Cat Who Was Not Expected to Walk Again, Won't Stop Trying.

Awwwww ... Bravo Zulu, Clint. Fire and brimstone for the clown who shot him.

I love rescue stories like this but it infuriates me the cruelty people do to animals, especially cats.......

Whenever I get exhauste from the news or life, I always go to LOVEMEOW. It’s story after story of rescues and happy endings for cats and kittens.

A stray trotted thru my yard and headed for the woods yesterday. I made sure the bird feeders were ok and then watched as (s)he made her way out of sight. Then followed a few minutes behind to see where she might have gone. By then she had disappeared, hopefully on her way home. She did look to have a collar and I will check neighborhood forums just to make sure she’s not a lost kitty

I agree, even though I’m not a cat lover, I hate the haters.

Yes!

Our current cat is a rescue that had been dumped, and he apparently underwent a tough spell out on the street. After he adopted us (that seems to be how it works), we discovered that he had some serious health issues related to neglect; after many months and considerable vet bills, he is finally about where he ought to be. Whoever abandoned him abandoned a clever and generally endearing little character with just enough orneriness to keep things interesting.

Over the years, we have run across a lot of people who will do/condone ugly things to cats but will threaten to do horrifying things to any human being who will do/condone the same to dogs. Go figure.

Lasr night on Animal Planet’s The Zoo, they showed the rehabilitation of a Snow Leopard cub born with Swimmer Syndrome.

After extensive physical therapy, it was walking normally. Cats can make it when they set their minds to it and the little cub was a real trooper.

I had nine feral cats and kittens that lived under our deck for a year and a half. Caught them all in raccoon catch and release traps, had them all neutered or spayed, then gave 6 to the county humane society. Wow were those feral kittens aggressive nasty critters! Must inherit that attack mode from the Mom.

Anyway, we kept three. The Mom and one spayed female kitten live in a $150.00 heated, insulated Cat House I built for them and the other a big Tom actually became tame over time and stays in my house most of the time. I agree anyone that shoots a cat will pay a price someday. They are easy to catch when hungry and most counties have "no kill" shelters.

Our local county animal shelter was a disaster for years and a horrible reputation of euthanizing everything brought in.

I think maybe two years ago they got a sizable donation and combined with county funds, remodeled the entire facility, got rid of the director and replaced her with a compassionate woman who turned it into a no kill shelter and set up a TNR (trap, neuter and release) program.......

HI Beautiful putty cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got my cat from this group

Noisy ! But loveable ......

I got a few cats...not THAT many...and I give the ferals a boost with food and protective environment...so I treat the cats I come in contact with decently...they are beautiful amazing lovable creatures...but they are part of the food chain also. I find bird feathers...half lizards..and mutilated mice lots of times on my property..when I am reminded that the cats need to be fed with other canned slaughtered animals it puts them into perspective.

Bravo to the one who undertook the rehab of the cruelly injured Clint...thank you for your kindness and perseverance...someday the lions will lie down with the lamb.

A horrible curse on maggots who injure and torment little animals. One of ours got kicked or stepped on but he keeps going with his bad leg though some days it really hurts him. They are tough, determined but fragile. Their little knees are especially vulnerable. Some of our free cats have cost hundreds of dollars in vet bills. Pepper is still the undisputed leader of our pride who have all had a good romp and hunt in the trees around the yard this morning and are lounging around my chair. They are smarter than many give them credit for but independent. They choose us. Working on the tractor last night i looked up to see all four lined up on the hood watching me.

Godspeed, little Clint!

‘You like cat stories in the morning. Come in.’

I had nine feral cats and kittens that lived under our deck for a year and a half .. Wow were those feral kittens aggressive nasty critters!

When my family was living in a city we had an ordinary-looking tabby cat. We adored that cat and treated it with great affection and care. We cut a cat door with a flap leading out to an outdoor rooftop deck, two stories up overlooking blocks of rowhouses—so cute to let the cat go out into the rooftop garden and sniff around. Our cat could go out, but not get away into the dirty streets and dangers.

One morning very early, our kid woke us up calling out, "Ew! There's a strange cat in my room!"

I went and looked, and it was a feral cat that looked just like our cat, only dirty, crouched on the windowsill. Apparently it had found its way onto the rooftops and gotten in via the cat door. I went over and spoke to the cat kindly, to try to direct it towards the stairs and out, but it growled and hissed something terrible. I told my kid to get entirely under the covers while I went to get food to tempt the stray cat to follow me out.

With oven mitts on and kitchen tongs, I waved an open can of tuna under that cat's nose and used it to lead the cat down several flights of stairs and hallways towards the front door and opened the wooden door.

But before I could open the outer screen door, that wild alley cat screeched and climbed up the inside of the screen, howling and digging into the screen with its claws. Never having been inside, it was responding to the smell of the outside air and absolutely couldn't understand why there was a screen in the way of going back outside! Finally I dared to step near that banshee cat and opened the screendoor with the cat still hanging on it a foot from my head, yowling. I set the tuna can on the front step, went inside and closed the house door.

As soon as I was out of sight, the feral jumped down off the screen, scarfed the food and ran back towards the alley.

By this time my kid had crept down to peek at what was going on, and had witnessed the screeching and wild panic from the top of the stairs.

"He looks just like our cat!" said my kid. "But he's crazy!"

This turned into a teachable moment about how you can't judge a book by its cover, and that here we had two cats who looked almost identical, but one had been raised with love and a home, and the other had grown up rough, and what a difference a loving home could make.

Aww, Clint, you cutie kitty. Here’s hoping you regain total use of your legs and that the piece of filth who shot you has a very bad accident themselves. What gets around comes around. I have absolutely no patience, feeling, or anything but a contempt as deep as space for those who hurt helpless little creatures like this.

There’s no such thing as a “free pet”. I’ve literally spent thousands on “free dogs and cats”. My Missy cat with 3 legs is on my lap as we speak. She wandered into my barn with a compound fractured leg. That was 10 years ago and now she owns me.:)

Beautiful kitty!