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                                 RESCUE!












        Little Apple was found on the side of the road!


        RedRover Junior Advisory Board Member, Audrey,
        shares her story of rescuing Apple the cat


        Do you ever wonder how some      It was a tiny black kitten who   We could hear her meowing,
        people find a rescue kitten?     was way too young to be out     but we could barely see her.
           Some people get lucky and     on her own.                     We crouched into the prickly
        a kitten just falls into their lap.   We slowly approached the   bushes and called to her sweetly.
        That’s what happened to me,      kitten, but she ran into the nearby   The kitten turned to me and
        at least!                        bushes. We looked and looked,   started to approach, but thorns
           Last October, my mom and      but with no success. We thought   were in the way, so she went
        I were at Apple Hill. Apple Hill is    we lost her, and we were about   towards my mom. The kitten
        a place in California where you   to give up when I heard a faint   sniffed my mom’s hand, and
        can pick your own apples and     “mew” coming from the bushes.   before the kitten could get away,
        pumpkins at farms. As we were    We were so happy, but we didn’t   my mom quickly grabbed her.
        starting to drive home, my mom   want to scare her because she   We carried the kitten to our car
        saw a small black creature out of   could run into the street! So I   and decided to call her Apple.
        the corner of her eye. She parked  slowly went back around to       I feel like the luckiest girl in
        her car, and we got out. We went  check if I could see her. I peered   the world to have found Apple.                                             Meet
        to the place where my mom said   into the bushes, and there she
        she saw the creature. Sure enough,  was! She looked at me, but then                                   cover: tara lenehan; this page: redrover.
        there was something there!       she dashed right into the street   Have a story to share about something             Claude:
                                         and into some blackberry bushes.    kind you’ve done? Tell us about it at
                                         We thought we would never        www.redrover.org/shareyourstory.
                                         get her out, but we still tried.


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