Natural disasters are one of my biggest personal fears. They come out of nowhere, there are few ways to prepare, there isn't really anyone to blame, and they are always devastating. Floods are like that. Over the past few months, some of the flooding footage that we have seen has been amazing - in the purest meaning of the word. It has left me amazed. Lives turned upside down, washed away, changed within a moment. We look at the people, the structures, but I don't think that most people think about the beautiful wildlife experiencing the same disasters too.
Being a stray newborn kitten is hard enough as it is. Having to learn how the world functions so early and so quickly, just to survive, is hard. Having to do all of that during a flood… impossible. The itty bitty kitten in this story never had a chance to learn. The flood came out of nowhere, he was swept away, and finding her family within all that madness, when he still needed his momma there for basic needs like food, was not something that he could do. That's where we have to come in. People like us, people with compassion for animals, we can try to help. We won't be able to save them all, but every life saved is one worth celebrating.