WCB #40

Last June, I saw a stray cat poking around our backyard, acting all squirrely and running underneath our deck quite often. One evening, as I was sitting out on the deck reading, I saw this cat make a mad dash for one of our very small bushes in the side garden and with her was this itty bitty hissing kitten!
I knew that I had to catch this mother/daughter team and take them to the no-kill shelter, else they might either starve or one of the male feral cats lurking about might kill the little one. I took the mewling kitten into the garage and lured the mom in; we eventually got them into the house, then into a carrier, and to the shelter. After an examination, the shelter surprised us with the news that this kitten did NOT belong to this stray cat; she'd merely adopted it as her own. Awwww! A coworker of mine told her friend about the kitten and she went to the shelter to adopt it--a happy ending! Apparently this cat is now a gorgeous, strong-willed calico named Tauri who happily rules her household. It was my best good deed of 2005.

More felines at Kiri's, uh, er, Clare's!