As states review their safe haven laws, a doctor ponders the child he has just received.

The box was the size of a footlocker, indeed it was a foot locker,
the name on the side said Tech Sergeant Emanuel Perez.
An envelope was caught in the seam, I pulled it out and read.

I'm sorry, I did not know where to go, but the safe haven law said that I
could drop her off at a hospital, police station or fire house. Nothing
was said about animal shelters.

I thought to my self, animal shelter? We’re a children's hospital for gods sake, did this women think the kids need pets to play with? I read on...

She can’t live with me now, I can’t talk to her, I can’t stand to look at
her, it was all my mistake, I meant for him to be a five year old for
Halloween only, the potion should have not done this ... Please take
care of my husband...if only our cat, Tesha, had not jumped into his
arms.

As I opened the trunk a child, no a "neko - girl" peered out at me, and hissed...