Stuck on you: kitten rescued from bucket of glue bonds with foster parent

A two-month-old kitten whose life was saved when he was rescued from a bucket of glue has bonded with the foster parent who helped him to recover – and is sticking with her permanently. Staff at the Humane Society of North Texas say they were swamped with applications to adopt tiny Elmer after the non-profit shared on social media in mid-April the story of how the cat was found dehydrated and close to death in a pot of glue – before being painstakingly nursed back to health with canola oil baths and hours of massages. Now the kitten, named by his rescuers for the popular glue brand, has become attached to Leah Owens, a volunteer with the Humane Society who has become Elmer’s permanent new caregiver. Owens looked after Elmer through weeks of intensive treatment to remove the last traces of the hardened adhesive from his fur – and says his company also comforts her after she lost her husband, Roger, in October to the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. “He filled that void and just gave me a lot of joy, a lot of happiness,” Owens, 72, told the Washington Post . Elmer’s story began on 31 March when a Good Samaritan brought him to the Humane Society’s headquarters in Fort Worth caked in white glue. It is not known if the kitten fell into the bucket or was placed there deliberately. Rescuers immediately set to work trying to remove the glue before it became hard and further restricted Elmer’s breathing and movement. …