Care Death Pet

What Started Out as just another day at Work Ended as a Joyous celebration of love

It was just another day at work, at least up until just after lunch.

A co-worker, who was responsible for pest & rodent control, received a call on his two-way radio that a cat was stuck in the fence that surrounded the perimeter of the large manufacturing complex where we worked.

Having overheard the conversation, I offered to go with him to help out if I could; especially since I'm a cat-lover at heart anyway, and wanted to be sure nobody hurt the poor thing!

We drove around the property to the area described, and a couple of lunchtime-walkers pointed out where they had heard a cat crying out. We went down a small embankment, and there near the base of the chain-link fence was a very small cat (kitten) with its head through one of the diamond shaped openings; struggling, crying hoarsely and obviously frightened, hungry, tired and quite likely dehydrated.

It was clear that the kitten had been trying hard to get unstuck, as the dirt beneath it was dug out from it pawing so much (in futility, of course).

As I attempted to gently pull the kitten's head back through the diamond opening, I realized it was not going to come free without hurting the kitten, so I asked my co-worker to hurry back to the shop area to get some bolt cutters. Meanwhile, I did my best to reassure this unfortunate feline that "everything will be OK".

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