I found Baby Bear when I was working at a prison. I was conducting an outside perimeter check on a very hot summer day two years ago and heard a faint cry from inside a locked tool room that I had never been in. I searched through my collection of about 40 keys until I found the correct one to get into the hot tool room. I searched around in the dirty cluttered room until I found the source of the cry. It was a baby kitten, about two days old. His fur was full of dirt and his mouth and nose were full of particles of gravel as he had been sucking on the ground trying to find nourishment. He was barely breathing and dehydrated when I found him; I did not think he'd make it. I took him to my vet immediately and got him on fluids. I bottle fed him until he was old enough to eat on his own. We planned on adopting him out when he was old enough, but after seeing how wonderful he was, we couldn't let him go!

Melani Lainhart
Pensacola, FL