<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of Delaware Online (Wilmington, Delaware) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130922/NEWS/130922008/Wilmington-officer-rescues-kitten">http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130922/NEWS/130922008/Wilmington-officer-rescues-kitten</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div>
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<h1 style="padding-bottom: 8px; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 30px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Wilmington officer rescues kitten</h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Wilmington Police Officer Daniel Humphrey is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a near-dead kitten
from an unoccupied Wilmington apartment.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">The landlord of a two-apartment house in the 1900 block of Lancaster Ave. called 911 after the upstairs
tenant heard glass break and suspected an intruder was in the vacant downstairs.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Officer Rusty Reed, Humphrey and his partner Cpl. Erik Meese responded, finding the first floor had a
broken back window. The upstairs tenant let them into the building and the officers jimmied the downstairs
apartment’s locked door.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">“Whoever left the apartment left personal belongings, an old mattress, clothes everywhere, left-over food
that never got thrown away, garbage. There were roaches and fleas everywhere,” Humphrey said, and
there were empty heroin bags. “It was disgusting.”
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Then they started finding kittens, a total of five scattered around, all dead, and no sign of their mother. “It
was a pretty disturbing sight, especially if you’re an animal lover,” he said.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">The officers were about to leave, Humphrey said, “and as I was turning around I heard a little kitten just
meow.”
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">The hunt was on. “We were just looking, looking, looking and couldn’t find it,” he said. They looked
through the scattered clothes, under furnishings, “searching and searching ... hunting through rubbish and
moving everything.”
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Then there was another sound. “If he didn’t chirp, we wouldn’t have found him,” Humphrey said. “Finally,
we found this little guy sitting behind a door next to a shoe ... hidden away.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">“He was smaller than the dead kittens, way underweight and just covered with fleas,” he said.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">As Officer Reed called the Delaware SPCA to start a cruelty investigation, Humphrey put the kitten into a
laundry basket with some clothes and drove straight to Faithful Friends Animal Society.
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">The kitten, thought to be 3 or 4 weeks old, was in extremely critical condition, said Jane Pierantozzi,
executive director of the nonprofit, no-kill shelter in Germay Industrial Park near Elsmere.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">--------------------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wilmington Police Officer Daniel Humphrey is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a near-dead kitten from an unoccupied Wilmington apartment.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:60F96417-D379-40D6-84A0-206EF58EBC80" alt="bilde.jpeg" id="60F96417-D379-40D6-84A0-206EF58EBC80" width="534" height="398"></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">-------------------- </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The cat rescued from the apartment is growing and in fair condition after a blood transfusion and other care. </span></p><p><img src="cid:C23DAC8B-8661-4270-85D0-709BEF3DA9E4" alt="bilde.jpeg" id="C23DAC8B-8661-4270-85D0-709BEF3DA9E4" width="300" height="400"></p></div></div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya at the Homecoming Parade, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>