A Widow Finds Solace in Rescuing Kittens
Maureen Brown can tell stories about kittens. Happy stories, sad stories, funny stories.
Ms. Brown, a disabled 61-year-old, was lying in bed in her Upper West Side apartment, flipping through snapshots of the scores of kittens she has raised over seven years. She recalled one who kept escaping from his cage. Turns out he could slip through the slats. She named him Houdini.
“They are mostly funny stories,” said Ms. Brown, a volunteer at Kitten Little Rescue, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan that cares for sick and abandoned kittens brought in by Animal Care and Control of New York City, another nonprofit. Kitten Little Rescue keeps the cats until they are about 8 weeks old and mature enough to be adopted.
Ms. Brown’s two-bedroom apartment was for years a way station for kittens, up to 20 at a time, until the accumulated burden of her many ailments — two ruptured discs, a surgically replaced knee, lungs that had endured decades of smoking before she quit — diminished her mobility. In 2012, her knee replacement gave out, and she has essentially been bedridden.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/nyregion/a-widow-finds-solace-in-rescuing-kittens.html?_r=0
This is under the Times' neediest cases series...sad story...
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