Gratuitous Kitty Shot of the Week

Regular visitors to Kiko’s House are accustomed to seeing domestic kitties in this space on Sundays, but we’re making a big exception for a lion named Jupiter, who is seen giving Ana Julia Torres a hug and a kiss.

Jupiter was rescued six years ago from a life of abuse and malnutrition in a traveling circus, and Torres has nursed him back to health at her Villa Lorena shelter for injured and mistreated animals in the southern Colombian city of Cali.

Says Torres:

"Here we have animals that are lame, missing limbs, blind, cross-eyed, disabled. They come to us malnourished, wounded, burned, stabbed, with gunshots."

AN UPDATE

We recently featured blogger Kevin Drum’s new kitty. Kevin solicited names from his readers and has finally chosen one.

Click here for more.

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