Tiger

First written November 2016. Later updates follow the original story.

In 2012, Yeepun’s sister Mee heard a kitten crying in the parking lot where she worked in Bangkok. At the edge of the lot, in a small garden area, she found him living in a homemade cage made of trash and a net someone had set up for him. Mee gave him some water in a plastic bottle and went in to work.

On her lunch break she asked around. Someone had found the kitten in the middle of a busy road and brought him to the parking lot because it was safer. There had been a dead kitten near where he was found, so this person didn’t know what to do except move him somewhere else. His plan was to keep the kitten in the parking lot and feed him there, because he couldn’t take him home.

The kitten was safe from the cars, but he was clearly very sick, and Mee knew he would not live much longer in that parking lot. She took him home and named him Tiger.

At the vet it turned out Tiger was severely dehydrated. The vet treated him, but for the next few weeks Tiger was in and out of the clinic with one problem after another.

Tiger made a full recovery. Today he is very healthy, thanks to the love of Mee, Mom and Yeepun.

His only problem these days is that he lives in a small kennel with eleven other cats and needs a space he can claim as his own, and more room to be active. We are raising money to build a larger play area for Tiger and the others.