One year ago, one of the contractors I work with brought in an animal carrier with a very small cat in it. He lives up in the surrounding hills of Pocatello where there are lots of owls, coyotes, and hawks. One morning he looked out and saw something funny shaped in his yard. He got a bit closer and saw that it was an injured cat. She was not using her back legs at all and was dragging herself around. He brought her into the cabinet shop to see if anyone could help her. She was so small and so hungry. We kept her at the shop and she loved the attention. She did have issues though because she could only drag herself around and every morning when we would come in there was a trail of where she had explored the night before. There were a few people at the shop that really showed an interest but after a couple of weeks they didn't put as much effort into it as I was. They were hinting that a decision needed to be made because she would never live a full life. We called her broken kitty. I took her into the vet to have her tested for feline aids or leukemia and see what their opinion was of why she didn't use her back legs at all. They didn't take any x rays but said that nothing felt broken and her blood work was fine. I took her back to the shop and a few days later my partner Heidi convinced me to bring her home to try and rehab her in a better environment than a cabinet shop. The day we brought her home we named her Zoe, which means Life. Click on the following link to see this video I made of her life one year later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SSR5fJg4NQ
Enjoy and pass it along to everyone who loves animals!!!!
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