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Kittens accidentally packed in box, shipped from Los Angeles to San Diego [w/video]
ABC News 10 ^ | Apr 16, 2014 | Itica Milanes

Posted on 04/18/2014 9:49:02 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

SAN DIEGO - A Cox Communications employee was shocked after he opened a box at work and found two newborn kittens clinging to life inside.

Two kittens are recovering after they were found inside a box that was shipped from the Los Angeles area to a Cox Communications office in Chula Vista.

The two kittens were somehow packed with fiberglass equipment, loaded into a Cox Communications semi-truck and shipped from the Hollywood to San Diego County.

Cox employee JC Collins said, "They were very, very lucky that they didn't fall out of it in transport or when we were unloading the truck."

Collins has been working at the Cox warehouse for 34 years and thought he had seen it all. He couldn't believe it when a co-worker opened a box and found the two little furballs staring right up at him.

(Excerpt) Read more at 10news.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping
So cute! [Thanks to Gefn for the link.]
1 posted on 04/18/2014 9:49:02 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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2 posted on 04/18/2014 9:50:02 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Baby basement kitties no bigger than my finger.

Watched over by Ceiling Cat

Gotta love a story with a happy ending, and kittens.


3 posted on 04/18/2014 10:01:25 PM PDT by Gefn (All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
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To: Gefn

Agreed on all counts.


4 posted on 04/18/2014 10:02:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Gefn; Tax-chick

Wow

Mommy cat must have been frantic


5 posted on 04/18/2014 10:04:24 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Slings and Arrows
"What we think happened was the mom had the babies and she put them in a safe spot … and she left. Then they got boxed up and they got shipped."

Oh my. Reminds me of when I was little, the "joke" about being packaged up and dropped off at the Post Office.

6 posted on 04/18/2014 10:13:34 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Ezekiel

Like Garfield sending Nermal to Abu Dhabi.


7 posted on 04/18/2014 10:17:09 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: Ezekiel
Oh my. Reminds me of when I was little, the "joke" about being packaged up and dropped off at the Post Office.

They inspect packages that scream. Freakin' busybodies.

8 posted on 04/18/2014 10:33:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

How does something like this make the news? Do people just call up the station and say “guess what just happened!” Seems just a bit frivolous. Just saying...


9 posted on 04/18/2014 10:47:47 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ceiling Cat moves in mysterious ways.


10 posted on 04/18/2014 11:12:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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Do people just call up the station and say “guess what just happened!”

maybe they follow what's trending on social media...

11 posted on 04/18/2014 11:15:30 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Cowboy Bob

They almost covered the Bundy Ranch, so they had to find some cute kitten news to broadcast instead.


12 posted on 04/18/2014 11:37:40 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: Ezekiel

“What we think happened was the mom had the babies and she put them in a safe spot … and she left. Then they got boxed up and they got shipped.”
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I have a rear entry garage and a metal driveway gate. I used to leave the door open in the Summer when I went to work, so the heat wouldn’t build up in the garage and transfer to the house.

Came home one day and when I got out of the car I heard a strange noise. Thought it was just the car cooling down. After changing clothes, I went back to the garage and still heard the strange sound.

Tracked the sound down and found 3 tiny kitties behind a box. I have been owned by cats since I was of single digit age, so I figured the mama had stashed them there. Sure enough, there was a strange cat lying out on my cement pad behind my garage later that day.

I put the recently born kitties in a box layered with paper towels and a bowl of water on my patio where I could watch them through a French door. .....Wasn’t long before mama was there and picking one up. She went across my backyard, down the side and under a decorative fence on a courtyard.

In short order, she transported all the kittens the same way; taking them to whatever her intended destination was.

Gave me a good feeling.


13 posted on 04/19/2014 1:03:27 AM PDT by octex
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14 posted on 04/19/2014 2:35:44 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: GeronL

You are right about mommy cat. I hope she knows somewhere that her babies will have very good homes and very good long lives.

Cats are very smart critters, the ones I’ve known anyway,


15 posted on 04/19/2014 7:42:43 AM PDT by Gefn (All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
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To: octex; Uncle Sham; Slings and Arrows

Awww, sweet.

Maybe your story (and the one with the article) will encourage a long time FReeper to retell the story of Wallter (it was a live freep thread many years ago!).


16 posted on 04/19/2014 8:52:30 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

People love stories about animals.

You will never go wrong if you write a tale about a cat, a squirrel or a parrot. I speak as a British journalist, by the way. It may be different in America!


17 posted on 04/19/2014 12:11:12 PM PDT by Larry Milk
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LOL Thanks for the laugh. :D


18 posted on 04/19/2014 5:04:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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