Found on the streets, starving, dehydrated, and extremely sick, he was taken to a public kill shelter to live out his remaining days, it was kitten cat death row.
A tiny kitten was found on the streets in South Korea, with at least several health conditions. If that wasn’t enough, he was completely starved, and dehydrated, along with an upper respiratory infection.
They thought he wouldn’t make it, so he was taken to a public kill shelter, put in a wire cage with food and water. They also gave him a blanket to live out the remainder of his life till that fateful last day.
Just when all hope was lost a woman named Rachel Brown asked about the completely white, rather sick-looking kitten that might be up for adoption.
She had been searching for weeks for just the right cat to welcome into her home.
She came to meet the kitten who was to be later named, rather appropriately, Jon Snow, she saw how exhausted he was and knew she had met the right cat for her.
Once she met him, Rachel couldn’t stop thinking about him. The shelter staff told her he wouldn’t make it, that he wasn’t adoptable anyway. But she was determined Jon Snow was coming home with her, that was all there was to it!
So the paperwork was all filled out, and Jon Snow was released from death row and immediately rushed to an emergency vet. The news was not good!
“As soon as I saw him, my heart leaped and then sank,” Brown explained to Inside Edition. “I instantly loved him, but he looked so sick and so sad.”
“When I took Jon out of the shelter, I think he knew he had been saved,” stated Brown. “While we were traveling on trains to the vet, he wanted to keep me in his sight; if he couldn’t see me through the mesh, he would meow.”
When they arrived at the vet, the doctors informed Brown that Jon had no chance of survival. According to Brown, they discovered he had a coronavirus, which is usually fatal and incurable. “I couldn’t give up on him,” she said.
On the third day of his hospitalization, the cat suddenly began to eat normally after being placed on an IV drip. He had a surprising boost of energy and even started to play to his heart’s content. After the fifth day, Jon Snow was actually better than ever.
The doctors took him off the IV, and his blood tests came back completely normal. The curious cat now lives peacefully, following his new owner all around the house and sleeping soundly on several pillows.
“He is the happiest kitty and that makes me so happy,” Brown stated.
