[Leica] using your powers for good instead of evil

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kyle
thanks for photographing kabuki.
count me in for a contribution to kabuki and to the kitties who were found 
in the dumpster.

my three kitties (all rescues) keep me sane.
maybe kabuki will get to stay with the vet's boyfriend even after her 
surgery.
hope so, but if not, here's to her finding a wonderful home.  ditto for the 
other two....

kim

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From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> 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
>  
> 
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