Hero Cat Walks Through Fire Five Times To Save Her Kittens
Nov 27, 2016 23:25:47 GMT -5
Post by Shoshanna on Nov 27, 2016 23:25:47 GMT -5
Hero Cat Walks Through Fire Five Times To Save Her Kittens
by Gwen Cooper
If it's true that cats have nine lives, then this fierce mama cat gave up five of hers to save her babies.
This beautiful calico and her five kittens were living in an abandoned Brooklyn garage that had become a crack house when a fire broke out. The New York City Fire Department responded to a call about the fire and quickly extinguished it. Once the fire was under control, one of the firefighters on the scene, David Giannelli, noticed the mama cat carrying her kittens away from the garage one by one.
She had been severely burned in the process of pulling her kittens from the fire. Her eyes were blistered shut, her ears and paws burned, and her coat highly singed. The majority of her facial hair had been burnt away. After saving the kittens she was seen to touch each one of them with her nose to ensure they were all there and alive, as the blisters on her eyes kept her from being able to see them.Then she collapsed into unconsciousness.
Gianelli took the tiny family to the North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, New York where the mama cat—who staffers named Scarlett (after Scarlett O'Hara)—and her kittens were treated. The weakest of the kittens died of a virus a month after the fire. However, after three months of treatment and recovery, Scarlett and her surviving kittens were well enough to be adopted. One of the clinic's vet techs told reporters that, during her time there, Scarlett was "spoiled rotten and treated like a queen".
Scarlett a few days after the fire.
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by Gwen Cooper
If it's true that cats have nine lives, then this fierce mama cat gave up five of hers to save her babies.
This beautiful calico and her five kittens were living in an abandoned Brooklyn garage that had become a crack house when a fire broke out. The New York City Fire Department responded to a call about the fire and quickly extinguished it. Once the fire was under control, one of the firefighters on the scene, David Giannelli, noticed the mama cat carrying her kittens away from the garage one by one.
She had been severely burned in the process of pulling her kittens from the fire. Her eyes were blistered shut, her ears and paws burned, and her coat highly singed. The majority of her facial hair had been burnt away. After saving the kittens she was seen to touch each one of them with her nose to ensure they were all there and alive, as the blisters on her eyes kept her from being able to see them.Then she collapsed into unconsciousness.
Gianelli took the tiny family to the North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, New York where the mama cat—who staffers named Scarlett (after Scarlett O'Hara)—and her kittens were treated. The weakest of the kittens died of a virus a month after the fire. However, after three months of treatment and recovery, Scarlett and her surviving kittens were well enough to be adopted. One of the clinic's vet techs told reporters that, during her time there, Scarlett was "spoiled rotten and treated like a queen".
Scarlett a few days after the fire.
See the rest of the story and more pictures at the link