{"id":6343,"date":"2016-11-24T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2023-12-28T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T02:46:46","slug":"lahna-fury-sheron-ls-cat-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/lahna-fury-sheron-ls-cat-rescue","title":{"rendered":"Lahna "Fury" Sheron: L’s Cat Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a few attempts to join more KCJS-typical CIPs, like an aikido circle and a choir, I sat down and considered how I actually wanted to participate in Kyoto\u2019s community. The answer to this question, like many others in my life, was cats. I had volunteered for a few years with cats back in America, so I knew the gist of what I was signing up for. My language class sensei located a shelter about a minute\u2019s walk from the Kamikatsura train station. \uff08\u300c\uff1dL’s=\u732b\u306e\u5bb6\u65cf\u63a2\u3057\u300d\u3002\uff09<\/strong>
\nIt clicked early on to me that the patient people who worked at L\u2019s were willing to guess at my dubious vocabulary until they understood what I was saying, to my relief.
\nThe first day I got there, there were three kittens who had been born only the previous week and abandoned in the street by their mother, pictured here: http:\/\/catls.blog5.fc2.com\/blog-entry-477.html
\n<\/a>I got to see them saved by the people working there, and sometimes even care for them myself, which was tremendously satisfying since I\u2019d only ever volunteered with cats over the age of 15 back in the states. I remember one week I became very startled to see a very large bump on one of their bellies. I was extremely worried because I\u2019d only ever seen that size of bump on cats who had cancer. I quickly looked up the word for tumor and told the owner of the shelter. She kind of laughed and told me to my relief that it was just a hernia. I don\u2019t know how that little guy got a hernia at three weeks old, but he’s still fine scampering around and I know the word for tumor now.
\nThis is just one of the many stories I have of the good people at L’s saving lives and legitimately caring about their animals. The interesting thing people don\u2019t tell you about many shelters in Japan is that they, like L’s, take place in private homes and living spaces, and are filled with animals to which volunteers donate their time, money, and love. I was shocked to learn this, and am elated there are such good people in Japan fighting under the radar to save animals\u2019 lives, both inside and outside NPO’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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