When Timmy DeJordy of Edmonton bought a new mattress, she gave her old set to Sleep Country Canada, a major mattress retailer whose donation program provides beds to charitable organizations throughout the country. The delivery guys wrapped up DeJordy’s old, double-sized mattress and took it away. The next morning, DeJordy’s 17-year-old cat, Precious, was gone.
Her sister reminded her that Precious had a habit of hiding in the old bed, so DeJordy called Sleep Country. Several employees searched through dozens of donated mattresses before finding the frightened feline hiding in a box spring. A Sleep Country manager delivered the slightly stressed, but otherwise okay, Precious back home to DeJordy.
This isn’t the first time a cat has made the news for being accidentally donated along with furniture.
The global warming movement is in mourning this week.
When I talk to people about poverty in the America, they often forget that immigrants are part of the equation. Why? Well, built-in bias from the media about undocumented workers deserving their fate of toiling in endless job cycles of dish washing, farm work and domestic labor is certainly part of it. But people also assume that if you have enough money to file the paperwork and move to the states, you have enough to stay afloat.