While life was initially sour for a stray kitten in Nanaimo, it has sweetened significantly after the cat was adopted by a veterinary hospital employee.

Lemon was brought to the B.C. SPCA facility in Nanaimo last summer after suffering paralysis in its back legs from a dog attack. Amy Hunt, a veterinary tech assistant at VCA Canada Island Animal Hospital on Bowen Road, fostered and subsequently adopted the orange cat, which is receiving treatment and seeing a good quality of life.

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Hunt says acupuncture and electro-acupuncture regenerates nerve-building and gets nerves that would normally be dormant B次元官网网址渢o fire,B次元官网网址� while laser therapy increases blood flow.

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Lemon even had the chance to pay it forward, acting as a surrogate sibling to a pair of orphaned kittens, Leo and Oliver, who were surrendered in June and who Hunt took on as fosters. She refers to the pair as the tangerines, as they are also orange.

Hunt said Lemon has taught Leo and Oliver B次元官网网址渉ow to cat,B次元官网网址� according to a press release from B.C. SPCA Nanaimo branch, as orphaned kittens are sometimes B次元官网网址渁 bit wild,B次元官网网址� with no grooming skills or how to partake in responsible play, and Lemon has taught the two kittens just that.

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The kittens will be heading to their adoptive families on Wednesday, Aug. 12 and Hunt refers to it as both happy and sad.

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