‘Steel’ the cat flies more than 7,000 miles to receive care at Austin Pets Alive!
“Steel” the cat traveled from Kuwait to Washington D.C. to Central Texas after she was taken in after being hit by a car.
AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Pets Alive! welcomed a special client on Tuesday.
“Steel” the cat traveled from Kuwait to Washington D.C. to Central Texas after she was taken in after being hit by a car.
“We try to find them homes locally where we can, and then sometimes we also fly them out to the United States to find homes for them,” said Shannon Ross, who works as the political counsel for the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.
Unrelated to her day job, Ross has a passion for rescuing animals in need. She works closely with rescue organizations in Kuwait and the U.S. and said she has probably helped get 60 to 70 cats and dogs out of Kuwait and into U.S. shelters.
“There are a lot of places in the world and in much of the Middle East, unfortunately, where you don’t really have a well-developed system of government-sponsored shelters and so forth,” said Ross.
She also noted that since the pandemic, there’s been kind of a “worldwide crisis” in the animal rescue sector. And because of Steel’s medical issues, Ross faced an added challenge.
One of Steel’s legs had to be amputated after she was hit by the car. She also has a hernia that may need to be surgically removed, and she is urinary incontinent, which means she does not have complete control of her bladder.
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