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Smile Newsletter: Turning Grief Into Giving

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Aug 5, 2012
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Freed: Cat With Head Trapped in Jar for 6 Days

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August 5, 2012

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Freed: Cat With Head Trapped in Jar for 6 Days

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

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Freed: Cat With Head Trapped in Jar for 6 Days

“I feel like I have experienced a truly blessed event. A member of my feral colony, usually one of the friendlier cats, got a plastic jar stuck on his head. His entire head enveloped in hard plastic, he was completely unable to eat or drink. I first saw him this way on a Saturday night. I spent hours trying to get him to trust me to get close enough so that I could remove the jar. But, completely vulnerable and positively panicked, the cat was far too skittish to permit me to get near.” A real-world story of the rescue of a starving cat whose head had been trapped in a jar for 6 days. { read more }

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