Maintenance lead’s sharp eyes lead to cat’s lucky day
By Andrea E. Petrich
Maintenance lead Doug Knott was simply about carried out cleansing up a host of gifts spilled alongside a street in Skagit County while he observed anything unusual: A pair of eyes staring at him from below a hubcap.
No, this isn’t the delivery of a Stephen King story. It’s the tale of an strange rescue.
Between cleansing up particles from crashes or spilled loads, and supporting of us who're stranded, our highway crews are at all times busy. On this specific day, the Washington State Patrol referred to as Doug to assist blank up a pile of clothes, bins and different presents that seemed to have fallen off a vehicle. While unlucky – please be counted to at all times safe your quite a bit – it wasn’t rather unusual.
The eyes, though, had been absolutely unusual.
Turns out, the eyes staring again at Doug had been from a cat who had been hiding among the debris. Doug grabbed his leather-based work gloves and labored to coax the cat out of its hiding place. For any folks who've cats, you know, it truly is not any simple task. It’s made all of the extra tough whilst you're making an attempt to maintain the cat from bolting onto the street and into passing traffic.
But simply name Doug the Cat Whisperer. He was capable to safe the cat – who his daughter aptly named Lucky. Doug took Lucky to a native vet and backyard of a damaged teeth and a few highway rash, discovered it to be in nice shape. They also discovered the cat didn’t have a microchip and the Humane Society of Skagit Valley had no stories of a lacking cat.
So Doug grew to become a foster dad to Lucky whereas we wait to see if the cat is claimed.
We don’t recognize how this cat ended up at the highway. Maybe Lucky fell off a car whereas being moved or hitched a experience by way of means of hiding in a car with out people noticing. Or possibly Lucky was simply in search of a warm region to hide. What we do recognize is that everybody – until possibly Doug’s puppy – is thankful that our caring crews have been there to discover and rescue Lucky.
If you’ve misplaced a cat and assume Lucky could be yours, please name Skagit Humane at 360-757-0445 and permit them recognize the cat’s gender and which road in Skagit County it would also just have been misplaced on/wandering near.
Maintenance lead Doug Knott was simply about carried out cleansing up a host of gifts spilled alongside a street in Skagit County while he observed anything unusual: A pair of eyes staring at him from below a hubcap.
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| Maintenance lead, Doug Knott, and Lucky after its highway rescue. |
No, this isn’t the delivery of a Stephen King story. It’s the tale of an strange rescue.
Between cleansing up particles from crashes or spilled loads, and supporting of us who're stranded, our highway crews are at all times busy. On this specific day, the Washington State Patrol referred to as Doug to assist blank up a pile of clothes, bins and different presents that seemed to have fallen off a vehicle. While unlucky – please be counted to at all times safe your quite a bit – it wasn’t rather unusual.
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| Lucky cleaning up |
The eyes, though, had been absolutely unusual.
Turns out, the eyes staring again at Doug had been from a cat who had been hiding among the debris. Doug grabbed his leather-based work gloves and labored to coax the cat out of its hiding place. For any folks who've cats, you know, it truly is not any simple task. It’s made all of the extra tough whilst you're making an attempt to maintain the cat from bolting onto the street and into passing traffic.
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| Lucky helping the guys with some of their dreaded paperwork |
But simply name Doug the Cat Whisperer. He was capable to safe the cat – who his daughter aptly named Lucky. Doug took Lucky to a native vet and backyard of a damaged teeth and a few highway rash, discovered it to be in nice shape. They also discovered the cat didn’t have a microchip and the Humane Society of Skagit Valley had no stories of a lacking cat.
So Doug grew to become a foster dad to Lucky whereas we wait to see if the cat is claimed.
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| Since being rescued from a Skagit County highway, Lucky follows his hero, Doug, around everywhere. |
We don’t recognize how this cat ended up at the highway. Maybe Lucky fell off a car whereas being moved or hitched a experience by way of means of hiding in a car with out people noticing. Or possibly Lucky was simply in search of a warm region to hide. What we do recognize is that everybody – until possibly Doug’s puppy – is thankful that our caring crews have been there to discover and rescue Lucky.
If you’ve misplaced a cat and assume Lucky could be yours, please name Skagit Humane at 360-757-0445 and permit them recognize the cat’s gender and which road in Skagit County it would also just have been misplaced on/wandering near.
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