Little Miss Kit

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    Little Miss Kit, residing at a Halfway Home Pet Rescue foster home, relaxes in the arms of volunteer Anne Price of Presque Isle. After Little Miss Kit had her bath and bottle feeding, she was ready for a nice nap on a medium heat pad. President of HHPR Norma Milton explained that orphan kittens rely on humans for the kindness and teaching. In addition to the adult cats that have sought help from HHPR recently, more than 45 kittens — most of them orphan — have been lovingly cared for by the HHPR dedicated volunteers this summer. On initial entry, Kit was very ill and had to spend almost a week in the hospital before being discharged into an experienced foster home. Because of the unusually high number of kittens and cats seeking help from HHPR this spring/summer, HHPR has recently sent nine 3- to 4-month old kittens to a South Windham rescue and will be sending another 5 kittens and 2 mother cats to a Westbrook rescue on August 12. With the high rate of intake stray cats comes the higher medical bills and Milton says that HHPR volunteers are very grateful for the kindness of this community sharing in our recycle programs of used shoes, returnable bottles, used name brand ink cartridges, “and we are also extremely grateful for the businesses that allow our collection jars for customer to leave change,” she said mentioning the blessing of  supplies left in the HHPR shopping cart at the Caribou Shop ‘N Save. “These options help us to earn our way helping these homeless animals,” she added, as HHPR doesn’t receive municipal or state funding. Adoption hours at our HHPR Adoption Center at 489 Main St., in Caribou are on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. Special appointments can be made to adopt a kitten by calling Mary at 999-1075.