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soft - 18 Feb 2004 17:03 GMT

My daughter got up and drove to the mall (35 minute drive) for some
shopping. When she parked the car and got out she heard a ktten
screaming - she looked to find the kitten to see why it was in such a
state - she found it in the motor of her car.

We could not keep another kittten because I have 3 in the house now so
we spent the day trying to find somewhere for the little thing to go
where it would stand a chance. The animal shelter turned us away
because were not from that county and we don't have a shelter.

PetsMart was having an adpotion day and when we told them the story
they took the little girl - we named her lucky - the vet checked her
out and she was totally ok. One of the store clerks adopted her that
day.

Karryl

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Ivor Jones - 18 Feb 2004 17:45 GMT

> My daughter got up and drove to the mall (35 minute drive) for some
> shopping. When she parked the car and got out she heard a ktten
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> out and she was totally ok. One of the store clerks adopted her that
> day.

Thankyou for that story, although it made me a little sad - what sort of a
shelter would turn a kitten away just because of where you live..? The
welfare of the cat must come first.

Ivor

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Nan - 18 Feb 2004 22:25 GMT

>Thankyou for that story, although it made me a little sad - what sort of a
>shelter would turn a kitten away just because of where you live..? The
>welfare of the cat must come first.
>
>Ivor

My county does not have a shelter, and the adjoining county (where we
all shop) shelter will not accept animals from any county but their
own.

Nan

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~*Connie*~ - 18 Feb 2004 23:55 GMT

Unfortunately shelters have to limit what they take in due to financial
reasons. They contract with the towns in the area, and the bill is based on
the number of animals found or surrendered from that town.

The welfare of all the animals and the financial health of the facility also
must be taken into account. If the shelter has to close because it ran out
of money trying to care for everyone, then no one is helped.

> Thankyou for that story, although it made me a little sad - what sort of a
> shelter would turn a kitten away just because of where you live..? The
> welfare of the cat must come first.
>
> Ivor

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Ivor Jones - 19 Feb 2004 16:40 GMT

> Unfortunately shelters have to limit what they take in due to financial
> reasons. They contract with the towns in the area, and the bill is based on
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> must be taken into account. If the shelter has to close because it ran out
> of money trying to care for everyone, then no one is helped.

Well that just goes to show how things are different in different
countries. I volunteer at my local Cats Protection (www.cats.org.uk)
shelter here in the UK and I can't imagine them turning away a cat due
just to where the person bringing it in lived. If we were full, then
perhaps, but due to area..? We only home cats to residents of the local
area due to the requirement for a home visit, but AFAIK no cat would be
refused if there was space.

Ivor

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rangitotogirl - 19 Feb 2004 07:26 GMT

> My daughter got up and drove to the mall (35 minute drive) for some
> shopping. When she parked the car and got out she heard a ktten
> screaming - she looked to find the kitten to see why it was in such a
> state - she found it in the motor of her car.

This reminds me of my cat who died recently (from old age). She actually
made it into the newspaper with her story which was quite incredible.

When she was 14 weeks old we had a stray dog wander into our yard. Mindy
was petrified and went and hid in the motor of my brother's car. She drove
down to work with him and then got out of his car and into the motor of
someone else's car. This guy stopped at the service station on the way
home, lifted the bonnet and found this petrified 14 week old kitten.

In the meantime I had arrived home and couldn't find Mindy. I was supposed
to be going out to a meeting that night (near where my brother worked), but
I rang up the people to tell them I couldn't come because I was looking for
my kitten. Then after a quick prayer I went up and climbed the hedge to see
whether she had managed to get herself tangled up there. No sooner had I
got down than the phone rang. It was the people at the place where I was
supposed to be attending the meeting. There were two girls with a kitten at
their door and they were wanting to know whether it could possibly be my
kitten. Sure enough it was. When my school principal heard the story he
contacted the newspaper and they rang me and it made the front page feature
story.

There were just so many coincidences in this story that I would have to call
it a miracle.

Firstly Mindy could have climbed out of the car at my brother's work and
just disappeared.
Secondly the guy had to stop at the service station to fill up. If he had
just driven home Mindy would no doubt have disappeared and no one would have
been any the wiser as to where she came from.
Thirdly he had CNG so had to lift the bonnet of his car when he was filling
up. CNG was just about phased out by the time this happened so very few
vehicles had it.
Fourthly, I was supposed to go out that night. There was only one person I
contacted to let them know that I wasn't coming and that I had a missing
kitty.
Finally the guy returned to his place of work and gave it to some girls to
ask around the neighbourhood, and the first place they visited was the place
I had just rung up only 10-20 minutes previously.

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