The pictures are from an article published today on The Huffington Post by Alexandra Zaslow.
Earlier
this year, we wrote about the interspecies love between
a cat called Lurlene and a pit bull puppy called Noland.
Now,
six months later, the Cleveland Animal Protective
League, the organization that rescued the pair, has won a $25,000 grant
from the Petco Foundation's 'Holiday Wishes Grant Campaign' contest.
A
humane officer from the APL had stumbled upon a day-old pit bull covered in
fleas in a Cleveland garage, Cleveland.com reported.
When the officer couldn't find his mother, she took the puppy to APL.
When the officer couldn't find his mother, she took the puppy to APL.
The team decided to place
Noland with Lurlene, who had also been taken off the streets and had recently
given birth to four kittens.
Molly, Noland's mother, was
discovered later that day looking anxious and famished. Her owner, who was
later convicted of animal neglect, had her chained up behind the home.
Since Molly was unable to care
for Noland herself and he'd been getting along so well with Lurlene and her
kittens, they decided to have the puppy stay with Lurlene's family in a foster
home until he was old enough for adoption. He would occasionally go back to the
shelter to play with his mom.
"Noland blended in with
the family so well, he was even found using the litter box a few times,"
Judy Hunter, APL's director of development, wrote to Petco.
Sharon
Harvey, APL's director, said their story encompasses all of APL's values,
including "learning from them about the power of forgiveness and
unconditional love and acceptance. And when you get right down to
is," Harvey told Cleveland.com, "that's really what it's all about,
isn't it?"
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