Curiosity Saved The Cats

Employees, Health & Body, Inspirational, Kind Strangers, Pets & Animals, Pharmacy, USA | Right | October 22, 2023

My husband and I find a box of abandoned kittens on the road outside our home in a rural part of town. There are six of the little critters with no mama around, and their mewling indicates they’re hungry. They’re VERY young, eyes not yet open.

We bring them inside, get them warm and cleaned up, and start Googling furiously about what we need to do. It’s the middle of the night, and when I say we’re rural, I MEAN rural — whatever monster abandoned the box where they did obviously didn’t think they would ever be found — so we can’t just drive down to the local vet.

Google tells us that, in a pinch, we need to get a specific type of milk and we can feed them using a plastic syringe. Off to the nearest twenty-four-hour convenience store I go — thirty miles away.

I find the milk, but I can’t find the syringes, even though Google told me this place had a pharmacy. I ask at the counter.

Cashier: “Oh, the pharmacy doesn’t open until nine.”

Me: “So there’s nothing you can do?”

Cashier: “I mean, not really. You kinda need a prescription.”

Suddenly, I realize how I look. I’ve pulled up in the middle of the night desperate to get my hands on some syringes.

Me: “Oh! Wait! They’re not for me! It’s for the kittens!”

Cashier: “The… kittens?”

I ask if the place has Wi-Fi, and I get access. Then, I video-call my husband and show the cashier the mewing kittens.

Me: “These little guys need to be fed ASAP, or I don’t know what else to do. Google tells me they’re too young to lick up milk on their own and they need a syringe.”

Before I can finish the sentence, the cashier throws a ten-pack of plastic syringes at me.

Cashier: “Go! Gooo! Get those babies fed!”

I tried to pay, but she screamed, “GOOOO!” again, and I didn’t need to be told twice. We got those kittens fed and watched them all night. The next day, we were off to the town to see the vet.

Our farm now has four farm cats. The other two are fine; they were just adopted by the cashier after we drove back to let her know they were okay!

This story is part of the Best-Feel-Good-Stories Of-2023 roundup!