Special Therapy Cat Named Scooter

Forwarded by *Richi*
Saturday, 3 November 2012 11:35 AM 


Scooter the cat who moves around on his custom-made wheelcart is a therapy cat who gives love and new hope to those who feel sick. This special kitty has inspired so many with his stories that he has recently been named the Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

Scooter was brought to Dr. Betsy Kennon with injuries which left him paraplegic, but he was cheerful and in good spirit despite not being able to mobilize his hind legs. A wheelcart was made for him. Once he was strapped on, he was off to go walking around, and could not get enough of his new gadget. Scooter touched people who had come across him and been part of his journey, but his story did not just end there. He became a therapy cat at Health South Harmarville Rehabilitation Hospital and a frequent visitor to nursing homes.

Scooter has been a therapy cat and has brought so much more than just cuteness to patients, many in wheelchairs. He brings happiness and hope. After meeting Scooter, one man said to himself: “I’m an idiot for ever feeling sorry for myself,” according to Triblive. Scooter is now giving others a second chance at life just like how he got his. They think: “If he can do it, so can I.”


Scooter the Cat

Scooter and his custom-made wheelcart

Scooter touches lives with his perseverance to live and brings new hope to others

Scooter the therapy cat snuggles up to Ernie Stock, 87

An Amazing Sentence in English

Forwarded by Harinder Singh
Saturday, 23 June 2012 6:27 PM


AN AMAZING SENTENCE IN ENGLISH

Remarkable indeed! The person who made this sentence must be a vocabulary GENIUS.

"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness."

This is a sentence where the first word is one letter long, the second is a word of two letters; the third word is three letters long . . . the 8th word is 8 letters long and so on . . . with the 20th word being 20 letters long!

Taxi driver and his squirrel

Forwarded by *debra williams*
Friday, 2 November 2012 11:30 PM


Soldiers in Belarus found a little squirrel and brought it to the warrant officer. The squirrel was very weak and about to die, so the officer took care of it, fed it like a baby every four hours. Three months ago, the warrant officer left the army and now works as a taxi driver, and the squirrel is always with him wherever he goes.

 

"Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal, his world is changed forever!" - Unknown

Coffins in Ghana

Forwarded by Raj
Saturday, 12 November 2011 3:24 AM


Ga-Adangbe is an ethnic group in the West African nation of Ghana. The Ga people are renowned worldwide for their funeral celebrations and processions. They believe that when someone dies, they move to another life. Therefore, special coffins are often crafted by highly skilled carpenters. The coffins can be anything wanted by relatives of the deceased from a pencil to any animal such as an elephant. Coffins are usually crafted to reflect an essence of the deceased, in forms such as a character trait, an occupation, or a symbol of one's standing in the community. For example, a taxicab driver is most likely to be buried in a coffin shaped as a car.