Kitten Found in Plant Nursery is So Happy to Be Helped and Determined to Get Back on Her Feet
A calico kitten who was found in a plant nursery, is determined to get back on her paws.
Earlier this year, Carmen Weinberg, the founder of Animal Friends Project, received a plea for help for a tiny kitten found in a large commercial plant nursery in Loxahatchee, Florida.
A worker was moving some planters when he spotted a calico with an injured paw. He brought the kitten to his coworkers and hoped to find her help. “Elsa (one of the coworkers) called me in a panic, asking me if I could come and get the kitten. I could hear the kitten crying loudly (in the background),” Carmen shared with Love Meow.
Carmen was about 40 minutes from the nursery. No one else was available at the time, so she got on her way to the kitten’s rescue.
When she arrived, Elsa rushed over with the kitten in her arms. The calico’s right front paw was severely damaged and she was covered in fleas. Carmen immediately took her to an animal hospital to be treated. “I held the kitten in my lap. She was very young. Her eyes were opened but her ears were still kind of folded.”
The kitten had two broken toes that needed to be removed. The vet who treated her, lovingly called her Toes, and the name stuck.
“He asked me if I was willing to bottle feed her and take her to the hospital every day for bandage changes. I agreed,” Carmen told Love Meow.
Toes or Twinkle Toes was so happy to have someone to care for her, that she purred nonstop. She visited the hospital daily to get her paw cleaned and bandage changed. “The staff at the hospital were always excited to see her.”
