Kindness 53 has some back story: My husband was outside Thursday night and saw a neighbourhood cat get hit by a truck. It ran away and he found it 45 minutes later, and asked a neighbour to let him keep it in his garage so it wouldn't run away again. He called for an emergency vet and it was taken away, but it was so banged up that he couldn't say whether the cat would make it or not.
Fast forward to Friday, and I went around the neighbourhood to ask whose cat it was. I didn't know the owner, because I didn't see the cat, but I thought whoever it was would like to know what had happened. It turned out it belonged to a girl I know from the school bus stop, and one of Jimmy's acquaintances. She was so upset and so was the little boy.
I called SPCA several times that day, and finally they told me they couldn't give me any information if I wasn't the owner. So I set up a calling time for the owner and let her borrow my phone for a couple hours, because she didn't have any minutes left on hers. Her husband was able to call and figure everything out, because he was able to describe the cat. The happy ending is, the cat will be okay. I think it needs some more medical attention because he has a broken jaw and probably some broken ribs too, but he's going to live.
Kindness 54 wasn't nearly so dramatic or emotional. Yesterday was Jimmy's birthday party, and one of his friends wanted to come but his mom couldn't walk all that way with three kids, so she had called and told em he couldn't make it. I offered to send my husband to go pick him up, because Jimmy and this boy are very good friends and for us, it's only a couple minutes of driving.
That covers Friday and Saturday. The cat owners were very grateful, both for my husband finding the cat and the use of my phone to figure things out. The mother of the boy was grateful, but even more important, the little boy was happy to be here and had a great time.
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