A Happily Ever After Cat story!

[LynneSin]

About a few years ago I posted about how a kitten was found torn to shreads because she hid inside a school bus near the engine to stay warm. The bus driver turned on the school bus with the kitten in there and she was torn to shreds from being near the engine. Well the kitten has a happily ever after!

http://www.newsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060707/LIFE/607070322/1005/LIFE

Her misery over, Montana the cat is pleased, plump

Mike Dinsmore, an operations assistant at Tatnall, had driven a busload of eighth-graders to and from a field trip for a total of 20 miles, and the 7-month-old animal, unbeknownst to him, somehow had survived the journey beside a cluster of belts and fans.

Dinsmore, of Elsmere, noticed a frozen pool of blood and had a mechanic remove the mangled kitten from her perch.

A series of decisions led him to the Veterinary Specialty Center of Delaware, where veterinarians found Montana's lower jaw to have been fractured, her lower lip detached, a gash across her neck and her corneas scratched.

Medical costs, Dinsmore learned, could reach $2,000. He and his wife Carla decided to save the kitten's life rather than have her euthanized.

Scraggly and weak, Montana steadily recovered at the Dinsmores' home. For a while, they kept her separate from their five other cats. Look at her today, and you'd have no reason to think she wasn't always a plump, 12-pound cat with a beautiful coat of fur.

But the Dinsmores weren't alone in their struggle to save Montana. Members of the Tatnall staff, along with plenty of students, collected more than $1,000 to help pay the medical bills. And a story in The News Journal about the rescue spurred readers to send donations to the couple.

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BTW - my vet was involved with the care of this cat and this happened around the time that I had just found Abbott and brought him into my home. So when I saw the jar at the receptionist desk asking for donations even I chipped in a few dollars for Montana!

[REP]

1. Great Story! Great People!

My mother had a cat with a similar story: slept in the engine compartment, injured by the fan. Her injuries weren't nearly so horrific and she lived a long, spoiled rotten life.

[xchrom]

2. now that's how to treat animals!

i could not be happier for the cat -- that is just wonderful.