A place to call ‘forever home’

When a stray kitten came to Jan Rottenberg’s cat hospital, she never expected the loving bond they would share…or the miraculous outcome

My small cat hospital was busy enough, but rescues kept it really hopping. So when the door chimed just before closing on a Friday night, and a man walked in carrying a shoebox, I wasn’t really surprised. “I have a cat,” he said with a Spanish accent, “a little cat.” “Oh,” I said, “have you tried taking it to the shelter?” After a brief conversation in broken English and broken Spanish, I learned that he had tried, but the shelter would not take the cat because it was too sick. He had tried another animal hospital but they did not accept strays. I peered into the box and found a scrawny kitten whose nose and eyes were plastered shut with mucus, and of course there were fleas. “Okay,” I said. “I’ll take…

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First for Women (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 17, 2020

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