While we often have watched in movies or stereotyped the fact that dogs and cats don’t get along and might seem uncomfortable in each other’s company, this story of a Yorkie rescuing a timid stray kitten on a rainy day in Abilene, Texas, might make you think differently.
One day in September 2019, Monica Burks’s 3-year-old dog, Hazel, went outside to take a restroom break.
Given that it was a wet day, Burks didn’t think that her dog would spend too long outside. But while Hazel was outside, she had picked up the sound of the kitten’s faint cry underneath a shed. While there was no sign of any other felines in the neighborhood, Hazel took it upon herself to help the lonely kitten.
Hazel tried to escort the kitten back to her house. Each time the nervous kitten stopped and hesitated to take a step, Hazel would turn around and make sure the kitten was following her.
With plenty of patience and coaxing from Hazel, the kitten was led down the driveway, past Burks’s car, and into their house. Now with Burks encouraging both of them, they made their way to the welcome mat and the front door.
While Hazel managed to hop up over the threshold without any problem, the kitten couldn’t. The kitten did try jumping, only to fall back.
That’s when Hazel picked the tyke up by the scruff of her neck and carried her in, just as her mother would have. Burks meanwhile made sure that Hazel didn’t bite down too hard, saying “be gentle, Hazel, be gentle.”
However, Hazel isn’t the first dog to take some kittens as her own. A flight instructor in Maryland named Victoria was heading to her job on a rainy day, taking her senior dog Turbo with her, when she came across a kitten. Her dog Turbo found two more little kittens in the bushes.
