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.
young pussy isn’t cheap to keep...
Travel 80 miles to rescue a kitten and you are a hero. But yet it is still OK to kill an unborn human. The world is still upside down. God will not be mocked.
My name Jose Jumeniz, I dribes de carr....
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I read that in well you know his voice
Easy Fungi its just a cute cat story
I heard it. :)
Kittens normally don't eat as much food as adult cats. That saves money. Kittens also don't go through litter as fast as an adult cat. That saves money.
Best chuckle I’ve had in days. Thx!
Sweet story
But you don’t usually have to put an older cat into a taxi after an encounter.
If she is a good hunter and hungry, just send her to Chicago, for all the rats she can eat.
Shelter releases 1,000 feral cats on to Chicago streets to combat rat crisis!
Program called Cats at Work places two or three felines outside residences and businesses to deal with rodent problem
A cat is seen on an empty street in Antalya, Turkey. For the sixth consecutive year Chicago was named the ârattiest cityâ in a poll conducted by Orkin, a US pest control company.
A cat is seen on an empty street in Antalya, Turkey. For the sixth consecutive year Chicago was named the ârattiest cityâ in a poll conducted by Orkin, a US pest control company. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Gloria Oladipo
Fri 14 May 2021 10.32 EDT
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An animal shelter in Chicago has released 1,000 feral cats throughout the city to combat a rat crisis.
Through a program called Cats at Work, the Tree House Humane Society, a local animal shelter, releases feral felines on to city streets. The initiative places two to three cats, all spayed, neutered and vaccinated, outside of residences and businesses to sustainably deal with Chicagoâs rodent problem.
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The cats are animals that âwould not thrive in a shelter or home environmentâ and are usually subject to long stays in animal control centers or euthanization, according to the non-profitâs website.
While the deployed felines will sometimes kill rats, the mere presence of these repurposed alley cats is usually enough to scare off pests. About 1,000 cats have now been released since 2012, as reported by WGN9, a local media station.
Local homeowners or businesses can sign up for the program, as long as they cover food, water and shelter for the cats. The popular program currently has a âlong waitlistâ, as stated on its website.
Issues with vermin arenât new for Chicago. For the sixth consecutive year Chicago has beaten out major cities like Los Angeles and New York to be named the ârattiest cityâ in a poll conducted by Orkin, an American pest control company.
While Chicago has implemented solutions like rat-proof garbage bins and rodenticide in rat burrows, the Tree House Society has called these actions âineffectiveâ and âshort-termâ, specifically citing the use of poison as âdangerous to children, pets and the environmentâ. Alternatively, using cats as deterrence for rats is a âlong-termâ and âgreenâ solution, said the organization.
âWorking cats are natural predators, which provide a reliable, permanent solution and a win-win for both humans and cats,â said the shelter.
You have no idea how the woman in the story feels or believes about abortion.
Some people can actually walk and chew gum at the same time.
The minds of liberals. The same mind will lecture people about the poor in Africa needing only fifty cents a day to live, and will spend 160 dollars to send a cat to get gassed.
They just had to incorporate “the clinic where she administers Covid-19 vaccines” into the article, even though it’s wholly immaterial.
I’ve never known a livestock farmer who didn’t keep and encourage barn cats.
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