Your Friday feel-good story.

From the Sacramento Bee:

UC Davis veterinarians treating dozens of pets badly burned in California wildfires

In a brightly lit makeshift burn unit inside the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, a feline wildfire victim, her face raw and her paw pads seared bright red, quivered in the arms of technician Robin Fisher.

Nearby, in the hospital’s emergency room, veterinarians Johanna Wolf and Susanna Solbak cleaned and wrapped the seared legs of a black cat as he howled in protest.

Around the corner, Dr. Steven Epstein checked on a mottled gray kitty that suffered heat and smoke injuries to her throat and esophagus, requiring vets to insert a feeding tube to nourish her.

These are some of the lesser-known victims of the wildfires that have consumed wide swaths of Northern California in recent weeks. Beyond the human toll and massive property losses, dozens of animals were left homeless and injured, wandering amid the soot and ash in Calaveras and Lake counties before being rescued. UC Davis has stepped in to treat some of the most critically injured.

As of Friday, the teaching hospital had received more than 40 cats, along with four horses, two pigs, two chickens, a dog and a goat. Nearly half of the animals have gone unclaimed, their families likely unaware whether they survived or where to look for them. Others have been identified through microchips under their skin, or after their owners spotted their photos on the UC Davis Facebook page.