CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Four kittens are searching for new houses after they had been discovered inside a backpack on the Great Miami River.
The tabbies are at the moment within the care of Ross Pet Barn.
The co-owners of the pet provide retailer in Fairfield, Kaitlin Fliehman and Sara Schneider, stated they first discovered concerning the kittens in a Facebook message on April 24.
That message is from a lady who stated she was walking alongside a motorbike path in Hamilton when one among her sons noticed one thing on the Great Miami River.
“He saw a Nike backpack that was stuck on a twig on the shallow end of the river,” defined Schneider.
The boy retrieved the bag, hoping so as to add it to his assortment, however when he opened the bag, he discovered the 4 kittens.
“They were waterlogged, and their eyes were just wide open, so they didn’t know what exactly they had found, and then they blinked,” stated Schneider.
Not positive how the simply weeks-old Tabbies bought there, the co-owners assume they did all they might to outlive.
“They got stuck on the limb, and they were able to crawl up the backpack enough and stay afloat so that they didn’t drown,” Fliehman stated.
Fliehman and Schneider say the kittens had been discovered barely malnourished and with worm stomach.
Despite the percentages, the kittens prevailed. They are actually doing a lot better and able to discover a eternally home.
Fliehman and Schneider stated if somebody is ever in a position the place they’ll’t hold their pets, they need to give up them to shelters or mom-and-pop pet shops like Ross Pet Barn. They say this can be a safer and extra humane different.
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