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There are many problems that war veterans face when they return to their homes. The psychological bull they have is very big.
The same thing happened to Josh Marino when he came back from the war. He suffered a brain injury in Iraq and severe post-traumatic stress disorder; so much so that he felt he couldn’t go on.
“I didn’t want to deal with it anymore,” Josh said. “I took out one of my knives… I wrote a letter on my computer and went outside to smoke one last cigarette.”
But when he was outside Josh heard something that distracted him. It was the meow of a small black cat and a white cat that needed help.
“He just walked up and started rubbing up against my leg and let me pet him, I broke down crying, burst into tears,” he says in his short film Josh & Scout, a Mutual Rescue. “Maybe he knew there was something I couldn’t quite handle.”
“He just walked up and started rubbing up against my leg and let me pet him, I broke down crying, burst into tears,” he says in his short film Josh & Scout, a Mutual Rescue. “Maybe he knew there was something I couldn’t quite handle.”
He named the cat “Scout” and started feeding it every day. But suddenly one day Scout did not appear with Josh and their heart.
Josh started his daily chores and found a girlfriend. They also decided together with them to adopt a cat, since Scout had a very positive impact on his life.
Little did Josh know who he was going to find at the adoption event.
“All of a sudden a little black and white paw shoots out from a crate and starts smacking me in my left arm,” he says when he sees Scout at the shelter. “I opened up that cage, and I pulled him out, and I held him tight.”
Josh immediately signed the adoption papers. Finally, he could adopt the cat that saved his life. He started eating better and exercising and he even quit smoking.
He seemed to be calmer now because he married his girlfriend Becky and got a degree in clinical rehabilitation and mental health counseling.
Just from this chance encounter with a kitten Josh didn’t go through with ending his life and now helps other veterans going through the same problems he had. Who knows how many lives Josh has saved through his work?
This is the best example of what animals can do for people and how they can prevent tragedies!
