Weekend-Engagement topics: WEEK 193 // Saving a life

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Greetings dear friends, I hope you are having a happy weekend. Reading the interesting proposals of friend @galenkp in Weekend Engagement Topics: WEEK 193, I decided to develop the following alternative:


Have you saved a life (animal or human)? Tell us the story. This must be a true story, not fictional. Remember to use your own photos.

For as long as I can remember I have always felt love and compassion for animals, which is why I have helped them, and yes, I have saved some lives. Seeing the furry ones in deplorable conditions in the street is something that inevitably causes me a lot of pain and I told myself that if I could, I would save them all so they could have a better life. I didn't understand why I felt so much pain in the face of so much indifference and that I didn't know anyone as sensitive as I was to seeing so many abandoned and sick animals. However, when I started using the social network facebook I found many people who like me love animals, since then, I joined several foundations, I was very happy, I realized that I was not alone.

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Being part of these foundations gave me the opportunity to help dogs and cats in street conditions, besides reporting cases that escaped from my hands, when the help needed the specialized intervention of a veterinarian. Saving the life of an animal has been a reason for criticism in my person, I remember that once someone told me that I helped animals (as if they were not important), and asked me why I did not do it with people. That made me a little indignant, of course I would help my fellow man, but they, the animals, those who have no voice, are not 100% independent, they depend on us humans, they cannot heal themselves, nor can they provide themselves with a healthy diet. If we who are rational beings need help, imagine them. Faced with his reproach I could have asked him how many humans you help, surely none, and animals, even less, but I decided not to say anything to him.

Saving a life...a story with a happy ending feliz


A few years ago, while I was working with my computer in the living room of my house, suddenly I began to hear some meowing, they were of a small kitten, I heard it in the distance, but then, the sound was intensifying more and more and I could not resist to look for the protagonist of that subtle racket. I went out to the porch and nothing, the kitten was meowing loudly, but I couldn't see it, they were so small. Until I finally saw him, as soon as the tiny little thing saw me, he ran straight to my house and slipped through the bars. He was dirty and his cheek was detached, it gave me a lot of pain and I gave him entrance to my house, even though I couldn't keep him.

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The first thing I did was to bathe him and clean his wound with hydrogen peroxide, this issue deserved medical attention, so after giving him food and water, I contacted a foundation that offered me help, but first, I had to send some pictures of the kitten's condition. The next day I delivered him, he was evaluated and days later he was operated. I received some post-surgery photos and days later I was contacted to receive wonderful news, the kitten had been adopted and they had named him Coco. If I had not helped him for sure this baby kitten would have had a tragic destiny alone and helpless in the streets.

Thanks for reading


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Es una gran y bonita historia, que bueno que ayudaste a ese tierno gatito, fue a tu casa por ayuda y llegó a la persona indicada, me gustan los gatos, gran obra.

Saluds

This is what the girl I contacted at the foundation told me, that the kitten came to me because I was the right person to help him. I was very happy when he was operated and when I knew that he was adopted by a good family, even more. Greetings