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to restore the faith in humanity of every- one who comes in contact with him. The story began when a woman tak-
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ing a walk in Ventura, Calif., stumbled upon Charlie, a cat that had been run over by a car and left to die. Charlie had suffered severe head trauma, including a broken jaw and an eye hanging from its socket.
A neighbor offered to drive the
woman and the mangled feline to the nearby Oakview Animal Clinic. Karen Sama, DVM, discovered
Charlie was microchipped but not registered to an owner. The microchip company informed Sama that Charlie most likely came from a shelter. She contacted local shelters and found out a woman named Judy Schwocho had adopted the cat. However, after conducting an Internet search, Sama learned Schwocho had died. Continuing her detective work,
Doctor’s detective work leads to happy ending
t sounds like something you’d find on the Disney Channel: A cat struck by an apparent hit-and-run driver lives
Sama called a relative mentioned in Schwocho’s obituary. The relative, in turn, directed Sama to Ray and Judith Cosh. They were friends of Schwocho, who had asked them to care for Charlie shortly before she died from cancer. They rushed to the hospital and told
Sama and fellow veterinarian Robert Fryer, DVM, to do everything they could to save the animal. Charlie survived the surgery and was
sent home, where he was tube-fed until he regained his ability to chew. Then a stranger appeared at the
Coshes’ doorstep. He was the driver who had run over Charlie. The man told them he had stopped
his car, but left after hearing someone say he would look after the cat. The driver later heard about the cat’s
miraculous recovery from a neighbor and felt compelled to come forward. Then he wrote out a check for $3,000 to pay for Charlie’s medical bills. “Who’d have ever thought that
somebody would come to the door and voluntarily identify themselves and offer to pay?” Ray Cosh told Scrippsnews. “And that was money we didn’t have. “In a day where we sometimes don’t
think there are very many nice people, Charlie brought a whole bunch of nice people together.”
Poll finds where owners are getting their pets Where are your clients getting their
pets? An Associated
Press-Petside.com poll found that the most common way people obtain a pet is as a gift. The next most common way was taking in a stray. Other statistics revealed that: Thirty percent of those polled say they adopted through a shelter, 31% got a pet from a breeder and 14% bought an animal at a pet store. Another quarter obtained a pet in some other way, including 3% who say they went to an animal rescue group and 2% who
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purchased a pet using an online or print classified ad.
About 4 in 10 pet owners say at least one of their current pets was given to them by friends or family. One-third of pet owners say they have a pet that showed up on their doorstep as a stray. Shelters and breeders are next on the list as sources for pets.
Cat owners are more likely than dog owners to have adopted a stray or shelter animal. Forty-three percent of cat owners polled say one of their pets came from a shelter, compared with 29% of dog owners. More than half of cat owners (52%) say one of their current pets was a stray, compared with 30% of dog owners.
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