To the Editor:
After reading the Jan. 26 letter to the the editor (“Three puppies now have good lives, thanks to two kind men”), I just had to share my story too.
My name is “Onyx” and I was rescued also, along, with my brother and sister back in April 2009 by the newspaper lady that heard our cries. We were thrown by our owner along a road on her paper route in Barton, Maryland.
My brother and sister and I were all covered with mud, wet, and very cold. I was crying for my mom and just couldn’t understand where she was. The newspaper lady bundled us up and took us to the post office in Barton where my new owner showed up that morning. It must have been fate because my new owner loves cats and had just buried several of her own after bouts of illnesses that spring.
She immediately took all three of us to her vet to be checked. My sister, “Onyca”” had no temperature reading and I wasn’t sure she would survive at all. Because of her attention and the help of the vet practice, we were able to be taken home that day.
Did I mention, we were only two weeks old and just opened up our eyes? She bottle fed us and along with her husband took care of us around the clock, nursing us back to good health.
We are now beautiful, loving cats to our owners and so appreciative for the help given to us that day from everyone. I am a black cat with brown eyes and my owner says I look like a leopard — my sister does also. Then there is my brother, “Oreo” — a black and white tabby, who was the runt of the litter and is now the biggest — he weighs over 12 pounds and the vet says he has “Maine Coon” in him, so he is going to be really big.
I just want to thank everyone involved that day — Kathy, the newspaper lady, Mary Ann, the post office lady who let me stay at the post office and to my new owners, Linda and Gene Kyle.
I also want the horrible and abusive person that threw us away like garbage to know that God was with us that day and did look after us. Doesn’t he realize that God created us just like he created humans and we are living, breathing, animals?
Killing an animal is just as wrong as killing a person. If you don’t want any more cats, then get your cat spayed. There are lots of programs that can help you and plenty of cat loving people that need another cat.
I hope you did not do anything to our mother and I am sure she cried and cried for us when you took us away. I know she will always remember us.
Submitted by Linda Davis-Kyle
Barton
Receptionist at Western Maryland
Animal Hospital, LaVale
