If you ever meet Katherine Ferullo, a 10 year old Pelham Junior Girl Scout in Pelham Troop #10886, you will discover a young lady who embodies the Girl Scout Bronze Award she recently received. This is the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can achieve; awards for older Girl Scout age groups are the Silver Award and Gold Award, which parallel the Eagle Scout Award for Boy Scouts. The Bronze Award requires the scout to take on a community project, an adventure, which will change or enhance her community. The project requires a great deal of planning, approval by an adult advisor, attention to all of the project details from start to finish and a great deal of independent execution.
Katherine chose Wignall Animal Hospital patients as her target community group. What inspired the 10 year old to plan and create blankets for our hospital patients? She and her family have adopted several pets from local shelters and rescues. Katherine noted that the rescued pets did not have the luxury of 
nice bedding and she decided that she wanted to make life a little better for pets staying in the hospital. Perhaps it was the hope that, should her pets need hospitalization at Wignall someday, they might be afforded some extra special hospital bedding to comfort them and lift their spirits. With donated fabric, she planned out her blankets to be different sizes, colors and textures. Some have bright stripes; some are cozy soft. She cut and machine sewed them all-20 total-and presented them to Wignall Animal Hospital today.
We are thrilled to accept such a kind, thoughtful and wonderful gift to our patients. Katherine will have a special place in our hearts for her kindness. She is pictured to the right with some of the Wignall Medical Staff: Veterinary Technicians Bonnie, Anne-Marie, Holly, Sarah; Veterinary Technician Supervisor, Bonnie and veterinarian, Dr. Tamara Pikulik.
