this thread but do you ever consider what laboratory animals go through, all in the name of science and cosmetics? Probably a lot worse than being thrown from a car and run over. At least that would have been quick.
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What a great rescue story! I'm so glad there are others out there who stop for an animal in need. I've never found any live cats to save, although I'm always watching out the car window for them. I'm the person who stops and moves the dead cats out of the road, and then I knock on every door until I find the owner. Although my cats are strictly indoor cats, I'd still want someone looking out for me and my cats should something like that ever happen.
I'd like to think there is a special hell for animal abusers. These cats and dogs, domesticated and relying completely on humans for their well-being...it just kills me to think that there are people out there who would prey on such defenseless creatures.