Meet Princess Monster Truck, an interesting looking cat with a story to tell.

Princess Monster Truck was found “tumbling out of a bush” by artists Tracy Timmons and Joseph Bryce when they were on their way home one night. “Her hair was totally matted, she was really thin, and obviously hungry,” said Tracy.

“Because she is all black and it was night time we didn’t completely see the teeth until she looked up at us and let out a really weird howl/meow. When I saw her face I kind of shrieked and said, ‘What is it?”"

“We decided we couldn’t leave her, she didn’t look like a survivor, and so we led her to our house. I carried her at some points crossing streets and then sometimes put her down to allow her to follow.”

“When we took her into the vet, and after they stopped laughing about her, I had to ask whether they thought Monster was born that way or whether something happened to her.”

“The vet assured me that this looked like a condition from birth the way her jaw was structured, and these kinds of thing happen commonly in Persian breeds and she thanked me for bringing her into get her fixed. ‘It stops here!’ she said.”

Princess Monster Truck crept into their hearts and the rest is history.

Meet Princess Monster Truck, an interesting looking cat with a story to tell

She was rescued from the streets, completely matted. 2 artists from Brooklyn, New York, found her and gave her a second chance at life

Monster became the princess of their lives and she flourished in her new home

She is the boss in the house

…and a sweet heart.

Photos by Tracy Timmons and Joseph Bryce. Follow Princess Monster Truck on Instagram.

Source: Buzzfeed.

13 cats, three adult cats and 10 kittens were found in a plastic tote sealed with duct tape. Laura Baumli found the tote while walking her dog. She took the cats home, gave them food and called the Coastal Humane Society for help.

No one knows how long the cats had been kept in the tote, but they are all healthy. “We have no doubt these kittens and cats will make it into fantastic homes. We got lucky that Laura found them when she did,” said Darlene Brunick via wgme. [Watch video below]

Laura Baumli found 13 cats and kittens sealed into a plastic tote

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Photos by Coastal Humane Society. Source: wgme.

Three tiny 2-week-old kittens were found starving by the Cat House on the Kings after they lost their mother. Soon they discovered that one of the kittens named Bubbles came with “an injury of some sort” that would require surgery.

At such tender age, surgery is a very risky choice, but that was the only possible way to keep the tiny little guy alive. “After working so hard to bring him this far, we’re not ready to give up on him.”

So the next day, they took Bubbles to the operation room despite the risks. The fragile little bottle baby made it through. “Tammy (the fosterer) was able to get her to eat several times (after the surgery)… the rest of the time she stayed snug and warm on a heating pad in her little blanketed carrier. The vet said that all of her intestines had been entangled in a knot and he did his best to untangle them.”

One day after the surgery, Bubbles gained a much bigger appetite and was doing better by the minute.

It’s amazing how resilient the little kitten is despite her age. Bubbles is a little fighter who doesn’t give up on life.

Bubbles, tiny 2-week-old kitten, needs surgery to save her life

just one day after the surgery, Bubbles is eating like a champ!

Photos by The Cat House on the Kings. Follow them on Facebook.

A homeless cat named Joe was born without eyelids, but now can see thanks to a veterinarian and efforts from a Manitoba community.

When Joe was only 4 weeks old, he was brought into the vet clinic for an eye infection. “He was very little at four weeks, just a pound,” said Birte Klug, veterinarian.

They didn’t notice that the kitten had no eyelids at first, but the eye infection kept coming back, and it was then they found out that Joe never developed top lids.

“Knowing… it would be very expensive surgery, the client surrendered Joe.” Joe had difficulty seeing even though he had eyesight. “It is very rare. I have never seen that before in my career of 15 years,” she added.

“Originally I was thinking, ‘Well, we don’t want to have him suffer, and we’ll put him down,’ but the technicians convinced me to find out if I can help him. A specialist from New York said, ‘Don’t put him down. We can help this cat.’”

They decided to give Joe the $2,500 surgery he needed. Noelle La Croix, a veterinary ophthalmologist, agreed to come in on her day off to perform the surgery for free. Also, Klug had a small fundraiser to help pay for the materials according to CBCNews.

They used their own money to accompany Joe on a flight to New York for the surgery. Now Joe has returned to Klug’s clinic and is “in good spirits.”

