Now that the cold weather is finally here, now that you have to wear seven layers when you get out of the house, it's time to start paying attention. To cats. Obviously, we know that our audience is full of people who always keep an ear out for cats who need help. But now, you have to start doing it more than ever. Because while we can pull out those seven layers out of our closet and brave the cold world, cats do not have the same option. They have what they have, and when the cold hits, they don't have air conditioners to come home too.
Every cold season, we start coming across the same stories - people rescuing freezing cats. We cover an endless number of these stories, because we think that they are so important. Every time we write about a story like this, of someone rescuing a cat, we think about all of the cats who we're not writing about, all the cats who were not saved from the cold. We hate thinking about it, but we think that we, the writers of ICHC, with the platform that we have, need to remind people of this. Listen. Listen for the meows. And don't ignore them. If the kitten in this story wasn't saved when it was, then it would not have made it. You can save a kitten this winter in the same exact way. If you only listen.