Here's a feel-good story to end the week. We need fluff every now and then, especially when it's this heartwarming. Meet Elsa the kitten:
Elsa, who is three to four months old, was found recently in the bitter Denver cold, just barely hanging onto life. She was limp and no longer shivering, with her eyes closed, but still clinging on. A good samaritan picked her up and rushed her to get medical help.
"You could sort of feel the cold coming off her," said the veterinarian, Dr. Kasey Carter, who treated the kitten at the shelter, the Denver Dumb Friends League.
Staff members pulled out hair dryers to warm the kitten's fur and placed her in heating pads with mittens to warm her paws. They even injected her with warm IV fluids and wrapped her in a bear hugger, a blanket device with a tube that blows in warm air.
The preferred temperature for a cat is 101.5. The kitten's temperature did not even register on a thermometer that measures temperature at 90 and up upon arrival at the shelter around 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
Finally, after an hour of treatment, she began to show signs of movement. She soon began eating. Now, she is in stable condition. The staff members who helped her gave her the name Elsa after the main character of Disney's
Frozen, both for the obvious reason and because of her fighting spirit.
If this miracle kitty doesn't warm your heart, I give up.
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