While Morgan McKenzie was walking around her house in Delaware, she heard little screams coming from a hollow forest. Then, she figured out that the voice came out from a gray and white kitten who was all alone there. McKenzie chose to leave the kitten where she is her just in case the mother came back.
At night, McKenzie checked the place she discovered the kitten and she noticed that she is in a need for help.
“When it started to get dark, we went back to make sure she was gone, but we could still hear her little cries,” McKenzie said. “I was so glad we picked her up because I don’t think she would have made it. She was only a day or two old. She couldn’t see, her ears were still folded and she was starving.”
After she took bath and then, 12-year-old Lab, Paxton saw the kitten.
“Paxton got to meet Polly right after her bath,” McKenzie said. “He fell in love with her at first because he got to clean her after every bottle feed and she loved it because she didn’t know any different.”
The big dog was licking Polly to clean her. And that was the first parental act he did for her. She is an orphan and never experienced such an act. However, her eyes were still closed. So, she didn’t realize how big he is, all she knew that he took care of her.
“She used to stand as still as possible until she could hear his footsteps,” McKenzie said. “She would go bolting over to where she thought she heard him.”
It took five weeks for Polly’s vision to become clear, and by then the two animals were completely in love. “I don’t think she ever knew any better so Polly thinks this is all just normal,” McKenzie said. “She grooms him, he grooms her. I don’t think she knows she is a cat.”
Whether snuggling on the sofa, playing and eating together — the couple couldn’t be happier together.
Polly is now 6 months old while Paxton is nearly 13 years old, but their friendship is still as strong as ever. And as Polly has grown and become more energetic, her friend somehow manages to have great patience for her — even when she takes his favorite toys.
“The two of them still adore each other,” McKenzie said. “She’s becoming more of the pesky little sister who loves to follow him around and attack the toys he is playing with.”
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