A week or so ago, my sister and brother-in-law (Sue & Paul) were out hiking when they approached a bridge which goes over a river. Out from the bushes stumbled a tiny kitten, about 8 weeks old, with a terribly mangled front leg and a degloving injury to the face. They nursed her over the weekend, and took her to a vet on Monday. The vet had to remove her front leg, including the scapula, and had to reconstruct her face, by sewing a button into the flesh under her chin, to allow it to heal. He surmised that she was thrown from a moving vehicle onto the pavement, by someone "dumping animals in the country".Paul & Sue decided to keep her, and named her Squirt. She has since healed up pretty well, doesn't seem to miss her leg, and is right at home with the resident Big Orange Cat.
Copyright © Lyn Glover
October 29, 2002
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