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Kind-hearted man saves kitten on road — then gets ambushed by rest of the litter
New York Post ^ | June 9, 2022 | Brooke Kato

Posted on 06/09/2022 6:52:46 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

This gives Pussy Riot new meaning.

A man discovered a lonely kitten on the side of the road — only to have a pack of tiny cats emerge from the brush.

In a now-viral clip, the lone baby feline meows at the man where the grass meets gravel — but in the next minute, Louisiana’s Robert Brantley is ambushed by a stampede of meowing kittens.

“Oh, my gosh!” he exclaims in the video, which shows a seemingly never-ending kitten rampage. “I can’t take ya’ll. Oh, my gosh.”

One by one, the little kitties sprang from the tall grass that towered over their small bodies, running in circles around his feet.

“There’s more — we got a kitten problem,” Brantley says in the video, clearly shocked. “I thought I was saving one. Hot diggity dog.”

The 37-year-old Brantley was driving along and just happened to see what he thought was a kitten on the side of the road. After he continued on, he let the thought of the cat “marinate,” eventually deciding to turn around and rescue it before the rest of the pack suddenly surprised him.

“They’re all here at the house; they’re all doing good,” he told The Post of all 13 kittens he discovered. “The first time I fed them, they fought like they had never eaten a bite of food before.”

He speculated that someone probably had these kittens in their house and threw them out since he couldn’t find their mama.

While he can’t keep the entire baker’s dozen, he plans to keep at least two or three for his family, including one kitten on which his 1-year-old son fixated.

“They’re obsessed with each other,” he said. As far as the rest, gracious neighbors have offered to adopt them.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittehs; kittens; kittyping
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To: married21

LOL! I think the poem is actually saying that Susan DOESN’T love him :-)


41 posted on 06/10/2022 8:57:36 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: an amused spectator; AFB-XYZ; al baby; AnotherUnixGeek; AuH2ORepublican; barker; Biggirl; Bodega; ..

*animal video/article ping*

If you want on or off this list, please let me know.

(note this is now simply “animal video” ping, since I feature more than just kittens)


42 posted on 06/10/2022 9:36:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: American Number 181269513

Awww what a sweet story!!


43 posted on 06/10/2022 10:54:14 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert ( )
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To: NetAddicted
Kitties in water?

There's a family with a Youtube channel that features their cat that loves the beach and swimming in the ocean with their two dogs and riding on a surfboard and in their boat.

44 posted on 06/10/2022 10:59:22 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care)
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To: American Number 181269513

Thank goodness I was only ambushed by 2 kittens this past December at 4:30 in the morning at my barn.

Now their grown and living the dream in my house.


45 posted on 06/10/2022 11:08:04 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: RedMonqey

That is a collective term for three or more cats in general, while kindle is kitten-specific. For a behavior-based collective, a glaring is a clowder uneasy with each other. Sadly, I could not find the origin for a pounce of cats, but it seems to be a good description for a group of playful felines.

If any of the previous groups are feral, they qualify as a destruction, but would that not be a great term for the current majority in Congress?


46 posted on 06/10/2022 11:37:02 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: American Number 181269513; Slings and Arrows

47 posted on 06/10/2022 4:45:18 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: skr

Our clowder frequently becomes a glaring.

(I need more squirt-bottles, so I don’t have to keep carrying the one from room to room.)


48 posted on 06/10/2022 9:04:40 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: American Number 181269513

Awww.... thanks for posting. :-)


49 posted on 06/10/2022 9:08:11 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...

50 posted on 06/11/2022 2:57:11 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | http://mewe.com/i/hopalongginsberg)
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To: skr

“a glaring is a clowder uneasy with each other”

That describes out little colony of indoor cats. One of them has never been really accepted after we rescued her. Wish I knew cat psychology so as to smooth things out.


51 posted on 06/11/2022 5:11:23 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: American Number 181269513

We just adopted two kidgets.13 is a chunk


52 posted on 06/11/2022 9:02:22 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: American Number 181269513

I was talking to my sister yesterday evening, and remembered to tell her about the kitten stampede. She websearched it, found an article and started watching it. My cat lady sister loved it! She found the kitteh rescuer’s Instagram page, with lots of rescued kitteh videos: Robert Brantley_.


53 posted on 06/11/2022 9:41:57 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Rusty0604

The video went viral, so people everywhere were offering to adopt them.


54 posted on 06/11/2022 9:46:30 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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The kitten rescuer, Robert Brantley, has an Instagram page. My sister said he had lots of videos of the rescued kittens.


55 posted on 06/12/2022 2:32:19 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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Such a great video/story.....so nice to see kind hearted people for awhile.


56 posted on 06/16/2022 8:30:10 AM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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