When you enter the cat room in the city of Brenham’s Pet Adoption Center, tiny legs immediately start reaching through the bars, seeking just a little human contact, no matter how brief.
On this particular afternoon, a kitten had been rescued from a storm drain during a rainstorm last week. A persistent animal control officer got down on her hands and knees to snatch the kitten from an unhappy ending.
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