<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of the Daily Mail (London, England) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2785369/Kitten-lost-leg-mousetrap-finds-new-home.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2785369/Kitten-lost-leg-mousetrap-finds-new-home.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orphaned kitten Babybel that lost her leg in a mousetrap has found a new home… and still loves cheese</h1><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </h1><ul class="mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Kitten got paw caught in trap while looking for food in Oxfordshire garden</strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong><br></strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Blue Cross vets feared cat, named Babybel, would never be re-homed</strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong><br></strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Adopted by animal lover Tasha Henderson as friend for her cat George, 4</strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong><br></strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Despite having three legs, Babybel 'jumps all over the place like a rabbit'</strong></font></li></ul><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A stray kitten who lost her right front paw in a mousetrap while looking for food has been adopted by new owners.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The tiny black and white cat was almost killed by her curiosity when the trap slammed shut on her leg and left her facing an agonizing and slow death.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But luckily a passer-by heard her faint cries coming from a garden in Lewknor, Oxfordshire, and took her to a local pet charity.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Staff named her Babybel after the small cheese and sent her to an animal hospital in London where vets performed the amputation. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cristina Bull, a veterinary surgeon at the charity, said that the trap had caused irreversible neurological damage which, along with an infection to the wound, had prompted the amputation.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said: 'Babybel was very lucky she was found otherwise she wouldn't have survived much longer.' </font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She was then taken in by the Blue Cross animal rescue charity who feared her injury would prevent her from finding a new home.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Babybel can now look forward to a life of comfort after being adopted by animal lover Tasha Henderson who wanted a friend for her four-year-old cat George.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tasha, 37, mother to three-year-old son Albie, said that the cat was 'fearless' despite her traumatic ordeal - and still loves to nibble on a piece of cheese.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tasha, who lives with her husband Adrian, 40, in Thame, Oxon, said: 'We wanted to get a kitten and had been on the list at Blue Cross for three months.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then we saw the pictures of her and thought she was adorable.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We've had her a couple of weeks now and she's absolutely mad. she jumps all over the place like a rabbit.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'She is totally fearless and after what happened she isn't scared of anything. She will even eat cheese.'</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blue Cross has cared for over 40,000 sick, injured and homeless pets every year since it opened the world's first animal hospital in 1906.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;">------------------</p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Home sweet home: Babybel the kitten relaxing on the sofa in her new home in Thame, Oxfordshire.<br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><img src="cid:E915CAB6-1D90-4F11-91EB-7009C8878B14" alt="image1.jpeg" id="E915CAB6-1D90-4F11-91EB-7009C8878B14"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;">--------------------</p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite having only three legs, Babybel is fearless say her new owners and 'jumps around like a rabbit'<br><br></span><img src="cid:C0675200-CD0F-4521-B7E3-4E3A7C1BC396" alt="image1.jpeg" id="C0675200-CD0F-4521-B7E3-4E3A7C1BC396"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;">--------------------------------------</p></div><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>