It was around 1 a.m. when this longtime cat pawrent was finally leaving their factory job. As they headed out, a little kitten appeared from underneath the turn table and walked straight into their hands. Apparently the Cat Distribution System also works the night shift.
There was absolutely no way they were leaving him there. Temperatures had been over 100 degrees, and the industrial road nearby stayed busy with traffic. This was no place for a little kitten to be wandering around alone.
So they loaded him into a crate and drove an hour to the nearest emergency vet. The plan was to surrender him there. They already had a rescued senior cat and another kitty under a year old at home, and finances were tight after life had thrown more than a few curveballs their way. A third cat was definitely not in the budget.
They tried. They really did.
But around 6 a.m., that kitten was heading right back home with them. The CDS had spoken.
He got flea treatment that night, followed by a trip to their regular vet the next day for dewormer and more care. Then came a much-needed bath, which transformed the little guy into one seriously fluffy marshmallow.
They named him Lil' Bit, and apparently he's just as sweet as he looks. He even has a marking on top of his head that looks like a heart, because clearly he needed one more trick to make himself impossible to resist.
His new pawrent admits another cat wasn't what they expected or needed right now. But Lil' Bit walked straight into the right hands that night, and those hands weren't about to let him down.