Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Soldiers raise £6,000 to save kitten used as a football in Afghanistan

British soldiers have raised £6,000 to rescue a kitten that Afghan ­children used as a football. Patrolling paratroopers found Sticky barely alive in Helmand Province.

Within two weeks, soldiers from 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment raised enough to pay for the ginger tom’s ­quarantine and travel to the UK.



Private Liam ­Greenhalgh, 21, of Blackburn, asked friends and family to send cat food and donate cash.

His girlfriend Tania Chapman, 24, said: “They have had a difficult tour but none of them wanted to leave Sticky there.” The cat, whose brother Relentless died of his injuries, will hopefully live at the Colchester garrison in Essex, or with a soldier.

7 comments:

Ratz said...

They should have left the cat and used the children as footballs.

kolymatram said...

though the EDL will protest : "another illegal immigrant"

Unknown said...

Nah...he's not brown.

Froguette said...

Weird they didn't use some of the money to educate those children, don't you think? Even "only" $1000 could pay for a lot of school time in Afghanistan.

Anonymous said...

That is sickening and should be unacceptable in the day and age!

Vanessa d' Azevedo said...

We can see how people are educated on the way they treat their animals, what can we expect from Afegans by the way they treat the women.

Anonymous said...

Excuses & opinions, they're just like @$$holes, everybody's got 1. I dont feel bad for the kids, your complaint about "environment" can only reach just so far, after all, sometimes kids who live around awful things USE that to make themselves better people, the rest are weak & stupid. Little Ted Bundy's running around-& should be dealt w/as such.