One Kitten That Leads to Another Leads to 2K
Welcome to BarkSpot from Bark PDX, a blog dedicated to our pets and our lives and adventures with them. Here we will share ideas, information, news, links, fun stories, anecdotes and basically everything pet and animal related.
One Kitten Leads to Another Leads to 2K
Image by John Nyberg
After I graduated from the University of Oregon I decided to move to South America for a couple of years. I moved to Chile and had a wonderful time meeting many wonderful people and their pets. At the time I only had one dog and she stayed with my folks until I was situated; later she came to join me in South America. I lived with a fellow student in a humble cabaña where we met some stray cats that seemed to come around from time to time. In particular there was this orange cat, we called her “Orange” and she was incredibly sweet especially for a stray. We used to feed her until one day she stopped coming. We had gotten pretty used to her and were taking good care of her so we were shocked when she suddenly disappeared. Some time went by and then we heard some crying cat outside the door. “Orange”! With excitement we opened the door only to find that it wasn’t Orange at all, but rather 3 cats that we had never met before. We thought this was strange because we stopped leaving food out by this point and joked that she sent them to do a “pick up” while she was prospecting other feeding sources. These cats weren’t nearly as friendly as Orange, but they all shared something in common… they were hungry. We felt guilty and starting feeding the 3 and wouldn’t you know it, guess who returned? Yes, at long last it was Orange. We soon learned why Orange took some time off and it wasn’t long before she showed us the evidence- a litter of kittens. We had cats and kittens crying at our door non-stop so I know first hand that one cat leads to two, leads to another and another and so on.
I have written about a couple of tragic stories of animal abuse in New York City, but I have also covered some inspiring ones of altruistic people making a positive difference for animals. Here’s yet another story of a New Yorker who opened her heart and her pocketbook for over two thousand cats. She has gone into debt by over $10K in the process, but it’s her heart that we care about, right? If you are interested here’s the story, take a read: 2K Kitty
