Mother Cat Thrown From Car Leads Rescuer To Her Kittens

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/08/cat-leads-rescuer-to-kitten_n_1000763.html

After being thrown from a car in the city of March, England, Jolie, a young black cat, was fed and nursed back to health by a good samaritan, who then called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), Ely Weekly News reported.

The frail cat was taken to the vet for treatment. It was obvious that she had just given birth to kittens, so after her recovery, RSPCA inspector Jon Knight returned with her to the location where she was found with the hope of finding the kittens.

"...It was such a rural area, I had little hope of finding them myself," Knight told the station.

"When she started to get really vocal at first I thought she was calling to the kittens, but then it became clear that she was actually calling to me! I began to follow her and she took me through the rear garden, across a ploughed field and into a farm yard."

[ellie]

1. Kitteh!

[Kurovski]

2. All the Cheezy-Poufs and chicken pot pie she wants!

[roguevalley]

18. god yeah. I have always had black cats, American short hairs.

They are the greatest cat ever. What a lovely story finally. A pox on the shithead who hurt her and left her kittehs to die.

[Kurovski]

19. I inherited a black cat from a friend who died.

He came with the name of "Whitey".

A very sweet, sweet boy who died in 1986. :)

EDIT: Does the name "Whitey Kurovski" ring a close bell?

[Odin2005]

3. Kitties!

[RKP5637]

4. What a beautiful cat in so many ways! n/t

[Warpy]

5. Her kittens have been kept for a while at the RSPCA

and are just getting to the cute stage per an article in the UK press a couple of days ago. Momcat's face seems to have healed nicely, too.

I question whether she was thrown from the car of jumped from the car. Other than that, she was obviously a well taken care of pet at some point who trusted people and wanted care for her kittens.

With all the publicity this has gotten, none of them will lack a home.

[dflprincess]

6. Years ago friends of mine had a stray cat hanging around their yard

they tried to coax her into accepting them by leaving her food - but the cat would never come near them.

One morning my friend looked out her back window and could see the cat lying dead in the yard. She went to back door and found on the top step a newborn kitten. So that poor mother cat had left her baby where she knew someone would find him & care for him before she died.

They scoured every corner of their yard and the neighbors' but never found any more kittens. The vet said the poor baby wasn't more than a few hours old and really didn't think he'd survive... They had that cat 18 years.

[KT2000]

15. Oh my -

that is a wonderful story and your friend is very special. Bless her heart.

[snagglepuss]

7. How can people be so unbearable cruel? This story makes me so effing

angry even though I am thrilled that the kittehs are safe. My heart goes out to Jon Knight, that good soul who was sensitive and caring enough to understand momma kitteh.

:loveya:

[RKP5637]

9. I'm always shocked at how unbearably cruel some people can be. I should

know by now, all of my years, all of the history, but yet I am still shocked. Most of my pets through the years have been found lost and abandoned. I certainly can't save them all, but a couple at a time I can and they lead long happy lives with us just like a well cared for kid, absolutely part of the family, 7x24.

[Lionessa]

10. Okay, I'm sorry but I have to step in here.

About ten years ago I hit a cat that flew out from a car, but it wasn't out the window. It was out the wheel well. Never hit the ground before I hit it. No time to react at all. The windows on the sedan were entirely shut, no way anyone threw it. I stopped and it was dead, and the driver I'm sure had no idea the cat had flown out the side of the wheel well. It continued driving forward, not seeing the cat flying out and backwards.

We have to understand that cats love to crawl up into the warm engine areas of cars. Sometimes folks completely unknowingly start the cars and drive off, and the kitties hunker down at first being afraid when the engine starts and then decide to bail as the engine compartment gets too hot and too scary, by then the driver could be miles from home or just around the block. Cats don't always get out in time, before the car starts moving.

Sometimes it's not even the driver's cat, but a neighbor's cat, so they don't even know to look or care or notice.

I don't see anywhere in the article that says anyone saw the animal thrown, only that they found it with injuries consistent with "being thrown" which could easily be the same injuries one would've found on the cat that flew in front of my car, had I had time to stop and not hit it.

[Voice for Peace]

13. that's a sad story, I'm sorry that happened to you.

[snagglepuss]

14. Thanks for that different take on what may have happened.A good reminder

that we ought not jump to conclusions.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. I would like to toss the fuckers who threw this Kitty from a moving vehicle..

from a full speed moving train.

[Skip Intro]

11. Yes. nt

[Skip Intro]

12. All creatures on this planet are amazing in their own rights, but there's someting extra-special

about cats. Can't put my finger on it, but they got it...

on edit - what a great story, a mother cat leads rescuers to her kittens, and they are re-united...

I don't know that I could stop beating the cruel perps, preferably with a baseball bat, were I given the chance.

[Xicano]

16. K&R

What a beautiful kitty...

[Raine]

17. Aw I'm so glad that the sweet mama and her kittens

are all safe and I'm sure will have loving homes.

[lonestarnot]

20. Wonderful conclusion!

:applause:

[tblue37]

21. I wonder how newborn kittens survived for however long it took the cat to recover from her injuries.

A newborn kitten needs its mother's milk. It can't go out hunting or anything like that!