Remembering Pfc Hammer, a tabby cat who improved the lives of soldiers in the Iraq war

Staff Sgt Bousfield and Pfc Hammer

Pfc (Private first class) Hammer was a tabby kitten born at the US military’s base for the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He had two siblings but they ran away never to be seen again while Hammer stayed and became a working cat by keeping the mice population down in the …

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Sadie a Turkish Van cat loses leg in Syrian war and gets a prosthetic one in Turkey

Sadie lost her leg in Syria

The video says it all really but I’ll add some words. First up; Sadie looks like a Turkish Van, she really does. She was injured like so many humans in the ghastly Syrian conflict. Her left hind leg was hit by shrapnel. It withered and had to be amputated. How did a cat get …

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