A new child kitten has been discovered after it was dumped in a shoe field at West Croydon bus station. The tiny kitten which was simply two days old nonetheless had the umbilical wire hooked up when it was found on Saturday evening (February 24) by a person ready for a bus.
He was heading to the pub, so took the kitten with him to see if anybody might assist. Thankfully a household took the kitten home and stored him secure earlier than contacting Croydon Animal Samaritans on Sunday morning (February 25).
Volunteers rapidly discovered a hand rearer, Mary, who agreed to care for him so that they travelled to her home the identical day with feeding provides. Despite some wonderful assist from the neighborhood, the kitten was sadly not very nicely at this level.
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A spokesperson stated: “The kitten had not managed any meals earlier than then, which was clearly very worrying. But he has managed 20mls of kitten milk since arriving at Mary’s, is latching nicely and is urinating, so we’ve excessive hopes this child will survive. He is certainly in the fitting place to take action now! We know it is going to nonetheless be contact and go although.”
The charity stated this got here amid a busy weekend when it was coping with a surrendered canine and was getting ready to take a number of cats into its care.
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