The "How Could Anyone Do That To Two Defenseless Cats?" Story

It was an ordinary day.  I had just opened my morning LNP newspaper and saw the photograph of those two sorrowful looking tiger cats.  They both looked just like my cat Snickerdoodle whom my wife, Carol, and I rescued from our back deck on Harrington Drive a few years ago.  Snickerdoodle had it easy in comparison to the two cats that were featured in the newspaper.  Snickerdoodle was a stray cat who showed up at our back door while the two cats in the newspaper were found in an old heavy wooden box that had no air holes.  Laurie Horst was visiting Pet Pantry in Manor Township to buy cat food for her brood of cats when she saw an old wooden box sitting on the front counter of the store.  The box had a picture of a machine gun on one end of it with the letters DAD etched along one side of the wooden box.  Laurie asked one of the people at Pet Pantry what the box was doing on the front counter.  She was told that a Good Samaritan found the box and when the wooden, air-tight box was opened they found two rather large tiger cats stuffed in the airtight box that was strapped together with zip ties.  Now, who could have, or would have, placed two large cats in an airtight wooden box and left them to die?  Someone was watching over the cats that day, since the Good Samaritan that found them was led to the wooden box that was at the Kensington Club Apartments on Misty Drive in Lancaster, PA.  The cats were stuffed in the airtight box so tight that they could hardly move.  Somehow, the Good Samaritan saw the wooden box and heard their cries and opened the box to find the two in the box.  They couldn't have been in the box too long or they would have been dead by the time the box had been found and opened.  Now, someone must help Pet Pantry and take the two strays since Pet Pantry is filled to the brim with cats and kittens since this is currently "kitten season" and they are over stocked with cats and kittens.  Neither of the male cats that were in the wooden box was neutered.  The owner of Pet Pantry called a neighbor who agreed to take the pair of cats that was rescued.  The neighbor, Dee Henry, is a volunteer who traps, fixes, and finds homes for the homeless cats that roam the neighborhoods of Lancaster County.   The cats that were left for dead are both docile and loving.  A friend of Dee's named them Lucien and Callum, Latin for light and peace.  Now Henry is trying too find a good home for the two cats.  It could be they are brothers and are good with each other.  As of now, the cats are up for adoption at Pet Pantry which can be reached at 717-983-8878.  My wife and I would love to have the two lovely cats, but the retirement community where we have recently moved, only allows us to have 2 cats and The Gray Lady and Snickerdoodle have filled those two spots!  If the two cats that were found are as nice as they look in the picture, you would certainly be in for a treat by adopting them.  Please call the number listed above and make a visit to see if you could give them a home!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.