Posted on 09/02/2018 3:59:12 AM PDT by vannrox
A kind-hearted man spent seven hours digging through piles of wood to save a litter of tiny kittens in the dumpster.
Courtesy: Cliff
A month ago, Cliff heard meowing coming from a pile of wood in the dumpster. He spotted a little helpless kitten hanging onto scraps of wood, letting out a few faint cries. Soon he discovered that there were more than one kitten.
"They got dumped in the dumpster, then there was wood dumped on top," Cliff told Love Meow.
He spent hours digging through piles of wood and steels to save the abandoned kittens. They were so young that their eyes just opened.
Courtesy: Cliff
He first located the whereabouts of the kittens and then carefully dug through the piles to retrieve them. After hours upon hours of digging, he got all the kittens, but one didn't survive.
"Mom chose a huge box to give birth in and kittens got thrown in dumpster," Watching Over Whiskers said.
Courtesy: Cliff
This is where Cliff found the kittens.
Courtesy: Cliff
Cliff got a tiny gray kitten out from under a pile of wood scraps. He put the fur baby on his lap and gave the little one some much needed TLC.
He placed a tiny kitten in his pocket to keep warm and continued to look for others.
Courtesy: Cliff
After hours of rummaging, he got all the kittens out of the dumpster.
Courtesy: Cliff
The kittens were so young that they would need around-the-clock care.
Courtesy: Cliff
Cliff and his family began to look for help, and after a lot of searching, one rescue group responded and offered to help with open arms.
Courtesy: Cliff
The good folks from Watching Over Whiskers (Springfield, Missouri) took the kittens into their care. The babies got baths, full bellies and a warm bed to sleep in.
Courtesy: Watching Over Whiskers
"They got milk all over each other they were so hungry," the rescue group said.
One of the gray babies crossed the rainbow bridge. The little buddy fought hard.
Courtesy: Watching Over Whiskers
Two of the kittens are smaller, so Roxy, a beautiful rescue mama, is giving them milk and lots of TLC.
Courtesy: Watching Over Whiskers
Despite a hard beginning, these kittens are now thriving at their foster home. The kindness from their rescuer and the unconditional love from their caregivers and surrogate mom have turned their lives around.
Now they are learning to explore and are excited about their new adventures in life.
Courtesy: Watching Over Whiskers
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Nasty thing to say but that’s FR for you.
Do you know anything about feral cats?
I’ll bet that Mama Cat had them in the dumpster and something happened to Her.
Im not a big fan of cats, however you cant not respect somebody who respects lives
PING this one over to Slings and Arrows.
As a kid growing up in rural Georgia, we had a county dumpster at the end of the road from our house. We pulled out dozens of kittens and puppies that had been thrown in it and cared for them until we could find them new homes. Almost 50 years later, I am at the other end of the county and about a month ago somebody dumped a box of puppies at the end of the road. No shortage of douchebags.
Beautiful analogy.
We must protect the puppies and the kittens. It is one of the roles that we have on this planet of ours.
Yes but dumping them in the trash or drowning them is not the answer. Spay and neuter needs encouragement...
Having read the article, it sounds like that’s exactly what happened. No one put them in there, they were born in there.
I wish we could use people who do that for medical experiments and target practice, personally.
From another perspective, there goes the environment due to the impact feral cats have on birds, for example, that eat the mosquitos that drive West Nile Virus across the states. see
http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
I would have been more impressed if there was mention of spaying the kittens before releasing them.
And I would be even more grateful if the author had compressed the pix before killing the tablet I use to read FR.
A pox on whoever threw those little babies into a dumpster!
Puppy mills are a far worse problem.
Thanks for that. What you said was so beautiful.
I do not know that, It may or may not be true.
I know that those who do the most damage claim to be doing it for the most good.
Adolf Hitler was a big animal rights guy.
The way to He!! is paved with good intentions.
On this Earth, hard choices need to be made. Those who are unwilling to do what is necessary, suffer.
It is a self correcting problem, usually.
I don't think so. He kills and eats them, doesn't he?
Fixing your assertion:
The core of any human is shown by how he treats animals fellow humans.
(at least doesn't usually literally eat them, as a carnivore would)
Remember the Golden Rule?
I grew up on a farm where we always had a lot of cats.
They thin themselves out, in time. Sadly, sicknesses like distemper, help.
I know there are probably too many stray cats, but some communities have done a good thing; rounded up the strays, had them neutered or spayed and let them go.
They never asked to be born and don't deserve to suffer. We can and should help them.
If you don't believe most murderers have a history of animal cruelty, look it up. Anyone who would delibertly hurt an innocent, defenseless animal would probably be capable of anything.
Just my humble opinion because I love all animals and birds. they are God's innocent little creatures.
to quote Temple Grandin, I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. Animals are basically defenseless and a hateful person will take advantage of that and torture animals - IMO rotten core!
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