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My hubby drives a garbage truck. I got a call one afternoon. He says, “I saw something, and it jumped out of the back of my truck.” A few minutes later, I get another call. “Honey, it’s a tiny kitten. She can barely hold her head up. I can’t get her to drink much water. I’m right around the corner, would you like to try to save her?”

KITTEN. PHOTO: PIXABAY / LILIY2025

He brings this tiny, dirty little kitten to me. She can’t hold her head up she’s so weak. The only way I could get water in her was to tap it on her lips with my finger. I have to get her clean. I mean, she’s spent the afternoon in the nasty end of a garbage truck.

Well, after a few sleepless nights and becoming her “surrogate mom,” she made it. I wasn’t sure at first; she was so very weak. We named her Baby, and baby she is... but a bossy little girl.

That was three years ago, and she has grown into a beauty. I don’t know how people can be so cruel, throwing her out in the trash. She is well-loved and our treasure.

PHOTO: FRAN WHITE

Story submitted by Fran White from Palm Coast, Florida.

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