clap: Meet Andrea - yesterday, she was cowering alongside a narrow portion of Hwy. 49, in the Sierra foothills. Today, she is playing happily in our livingroom - she passed her vet check & had her first baby shots! What is amazing is how desperate her situation was, yet she wasn't giving up, wasn't panicking - she was stranded at the edge of the pavement, the adjacent embankment too steep for escape, the highway too busy with Sunday afternoon traffic to dare to cross. She cowered away from the passing cars, but as we passed, she looked at me, made eye contact & in the briefest of instants, I saw a tiny mouth meow. Shocked, I realized that she wasn't a baby opposum - she was a KITTEN! Almost hysterically, I insisted that my husband go back & he miraculously made a very tight U-turn without going over the embankment or getting hit by the oncoming cars. We had to overshoot Andrea's location, to find a wide spot to make another U-turn to put us back in our original direction. By some miracle, she recognized our car, and skittered down the edge of the road to where we were turning around. I dashed out along the embankment, she ran to me - what a GRATEFUL, HAPPY KITTEN! She was STARVED, DIRTY, but RESCUED!. We had to make a little side-trip to find a WalMart to buy a carrier, toys, small litter box & litter; after a snack of canned food, she had a good nap & 2 hours later woke up & OH, it was so wonderful to hear her little toys being jingled in the carrier. She made the 4-hour plus trip like a real trooper; she made it HOME
