Grace upon arrival at Tabby’s Place
You’d never drop a diamond into a dumpster. But recently, one tiny treasure ended up in the trash.
A tiny treasure…with a tail.
Hunterdon County residential service driver James Ryan started his day as usual, beginning his route at 4am. When James arrived at the transfer station, the loader operator asked him an unusual question: “You like cats, right, James?”
Well known among his coworkers as a cat-lover, James was just the man they’d hoped to see that day. Another driver had made a startling discovery hours earlier. Amid the orange peels and cast-off containers in his truck, a skinny black-and-white kitten tumbled out. Small enough to disappear into a driver’s glove, the kitten had scurried behind some shovels…and she was in serious trouble.
James dug through the tools to find the kitten. When he reached to pick her up, the kitten howled a cry of agony that James says, “I never want to hear out of a kitten for the rest of my life. My heart was breaking.” He soon saw the cause for the kitten’s distress: her right rear leg had been mangled in the dumpster.
The kitten and her hero made their way to Tabby’s Place in Ringoes, both crying with all their might. As a haven for cats from hopeless situations, Tabby’s Place was just the place for the wounded baby. After treating her with pain medication, the veterinary team gently bathed the kitten. Within hours, the little survivor was on her way to a world-class specialty hospital, where she’d have surgery to remove her mangled leg and begin her road to recovery.
As James dried his tears and realized the kitten would survive, he had just one request. Might he have the honor of naming the kitten? Absolutely, the Tabby’s Place staff said. What would you like to call her?
James smiled and gave his daughter’s middle name: Grace.
Grace is presently healing from her life-saving surgery, and is expected to make a full recovery. Tabby’s Place requests donations to help cover the costs of Grace’s surgery and continued care. Please visit http://www.tabbysplace.org/donation.php, or mail your check to Tabby’s Place at 1100 US Highway 202; Ringoes, NJ 08551.
Tabby’s Place is a cage-free, no-kill sanctuary for cats rescued from hopeless situations, located at 1100 US Highway 202, Ringoes, NJ, 08551, and online at www.tabbysplace.org.
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