Thank you JL

Last Friday one of our clients was horrified when she ran over a cat while she and her son were headed to the park.  She stopped and picked up the cat and brought him to us.  She is herself a cat owner.  Despite the fact that she felt both the front and the back wheels of her car run over him, the cat suffered no apparent injuries.  We treated him with pain medication, medication to prevent shock and gave him fluids until Animal Control could respond to our call.  We ended up keeping him overnight.  We were delighted Saturday morning when we came in and he had been eating and drinking overnight and was ready to go on about his life.  Unfortunately, he had no ID so we could not reunite him with his owner.  He is obviously someone's pet and one of the sweetest cats I have ever met.  Despite being run over by a car, picked up be a stranger, being poked and prodded by us, he was purring and rubbing on us the whole time and was thrilled every time we could stop and give him some attention.  He definitely used up a life or two last Friday.  We hope that his owners are reunited with him or that someone will quickly adopt him from the shelter.  He is a strong reminder of how hazardous the world is to a cat running loose and, with no ID, the animal control officers often have no choice but to authorize euthanasia for cats that are injured that they consider strays.  Please keep your cats inside but, if they must go outside, make sure they have a collar with tags and a microchip so you can be reunited and your cat is not needlessly euthanized.  And, a huge thank you to JL for the caring and kindness and compassion you showed this cat in a situation where many people would have just kept moving.
Jan Hueben, RVT