Happy Tails and Purrfect Endings

Phoenix ’s Story

On December 28, 2002, we received a call regarding a kitten found on the side of the road.

The caller thought the kitten's left eye had been removed. We went to pick her up thinking it would be fairly easy to reunite her with the owner. Nothing could have prepared us for what we were about to see.

It was obvious by the kitten's heartbreaking condition that this poor creature had been on her own for a long time. Weighing only one pound, starvation had turned her into a skeleton with fur. Her ears were frostbitten and infested with mites. Her back legs calloused and bare and her left eye damaged beyond repair. In her short life she had known only pain and suffering, and yet this sweet, gentle soul managed to purr.

We immediately took the kitten to the vet. It turned out that she was not a kitten but rather a three or four year old cat! We were advised to have her euthanized because it would be expensive to have her eye removed. We did not have the funds.

The rest is history.

Purrfect Endings was formed with the intention of rescuing those cats in desperate need of another chance despite their age and medical condition. This little cat had beaten all the odds and lived. We decided to go ahead with the eye surgery and worry about the money later.

She was named Phoenix.

Shortly afterwards, an angel in the form of a young man saw Phoenix's picture, read her story and donated the entire amount to cover her surgery!

Phoenix had been living with two other rescue cats who were soon adopted. To keep her from getting lonely I started letting her mingle with my own five cats. They accepted her immediately and in September of 2003 I made it official and adopted her as a permanent member of my family.

I will always be forever grateful for this wonderful gift...my dear, sweet Phoenix.

- Linda

Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals)
is our first duty to them,
but to stop there
is not enough.
We have a higher mission-
to be of service to them whenever they require it.
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men
who will deal likewise
with their fellow men.

- St. Francis of Assisi
(patron saint of animals)

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