CANNONSBURG, Ky. — The elegant black cat glided across the carpeted living room floor of her new home in northeastern Kentucky, thousands of miles and a far cry from her previous home in war-torn Afghanistan.

She seems happy and well-adjusted living with Barbara Padgett, despite the horrors she must have experienced in her short life.

Padgett’s grandson, Tyler Daniels, is a contract worker in Afghanistan. The 32-year-old is a dog lover, but when Bewler — named after a tool to provide security to American military bases — started hanging around the office he shares with five others, he and his office mates took right to her.

“She was one of many stray cats we feed,” he said, noting that he and others quickly realized she had an injury.

“Three or 4 inches of her tail had been burned off,” Daniels said. “There was just bone hanging there at a 90-degree angle.” He said her skin and fur around her tail were charred. “People are pretty cruel to animals there.”

Ravaged by war for more than a decade, Afghanistan last week garnered national media attention after the United States military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the eastern part of the country targeting the Islamic State.

Still, the cat seemed mostly unaffected, until infection set in and the men knew they needed to get her to a veterinarian.

She got her shots and part of her tail was amputated, after which time she spent 45 days recuperating.

Meanwhile, her new American friends wanted to bring her to the United States.

“My team leader and his girlfriend are into animal rescue,” Daniels said. “She started a GoFundMe account to recoup some of the expenses that he had paid up front. Plus, sending her back to the States cost a lot.”

The fundraiser brought in $1,400. However, the shipping cost, which included the paperwork involved in sending an animal on a three-day trip from Kabul City to Dubai to Amsterdam to Washington, D.C., was $2,500. That’s not counting her medical expenses. But Daniels and his coworkers made it happen: She arrived in her new nation’s capital on April 3.

Meanwhile, Daniels, who had decided to keep her, was on leave.

“I had already planned a sightseeing trip to D.C., so I got her while I was there,” he said. An organization called Puppy Rescue Mission agreed to keep her until he could pick her up.

Daniels will return to work soon, leaving Bewler with Padgett, who is already keeping Daniels’ other cat and Daniels’ sister’s dog.

Padgett said she was glad to do it.

“What’s another cat?” she asked.

Ward writes for Ashland, Kentucky Daily Independent.