9-Year-Old Boy Trades His Favorite Thing to Save

If anybody deserves to be denied the gates of heaven and despatched straight down to the fiery depths below, it’s people who abuse helpless animals. It takes a deeply psychotic thoughts to get your kicks out of watching a creature needlessly undergo.

In December of 2024, nine-year-old Zayin Berry was at his local skate park in Yuma, California, when he noticed a group of older youngsters tossing a little kitty around “like he was a football” and even throwing it to the ground, severely injuring it. It was fairly clear that if the abuse went on for much longer, the kitten wasn’t going to make it.

Zayin thought fast and supplied up one of his most treasured possessions—his board—and said the miscreants might have it if they’d just go away the poor cat alone. Amazingly, they took him up on his offer and went off to journey their new skateboard while Zayin snatched the cat and ran home to get help from his mom.

“He was so small and little when I picked him up, he was meowing, and I ran over to my mom and told her I found this kitty, and he needs our help.”

His mom, Rhiannon Berry, said her son got here operating toward her moments later, holding the small orange kitten in his arms. “You could hear its breathing was all congested and his paws were all caked with gunk on it,” she said.

They took the poor, injured critter to the local Humane Society, and although he was badly harm, they had been ready to save him. He lives on, and is now Zayin’s “best friend.”

For his heroic efforts, the teenager was named in September as the ASPCA’s “Kid of the Year” for 2025, and the ceremony was held earlier this October. 

Congratulations, younger man, you definitely deserve it:

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The cat, now named Peaches, has a new lease on life thanks to the actions of a quick-thinking—and very courageous—younger boy.

Peaches finally did have one of his eyes eliminated due to the severity of his infection. After his eye surgical procedure and treatment for a respiratory infection, Peaches turned a glad, healthy cat and now lives with Zayin’s household, which incorporates six other cats and three canines. Peaches is now the 9-year-old boy’s full-time best good friend.

“He loves me and sleeps right next to my face and gives me kisses in the morning. We are meant to be together, and I saved him. He’s mine. He is my best friend,” Zayin says of life with Peaches today.

9-Year-Old Hero Boy Sacrifices Skateboard to Save Kitten, Wins Animal Welfare Award for Helping Pet (Exclusive) https://t.co/8eQfB4uKH1

— People Pets (@PEOPLEPets) October 12, 2025

Although the story has a hero and a glad ending (and many in the neighborhood pitched in to get him a new skateboard), there’s one factor I’m not seeing that I’d like to: the group of abusers being recognized and arrested. Maybe any individual might see if they want being tossed around like a soccer.

This is one in an occasional collection about on a regular basis heroes that don’t essentially make the entrance pages. It’s a probability to discuss about one thing other than the political scandals of the day.

I’m inviting readers to ship me tales of people they know or who they’ve read about who have completed heroic acts—large or small, bodily or in any other case—that have made somebody’s life better or saved them from hazard. Please electronic mail me with any suggestions at [email protected] or DM me on Twitter. Thanks!

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