In Yuma, Arizona, a 9-year-old named Zayin Berry showed more heart than most adults when he stepped in to save a tiny kitten being messed with by a group of older kids.
They were tossing the poor thing around like it was nothing, laughing while it cried out.
Zayin, who had just been skating nearby, pulled up and told them to stop.
When they refused, Zayin stepped up and told them to take his board if that’s what it took to let the kitten go.
That board wasn’t just a toy to him.
It was his favorite one, scraped up from hours of for skating hard in the streets. Still, he handed it over without hesitation.
The kids took the deal and ran off laughing, but Zayin didn’t care. He scooped up the kitten, wrapped it in his shirt, and ran home.
His mom helped him rush the kitten to the Humane Society of Yuma.
The vets said it was in bad shape, with a serious eye injury and a respiratory infection. They had to remove one of its eyes to save its life. Zayin named the kitten Peaches, and after weeks of treatment, the little cat pulled through.
Now Peaches is healthy and lives with Zayin and his family.
The two are inseparable. Zayin says he doesn’t miss the skateboard much anymore because he got something better in return.
People around town have started calling Zayin the “skater with a heart,” and some local skaters even pitched in to get him a new board.
But what really stuck with everyone is how a little kid, with no fear and no hesitation, stepped up when nobody else did.