From Homeless, to Healthy! (#2)

What you are seeing in the picture is a before & after picture of my kitten, Kaleb. In case you were wondering , no she's not a male. At first we thought she was, so that's why my family & I decided upon the name. We discovered her outside our church building, young & malnourished. We knew she had to have come from the two older cats we had seen living around the same area. For about a month, my mom, little brother & I brought her food, in fear of her dying out there with no food. It took us all a while to agree if we actually wanted to take her in or not. You know how it is, when your parents obviously know its what you should do, but they come up with every excuse possible to cause you not to get what you want. That was my mom. "She'll get hair all over the house. She'll stink up the bathroom. What if she has fleas? I'm guna have to spend money to buy her all the essentials (food, liter box, etc.)". Blah blah blah & so on. But in the end she was the one who caught her & brought her home. Then she began again to tell my brother and I that we had to take care of her, feed her, bathe her & so on. All my little brother and I cared about was that we had helped a helpless creature, & we now knew that she would have a safe home, good food and all the love she needed. Of course we gave her a flea bath before taking her in, & made sure she wasn't carrying along any unwanted critters into our house. You can't tell in the picture, but when she came home she had patches where there was no hair but there were wounds due to the insects that were sinking their teeth into her. Those wounds are now gone, & her fur is thick and beautiful. I'm glad my family & I took Kaleb in, and I feel like we did a good thing for a living creature.