Sticky The Kitty Was Found Glued To The Road And Now She Has A Forever Home

We all have that little soft spot for animals and when it comes to kittens, they just seem to be at the top of the list. They have the ability to wrap themselves around our heart and make us love them from the first time we see them. That is sure to be the case when you see this kitten. Her name is Sticky and she is only about 8 weeks old. Her story is one that didn’t start out well but in the end, things went perfectly.

Sticky was found by an alert driver who happened to see her in the middle of the road. Hawley was driving down Silverton Road NE on his way from Silverton to Salem when he saw something in the road. It was 7 am and he saw cars swerving to avoid something in the road. When he got closer, he saw a kitten and his heart stopped.

His description of what he saw in the road that morning was a silhouette that he described as a ‘kitten emoji’. He slammed on his brakes, put on his warning lights and sprung into action.

People driving by where honking because he was in the road but he didn’t care. All Hawley could see was the little kitten that was shaking and frightened.

“She was meowing and not very happy,” said Hawley, who went to work carefully peeling her paws off the pavement.

“Her front feet came off easy, but her back feet were still stuck, so I peeled the glue off the road and took it with us. That was easier.”

He took her to the Kroc Center where he worked. At first, he tried to clean her with Goo Gone but then he thought it might not be the best choice. He decided to use Dawn dish soap, since it is often used after oil spills to clean wild animals.

Eventually, Sticky was taken to the Silver Creek Animal Clinic. Dr. Jenny Bate soaked her paws in mineral oil.

“She was still pretty sticky,” Dr. Bate said. “She still had quite a bit on her paw pads and stuck between her toes, and her belly and tail were really sticky.

“Mineral oil is really good at getting glue or anything sticky out of fur.”

Dr. Bate also found some small puncture wounds under her neck but they couldn’t determine where they came from. The vet also said that she had never seen anything like this when she heard that the kitten was glued to the road.

“It’s the worst thing I can imagine,” Dr. Bate said. “It makes you wonder what would make a person do that. It’s just awful.”

Sticky was cleaned, dried and given some flea medicine. She then went home with Hawley and was prepped for her vaccines that would start the following week.

Although Sticky was named because of being glued to the road, she could just as easily been named Lucky.

“She was really lucky,” Dr. Bate said. “I’m just so glad for people in the world that will stop and take kittens off the road.”

Many people are responding to what Hawley did that day. He has received emails from around the world, including England, Australia, Spain, Scotland and Portugal. He even got one from an Iraqi news outlet and they asked to translate Sticky’s story in Arabic.

Interestingly, he had just discussed the possibility of getting another dog with his wife because their Chihuahua (Jojo) has cancer. They said that a cat would probably find them, and it looks like she did.

Facebook video may take a moment to load:

Sticky now is living life in her new forever home with a dog, cat and 11 year old twin brothers, Christan and Kai.

“Everything I keep telling my kids is we just really needed some good news for this to be such an incredible story for everybody,” Hawley said. “The whole world needed a good story.

“And for every jerk who would glue a cat to the road, 400,000 in the world would not.”

When Hawley posted the picture and story on Facebook, it went viral. His wife started the Sticky the Kitty Facebook page and within a few days, she has thousands of fans.

“I’m glad people have found hope in this little kitten,” Hawley said.