Boy’s Secret Rendezvous Saved Starving Street Cat [View all]

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Editor’s note: This post is a Care2 favorite. It was originally published on March 15, 2012. Enjoy!

Written by Dawnrose D’Aloia of New Jersey

It was one of those hot, summer days when my son, Mark, burst into the apartment stating he needed “a bottle of water and a dish of cat food right away.” Since we already had two rescues, I had a feeling I knew where this was going. I asked him what he was feeding and he assured me I did not need to know. Three days this went on, and finally I demanded, “Show me what you’re feeding.”

He took me around to the end of the complex, bent down by a dirty bowl that once held food, and called “ChaCha! ChaCha!” This poor, pathetic little kitten walked up to him, looking like she had just been beaten up. Her ears were chewed to shreds, and she was clearly undernourished and weak. She nuzzled up to him, lovingly, as though he were her best friend. Need I describe how this tugged at my heart?

So I called my boyfriend, whom I thought would be the voice of reason, and asked, “Should I take her in?” Thinking he would say, ‘What are you, crazy? Three cats? No!’ Instead, he said, “Sure as long as Marky agrees to help with the care.” Sigh. “You are no help!” I told him and hung up. I looked down at my son, with this sweet little critter lying in his lap, and said, “Bring her.” He was overjoyed, telling ChaCha how she now has a home!

Her Ears Were So Painful

I gave her a flea bath, as I do to all my new additions, and while cleaning her ears, she shrieked in pain and shook her head violently. I thought it was hurt from a fight, but when I cleaned it out with a cotton ball, cotton swabs and a tissue, found the culprit – ear mites. I ran to the store and picked up some ear mite treatment, and after a couple weeks of “challenging” treatment, she was free of this problem.

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