RE CHARLIE BOY: Bring your Mat and Man's Best Friend

[Guest guest]

Bev McChesney here; I read Charlie Boy's story, and request

permission from the sender to use it on my site www.readnright.org

We are just starting a campaign to ask for people's animal stories,

and this one is so beautiful.

Read 'N Right is utilized not only to collect wonderful stories and

give readers a place to peruse, but is also used as a tool to raise

funds for the non profit rescue group, United Rescues of KY

www.urky.org

So please, if I can use Charlie Boys story, I'd be most

thankful....or if anyone wants to submit stories, please do. I'm

doing this from a remote site and it doesn't work as easily as doing

emails from home, so I hope Charlie Boy's owner/author sees this.

Thank you.

--

Jim or Bev McChesney

>

> I also can share a story about an animal with compassion... Not a

> dog, but my cat Charlie Boy.

>

> We had another cat, an orange fireball Cinnamon! She started kinda

> hiding out away from everyone & we soon realized she was very

sick.

> She stopped eating & lost so much weight we could feel her spine &

> hip bones within a week. Our vet kept her in the hospital &

hydrated

> her overnight. Then back at home we fed her & gave her water

through

> an eye dropper. Within a couple of days she would no longer take

in

> fluids even that way. We knew we had to take her the next day to

put

> her down. I put a fresh bowl of water down & eventually coaxed her

> over to it. She lay down by the bowl & rested her chin on the edge

> but just couldn't get enough strength to drink. Charlie had been

> watching from across the room. I started to cry cause I just

> couldn't bear to see Cinnamon suffer. Charlie walked over to the

> opposite side of the water dish & rested his chin on the edge, just

> like she did.... Then he gently started lapping water at Cinnamon

> with his tongue. As the water splashed on her face, she would lick

> it off. This continued for abour 4 or 5 minutes & Cinnamon DID

start

> to perk up a bit. Charlie Boy knew she needed to drink. We had

her

> put down the next morning & she passed with her pretty little head

in

> the palm of my hand. (She had cancer of the liver) Our vet said

> that was one of the best stories he'd heard about another animals

> compassion. Anyway, that's Charlie Boy & Cinnamon's story!

>