Rescuers Wait For 8 Nights To Rescue Entire Kitten Family

[Little Tich]

Source: The Dodo

Four tiny kittens and their mother wandered into the garden of a family's home one night in London in November 2015. It was extremely cold that time of year and the area had a significant fox population, so the family who owned the home knew the cats wouldn't be safe there for long.

The CatCuddles Sanctuary responded to the family's call about the cat family immediately, but when they arrived they realized the rescue would be a little more difficult than they'd hoped.

"Because homeless kittens are so vulnerable and are treated as an emergency by the charity, I responded to the call right away," Rae Gellel, a volunteer with The CatCuddles Sanctuary, told The Dodo. "The four young kittens and their mother were completely unreachable; entering through an exposed air vent, they had set up residence in the foundations of the house, a deep labyrinth of dark and drafty tunnels."

In order to rescue them, each kitten and the mom would have to be lured out from underneath the house, as there was no way to go in and get them. The kittens had never had any human contact before, and trying to get them to come straight into the arms of the rescuers would be extremely difficult.

"Their mother was not much better, and if we removed the kittens before capturing her, we risked her moving on and becoming pregnant again within the month," Gellel said.

In the first two nights after discovering the family, rescuers were able to lure out and secure three of the kittens fairly easily. Gellel took the kittens home to foster them, and could see that they were dirty, flea-ridden and anemic — meaning the remaining kitten was as well, and desperately needed to be rescued.

For eight nights, the rescuers waited outside the hole the kittens had emerged from. They set up a trap with food to try and entice the mom and her kitten, but because the trap was expensive they couldn't leave it unattended.

And so, in the cold, mud and sleet, they waited.









The kittens were named Millie and Phoebe …


… and Sully and Boo …


… and the mom was named Lana.


Read more: https://www.thedodo.com/kitten-family-rescued-1944834441.html


Catcuddles Cat Sanctuary Homepage:
http://www.catcuddles.org.uk/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. k&r

[MFM008]

2. great

[narnian60]

3. Thank you, kind humans.

[Lunabell]

4. I have a trove of feral cats near my house

I feed them and have a humane trap that I catch spay neuter and release. So far I have spayed/neutered only 4 cats and I have probably a dozen more to go. Props to the animal rescuers of the world.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. thank you for doing that.

[Little Tich]

7. You're doing a good thing. Keep it up. n/t

[auntpurl]

6. Wonderful.

Humans are great!

[Hissyspit]

8. I did something similar with kittens and a mother in a barn. I had to keep going back to feed them

and lure them out, but it was only two kittens (although I did not know that at the time).