Girl Conceals Homeless Kitten in Her School Bag

Oct 2011

Written by Athina Collins of Athens, Greece

My daughter Maria phoned from school and asked to be picked up early because she wasn't feeling well. I immediately understood that something else was going on. I called back and spoke to her to see what was really happening.

"I have a kitten in my schoolbag," she said. "I found it in the schoolyard and it is wet and cold I am bringing it home."

I agreed to go and pick her up and bring her home even though it was raining at the time and we would have to walk to and from school. I was not that pleased to walk in the wet streets. But when I saw my daughter's face when she was telling me about her kitten and how she had rescued it I knew it was worth the wet shoes.

We brought the kitten home and dried up. It had caught a cold and needed medication for a few days. After that it just kept growing and getting cuter and cuter. She spent the first weeks in Maria's room. We named her Lolita. She is our baby-we have had here for a year now.