Posted on 05/17/2021 4:22:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A kitten rescued from traffic by a Florida woman ended up taking an 80-mile ride in an Uber to an animal rescue facility.
Kylie Gross said she was on her way to work in Hialeah, just outside of Miami, when she spotted a tiny kitten weaving through traffic.
Gross, a nurse practitioner, said she was able to get the kitten into her car, but when she arrived at the clinic where she administers COVID-19 vaccines, the feline had vanished into the steering column.
"When I got to work, I couldn't get her out of the car," Gross told WPBF-TV. "I had no idea where she was. I could just hear her meowing."
Gross elicited help from police and firefighters stationed at the clinic to help lure the kitten out of its hiding place, but she was then faced with the problem of where to take the feline.
Gross said she couldn't take the kitten home, because her dog is not cat friendly, and multiple local shelters told her they had no room for the animal.
She said she learned that the Furry Friends Rescue in Jupiter could take the kitten in, but she had to work and couldn't take the kitten for the approximately 80-mile drive.
"So, I called the cat an Uber," Gross said. "I use Uber. So why not rescue a kitten using Uber?"
Uber driver Jose Jimenez said the hourlong drive was his first acting as a feline shuttle service.
"When it comes to saving a little pet like this, I'll go anywhere," Jimenez said.
Gross said her Uber bill for the ride came to $160.
Furry Friends Rescue said the kitten is underweight, but otherwise healthy. The rescue said in a Facebook post that the kitten was named Uber in honor of its rescue story.
What a great story!
> Travel 80 miles to rescue a kitten and you are a hero. But yet it is still OK to kill an unborn human.
DRINK!
LOL, I'd almost forgotten about that. Bottoms up!
Do you endorse the killing of alive, sensing humans sequestered in a womb?
I’ve never known a livestock farmer who didn’t keep and encourage barn cats.
There is a semi industry re adopting barn cats. A neighbor to the south of us and one to the north both ordered/bought barn cats to minimize the rat problem. We all live on the edge of civilization and semi wilderness.
The cats work mainly at night, and with the exception of a small invasion rat year have been successful for all of us in the area.
They have been too successful re the wild rabbits and baby quail.
What I do NOT endorse is conflating issues which have nothing to do with one another.
It was a nice story about saving a cat on the road - and some of the people here can’t resist making it into the abortion issue of their one-track minds.
I guess you’ve never known the heartfelt satisfaction of saving a helpless animal from death.
There’s a big world out there - inhabited by all sorts of people and with all sorts of ‘happenings’ taking place.
Maybe you need to get out of your own ‘sequestered womb’.
You win some, you lose some.
Nature is ‘red in tooth and claw’.
What has caused such bitterness in you? ... My three kitty beings are rescue kitties. And I am very opposed to murdering sensing Children still in a womb.
I don’t see any ‘bitterness’ in what I’ve written and posted here.
I just object to anti-intellectual conflation of very disparate issues.
(However, you seem to have a rather bitter and one-track mind...)
Again, do you endorse the wholesale slaughter? I suspect you have salved your conscience to accept the abortion on demand evil.
I guess you also think that a contemporary, financially well-off ‘White’ person is responsible for the centuries-long subjugation of ‘People of Color’ in North America.
Welcome to conflation and confusion of facts and issues.
Enjoy your ‘critical race theory’ indoctrination. With your logic, you’ll be a prime subject.
Advice from a bitter female. LOL
Thanks for your highly intelligent and relevant response.
Try the veal. I’ll be here all weekend. LOL
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