[Leica] using your powers for good instead of evil

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

I must admit -- I've used my photography to promote some pretty questionable 
and frivolous things in the past. But last night I was able to asuage some 
of that political karma by photographing a six week old kitten who needs 
surgery.
 
The kind folks at city kitties (www.citykitties.org 
<http://www.citykitties.org> ) are trying to raise $2,000 so that this 
little charmer
 
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/kabuki.jpg 
<http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/kabuki.jpg> 
 
can have her right front leg amputated. She was most likely hit by a car and 
her leg is severely damaged, to the point of being irreperabe. A good soul 
found her outside of a restaurant in the trendy neighborhood of Mannyunk, a 
Philadelphia sububrb, yowling for attention and couldn't walk on past. Her 
front leg doesn't work and has gotten an infection from her dragging it as 
she walks in the spot where her skin has rubbed off. She's super friendly 
and the whole time I was photographing her she kept running up to me as fast 
as three legs could carry her so that I could pet her and make a fuss.
 
After her photo shoot, she just wanted to be carried around by everybody, 
purring like a little engine. here she is with the boyfriend of the vet 
who's going to do the surgery:
 
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/kabuki2.jpg 
<http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/kabuki2.jpg> 
 
if any of you find yourselves powerfully moved by my photography or suddenly 
regretting that you'd done promotional work for some major corporation that 
bulldozed an orphanage to make way for a country club for executives, city 
kitties is accepting paypal donations to info@citykitties.org 
<mailto:info@citykitties.org> 
 
they also have two kittens who are each going to need surgery to have an eye 
removed -- they were found in a bag in a dumpster just a few blocks from my 
house and are, according to city kitties, at the moment too gruesome to be 
photographed.
 
keep pushing that shutter button, it'll come unstuck,
 
kyle