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  • Woman Welcomes New Kitten Into Her Life

    A lady named Lucy Schulz welcomed a new baby into her life, but it’s not your normal birth announcement.

    Schulz wrote: On 10/01/18 we welcomed our first baby kitten, a neutered male DLH.

    He is 22″ long and weighed 6 pounds 7 oz. He is already eating solid food. Name to be announced. We are so in love.

    Thank you Elizabeth Woods Darby for capturing these amazing first moments!!

    More than 80,000 people have shared the birth announcement since it was posted on the social media site Facebook and this is likely to rise.

    In the photos it appears as if Schultz is actually giving birth to a kitten which in case you aren’t aware isn’t currently possible.

    Schultz told 9news.com ” so I’ve been thinking of this idea for a while because i’m totally a crazy cat lady who didn’t have any cats, so I decided as soon as i got a cat its a big milestone for me and sort of the hallmark of me settling down and starting my menagerie of future cats and so the first one is pretty special”.

    So she and her husband decided to ask their good friend and photographer Elizabeth Woods-Darby to do a photo shoot of the new addition to their family.

    Schultz has received a lot of negative comments but says she’s just ignoring them and focusing on the positive and funny ones, she also hopes that he birth announcement will encourage others to go out and adopt a cat who needs a loving home.

    To see all the photos and follow the yet to be named kitten take a look at https://www.facebook.com/elizabth.woodsdarby/

     

  • Where Is Humanity?

    Photographer A.J. Laberinto took photos that will send shivers down your spine and make you be thankful for where you live.

    In May 2014, a photographer was strolling along the streets of Manila in the Philippines. Even though this moment was captured years ago — it’s still chilling to watch.


    The photos are difficult to look at, but they need to be seen and need to be shared; awareness of this cold and dark moment in humanity needs to be spread.


    A naked toddler was sleeping in the middle of a bustling public staircase not one person paying any attention, this child wasn’t anyone to them.



    Laberinto was completely stunned by the lack of humanity that he was witnessing. Not one single person walking by even gave the baby a second glance. They are so used to homeless and begging children, this was normal. It’s hard to think that this is happening during this day and age.

    The photographer said:

    “There I was, camera–celfone rather, in hand turning around the corner when I saw the child. You see, only recently I’ve been taking pictures of whatever sight was in front of me strolling around Manila though not that many. So there I was, and for several seconds the baby lay there on the floor not dying but rather sound asleep. The passers-by having seen too many too much of street children and beggars knew already how to react: they just walked away. After having finished taking the photos I then asked some familiar faces in the crowd, people who actually lived near those stairs, as to where the parent of that baby was. Lo and behold, a woman somewhat bedraggled with dirty clothes on showed up and immediately carried the baby away. All of this in a span of seconds. I bought the child food, by the way, four days ago and he’s still living in the streets the very bed to sleep in he ever knew.“


    Share these powerful images and be sure to spread some kindness today. Be the positivity we need in the world.


  • Man Ends Up In Court Over Viral Photo

    When Heather Whitten’s son Fox was sick, her husband Thomas brought his son into the shower to help give Fox some relief.  The photo was taken by Whitten, who is a professional photographer.

    “I snapped a couple of pictures,” she said. “It was just beautiful. It was not surprising or anything out of the ordinary; it’s how he has always been with the kids.”
    She likes the image because it shows that “it is okay to get naked with your son and nurture him … the important thing is really taking care of your kiddos.”

    While many loved the photograph of a loving moment with father and son and were upset when the photo was removed, not everyone agreed, and a single individual sent a letter of complaint to the local authorities.

    The Whittens, who have four children — Lillian 7, Leena 4, and   2-year-old twins Fox and Persephone — were then investigated by Arizona’s Department of Child Safety and the Sahuarita Police Department for a number of claims that the person made in their letter.

    While the police said they wouldn’t take action and the case would be closed, a DCS investigator spent the next few months working to portray Whitten as “an immodest, neglectful and abusive mother based on the single interview she had with me.”

    Whitten detailed the whole ordeal on the GoFundMe page she made to help raise funds for her civil case.



    She said the investigator’s negative opinion of her was largely based on the fact that she had chosen to openly breastfeed one of her twins during the interview.

    The claim against the Whittens could be substantiated against Heather in that she “neglected to supervise our children by allowing their images to be online and so put them at an unreasonable risk of harm.”


    If this claim turns out to hold weight in court, Whitten will be added to Arizona’s Central Registry for 25 years, and her right to foster or adopt children will be taken away.