“He will not look like a perfectly normal cat, but he does have vision in both eyes,” said Klug. Now Joe can finally see thanks to those who never gave up on him.

Joe the cat born with no eyelids gets a chance to see again

They never gave up on him. The vets volunteered to help Joe through the entire process

After the surgery, Joe and his vet

Source: CBCNews.

A tiny six-week-old kitten owes his life to a CFB Borden Air Force technologist named Shawn Matchett.

Just after the Battle of York parade April 27, Matchett spotted a kitten running onto the street. ”He came flying out into the middle of the road. A (City of Toronto) maintenance truck stopped and the cat ran under the truck. I climbed under the truck. He had gotten up into the shocks of the truck behind the back wheel. I got him down and didn’t see his injury at first. He clung right to me and was scared. He smelled like garbage and was really dirty,” Shawn recalled.

Shawn realized the kitten had a badly injured leg and he knew he couldn’t just leave him there. He took the kitten to a local vet clinic where they suggested the kitten’s right-rear leg be amputated in order to save his life.

“This guy was so young and had such a life ahead of him, so I said go ahead. When I saw him, it was shocking.”

Matchett paid for the $500 surgery took the kitten with him. When he stopped at PetSmart to pick up some supplies, he came across two Street Cats volunteers who saw the kitten’s condition and offered to help the kitten recuperate. “…now little BRAVO is safe in our care. We’ve named him ALPHA BRAVO as Shawn is a member of the Canadian Forces & we think the name is a fitting tribute to that fact,” Street Cats wrote.

“It’s amazing how strong he (Bravo) is,” he added.

Shawn Matchett saves a tiny 3-legged kitten. He is named Alpha Bravo.

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When people doubt that a blind cat can have a quality and happy life, Lucy the rescue cat who can’t see has proven them wrong. This is her story.

“I left late for work one day. I usually took a dirt side road to get to the main road… At night, some people come to this area to hang out and make fires. You see lots of trash the morning after. But, today I noticed something unusual as I drove by, a shoe box. As soon as I saw it and as I was passing it, I thought, how odd! I continued to look at it through the rear-view mirror when I noticed something fluffy jump out of the shoe box. It registered in a second that it was a small kitten. I stopped the car and reversed towards the shoe box. I got out of the car and climbed the sand hill, where I saw it run, all this in my proper work attire. I saw it run behind a plastic road block, left there by construction workers years before. I called out to her and she came running towards me. I picked her up and walked back to the car. I called work and told them I was going to be late,” said Rashe Nejd.

“I drove to the vets to have her looked at. At a stop light, I peeked into the box and noticed that she had fallen asleep. She was so calm even when I picked her up. I left her with the vet and went to work.”

When she returned to the vet, she got the news. “She told me that Lucy was blind but otherwise healthy. She asked me if I wanted to put her to sleep. I said, no, why would I do that. She told me that Lucy could have a lot of problems like she wouldn’t know where the litter box was or she would continuously run into things hurting herself. She told me that I could keep her but I would have to create a stable environment and not move furniture around etc…” It was never a problem for Rashe to keep Lucy because she knew Lucy would be able to live normally despite her condition.

“Well, Lucy learned everything pretty quickly. She learned where her litter box was and never even once had an accident. She grooms herself and plays with Mahboob (another cat). Occasionally she bumps into things but it doesn’t faze her. She loves to jump on the kitchen counter using echo-location and up on her cat tower,” she added.

“She is pretty much very normal in all ways. She is and continues to be an inspiration.”

Lucy the blind cat was found in a shoe box. The vet didn’t believe that she could survive, but she’s proven them wrong.

Happy and loved

Lucy all grown up today.

Photos courtesy of Rashe Nejd. Follow Lucy’s updates on Facebook.

A grey kitten who had fallen down a pipe was crying for help at an apartment complex. Firefighters came, but found it difficult to rescue the kitten since the kitty was trapped down six feet of pipe and the electrical wiring was in the way.

They called Time Warner Cable for assistance. Matt Williams and Scott Bird responded to their call early Sunday morning. They spent two hours digging down into the ground, trying to bring the kitty to safety. Once they got the kitten out, he was cold and wet but was doing fine. They named the little one Lil Warner who will soon go to a new home in Campwood, Texas.

Lil Warner saved from underground pipe by cable workers

Kitty and the cable workers who saved him

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