The holidays are happy times, unless you spend them alone, in a shelter. It’s especially sad because this is 11-month-old Holly’s first Christmas. It’s sad, too, because Holly remembers being adored as a kitten. The pretty little white girl, with gold decorations, can’t talk about that, but Holly’s trust in and love of people shows it.

Yet, Holly has known worse times than being alone in the shelter for a day. She was abandoned. She was starving. Then Holly was in the rain; then the wind; then the cold. Then she was desperately sick.

She’s been to the vet and been tested for the scary diseases, FIV and feline leukemia. She doesn’t have them. Holly almost died simply from not being loved and cared for.