Kitty Rescue

 

Mai Ling (L), Max (C), Gracie (R)

 

My Kitty got out one frigid day

Six months old she ran away
 

 She was gone so worried was I

Calling her and looking low and high
 

 Then one night I heard a sorrowful cry

There she was in a tree sixty feet high
 

 The temperature was low I think twenty four

I was scared this Kitten would fall to the floor
 

 Panic set in, what was I to do, I didn’t know

I couldn’t climb that tree, being old and so -
 

 I called the Fire Department of our local town

Fifteen young men came to help my Kitty down
 

 Quickly up the tree the young man went

Talking to her quietly she looked at him content
 

 He grabbed her tucking her close to his chest

Bringing her down safely, knowing she was a mess
 

 The first Kitty rescued by our town’s Firemen

Lucky Kitty a feline who committed this sin
 

 She looked at her Hero and gave a purring song

As if to say, I was scared…so what took you so long?
 

 - Rhoda Galgiani

Author's Note:

This is a true story of my Kitty Mai Ling in 2009 - I then found

Gracie as a Kitten and she had Asthma, so Mai Ling was adopted

by my close friend as I wasn't allowed to own 3 Kitties (I still had

Max at that time). The young Firemen in Patchogue, NY on LI were
on a training exercise and happy to help. Mai Ling now 9, Gracie 7
are doing well and are happy. Max passed in 2014 age 18 yrs. old...rg