Huggies Project Helps Shelter Animals Receive Creature Comforts
The fast-growing Huggies Project is collecting towels, newspapers and blankets to provide a little creature comfort for animals in local shelters.
Handsome Hector, an inquisitive-looking Tabby cat, was very much loved for 13 years. Lisa Kalisperis-Benjamin, who adopted the kitten Hector when she attended Cabrini College, recalled how the previous owners had locked him in a closet for long periods of time, because they could not successfully litter-train him. She said it was not a hard decision to give Handsome Hector a “forever home.” “I always wanted a cat,” she said. By August 2012, Kalisperis-Benjamin lived in Jeffersonville with her husband. Living with them were five rescued animals: two dogs and three cats, including Handsome Hector’s sister Wiggles. However, also by that time, Hector became gravely ill. “It was all kinds of awful things,” she said. “We took him to vet to vet …
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