They tied him up in a plastic bag and left him by garbage. Not trash — a living baby. Too weak to cry. Sick. Limp. Then we…
My son called saying he’d come over the weekend to pick up Nuomi, who’d been staying with me. The moment I heard that, I panicked and raised…
A quiet backyard can feel so safe, until the woods suddenly turn into danger. Little Oakley was only outside for a quick bathroom break when two coyotes…
The choice didn’t come with fireworks or fanfare.It came quietly, on a freezing winter night, through a garage door left open just enough to offer kindness. Every…
I once met two cats who looked almost the same. One lived inside a warm home. It slept on a couch, knew the sound of a door…
The returned ginger cat watched its owner leave, on the verge of tears. The adopter was a teacher. She had gone through a screening process and seemed…
A tiny stray cat once hid deep in the bushes, shaking in silence and trying not to be noticed. No warm bed. No full belly. Just fear,…
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Another reason for me to live is gone. This is what it feels like to say goodbye to a kitten. From…
When I got back to my apartment complex after work in the evening, a neighbor told me that a resident had thrown their kittens outside. Apparently, the…