Your Feel-Good Kitty Story Of The Day

SOOO sweet!!!  This is how they worm their way into our hearts!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a really, really sweet story that I sent to Ellen Degeneris, thinking it would surely get my friend and her kitten on the show to tell their story.  Here it is:

My friend is severely allergic to cats.  She once came into our apartment when we were selling everything before we moved.  She could only stay for a few minutes and she was sneezing terribly.  She's very sweet.  She had birds and other pets.  She was walking past a store parking lot and thought she heard a tiny cry coming from a garbage area.  She investigated and found a tiny kitten in a ziploc bag, placed in a shoebox and tossed into the garbage!!!  She rescued the kitten, took her to the vet and got her all healthy.  She didn't think she could keep her, but she tried.  She somehow overcame her allergies to cats and did fine!!!  Her kitty, Baby Lucy, was just the most adorable, loving kitty.  She'd ask me all cat questions and advice.  I'm her "aunt".  She's thriving and is now 5 years old.

In the meantime she found another little baby kitten abandoned in an alleyway and took that one too!!!  It's a boy and she named him Ricky (Lucy & Ricky!!).  Adorable.  They look like they could be mother and son and they're best friends, although Ricky is more wild.  They both love the birds.  They sit outside on their balcony of her highrise in NJ, overlooking the Hudson river.  Her allergies are still fine!!!

I thought that this story of my amazing friend taking in 2 kittens, despite her severe allergy to them, was incredible.  And how someone could be SO cruel to toss away Baby Lucy that way was beyond all of us, but she saved her!!  She got to her in time!  I'm SO proud of my friend and now she knows what it's like to be living with these cats who adore her!