This very touching story, from the Orlando Sentinel's Animal Crazy blog, definitely is worth sharing. What an amazing coincidence that these two lives intersected at exactly the right time.

ORLANDO COUPLE SAVE KITTEN

The already hectic household of Orlando artists Peter and Kathy Forster gotten even more hectic in April when they took in a kitten that would have surely perished without their intervention.

Peter Forster was visiting a paint-supply store when an employee pointed to "some type of wretched creature that looked as if it had just been run over" next to Forsters' car.

He described it as "no longer than my thumb, unidentifiable because of the black substance covering it. It lay sprawled out on the blacktop, bloody and not able to move .. .. . When I picked it up, I discovered it was a newborn kitten, just minutes old."

He rushed to an animal shelter, where he was told the kitten would have to be put down and would not even make it to his home. Undaunted, Forster got some Pedialyte and soy milk and built a homemade incubator. He and his wife began the grueling process of playing surrogate mama. They must get up several times a night to feed their baby. The other day brought a scare.

"I went to wake him for his 1 a.m. feeding and he wouldn't wake," Forster reports. "Then I rolled him over and he flopped as though he died. I picked him up and he was limp like a dead kitten would be. Kathy and I were both frantic. We massaged him and he came back to life."

Forster reports the kitten is now in good health and parasite-free. They named him Trishna, translated roughly to "clinging" as Buddha's second noble truth because "he clung onto our clothes and life." The Forsters have no regrets about the expense and lost sleep.

"There is a special communication you get with a little guy like this," Peter writes "The biggest reward is the way we look into each other's eyes."

Eyes that just opened recently for the first time.