Kittens rescued after Israeli airstrike on Beirut (video)

We have no idea how many companion animals have been killed in these airstrikes and those in Gaza. A lot I suspect. The mother of these kittens was killed. They will have to be raised by these volunteers unless they can find a surrogate mum.

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Tiny kitten rescued by Ukrainian soldier in the Ukraine war

The picture is nice. It's beautiful in many ways. And it shows a great gentleness by the Ukrainian soldier during this brutal war. There is great tenderness in the picture. I suspect that the guy was in that vehicle behind him and they saw the cat in the grass, stopped and returned to rescue it. But did they rescue the kitten?

We don't know what happened next. We hope that the kitten was taken by the soldiers and rehomed. That would be the ideal but a kitten this young is so vulnerable under such circumstances and I wonder whether these guys have the time and the freedom to take care of a young kitten. It's very difficult to look after such an animal under war conditions. It also requires considerable knowledge and skill.

Tiny kitten rescued by Ukrainian soldier in the Ukraine war. Image: Ukraine Territorial Defence Forces. Poltava TDF Brigade.

But importantly, when I see this picture, I can't help but think about all the other thousands of kittens and cats and dogs and puppies who were not rescued by a kind soldier; who died because they starved to death or were shelled by Putin's forces. Putin has been responsible for many hundreds of thousands of animal deaths. Innocent lives which you must add to the human innocent lives that he has taken in the same way.

RELATED: 11-year-old Ukrainian girl takes on responsibility of feeding abandoned cats in devastated Ukraine.

I was told today by The Sunday Times that a large number of people are documenting Putin's war crimes. As I recall there are about 44,000 instances of war crimes perpetrated by Putin's forces in Ukraine during the war so far. They are determined to collect all the evidence that they need to successfully prosecute this monstrous individual when the war has finally been won by the forces of good over the evil of Putin.

I feel sorry for the Russian soldiers. They aren't to blame except for the generals and army leaders on the ground. They are equally to blame. But the lowly infantryman on the front-line sent to their death, we can't blame him. He is as much a victim as the innocent grandmother with her elderly cat, shelled in her apartment block.

Dogs can be better cat rescuers than humans sometimes

This is a little story from social media which tells us that dogs can sometimes be better cat rescuers than humans (or sort of). But they always need human help.

I think the story is told by a woman but I am unsure. She was walking with her dog who became interested in something under a bush. She pushed him to come with her but "he continued going back to that bush and looking under it".

Dogs can be better cat rescuers than humans sometimes. The bonded pair. Image: the story's narrator who is anonymous.

She went to look under the bush too and saw a young kitten in a desperate state. She was dying, covered in fleas and skin and bone.

The woman took the kitten home and cared for her.

"We took it home. Took care of it and the kitten would not leave my dog out of sight. Since then, they sleep together. She adores her rescuer."

But for her dog the kitten would be dead. This kitten was saved by the dog but she needed human help to do some of the caring.

Mama cat and litter of kittens rescued from a trash-bound couch just in the nick of time

Another good ending for a mom and her kittens thanks to some sensible people and rescuers. I feel that this video is as much about the volunteers who rescue cats, and the sensible people who are sensitive to the sentience of stray cats. 

Without these people this sofa would have been thrown onto a lorry and the kittens inside could have been killed. 

It does not surprise me that they made their home in this sofa that was outside a house in preparation for picking up by I presume a contractor to be thrown away on a council dump. 

It's an ideal little home for a stray cat. An ideal den for a mother cat looking for somewhere safe. Somewhere which provides protection against the weather.

Perhaps there is a lesson as well that sofas left outside a home should be checked briefly for cats! It's the same sort of awareness concerning cats crawling into the engine compartment of vehicles to keep warm in winter.

The video was made in Ohio, USA and was originally on the HUMANKIND, USA TODAY
website. In time the video may stop working please note as it is embedded here and not served by the computer which serves the article.

Screenshot.

AITA for giving away some of my girlfriend's rescue cats?

The man asks on Reddit.com whether he behaved badly (AITA) when he felt he was forced to rehome some rescue cats that his girlfriend had found. The title sort of indicates that he might have behaved badly but when you read the story carefully, he hasn't at all.

Reddit's AITA category for discussion.

His story

He works from home and he owns his home. His girlfriend of two years lives with him in his home. She also works from home. She does not pay rent.

She found a box of 6, 2-week-old abandoned kittens by the side of the road (that stuff happens which is appalling). She asked him whether she could bring them in to the home and he agreed even though he has a severe cat allergy. Although he asked whether she could take them to a shelter but she didn't want to do that and he relented.

Conditions he set

But he said he would allow them to come into his home on condition that she adopted them out at eight weeks of age. In the meantime, they should stay in the guest room/bathroom. And he agreed to look after them if he had to in an emergency otherwise the responsibility was his girlfriend's.

She breaks the agreement?

After four months they were still in the house and they needed fixing i.e. spaying and neutering and he did not want the expense. Also, they were now roaming around the house. His girlfriend tried to get him to clean the litter tray because she didn't feel like it, he said.

He said that his allergy to the cats was a real problem for him and that he had to constantly take precautions like wash clothes et cetera to minimise the allergic reaction.

Warned her of adopting them out

He told her three weeks before he adopted them out that he would do so. Eventually he posted them on Facebook offering them for adoption. She agreed to it.

A couple of people responded and met with him. She agreed with that as well. As a result, four of the cats were adopted out. She appears to have been out of the home at the time and when she returned, she "flipped her shit".

He was very surprised. He said that she was angry because he didn't let her say goodbye to them. He said that he gave her two months of goodbye time. He asked AITA?

Adopt a rescue kitten and receive $1000 of vouchers for free air travel!

This is a hot-off-the-press news story with a short lifespan! Frontier Airlines must have a chief executive who likes animals and is concerned about animal welfare. I can't think of any other good reason. I am delighted. The airline has offered the public vouchers for free flights if they each adopt one of three rescue kittens found in North Las Vegas.

Frontier Airlines has offered flight vouchers for pet parents who adopt any of three kittens named Spirit, Frontier, and Delta (from left to right) at the Animal Foundation in Las Vegas.(The Animal Foundation via CNN)

They were found about two weeks ago and are currently at a foster home. They are nearly newborn and once they are ready to be adopted out, they will.

They named the kittens Spirit, Delta and Frontier. The airline picked up on this and are delighted that they've named the kittens after airlines one of them theirs.

As a reward and in the interests of promoting animal welfare, a representative of Frontier Airlines told CNN that adopters who take Spirit or Delta will receive two vouchers valued at $250 for a total of $500 in vouchers per pet parent.

And a special reward will befall the person who adopts the kitten named Frontier. They will receive four $250 vouchers with a total value of $1000. How about that? You're going to be handsomely paid to adopt a rescue kitten which you might have adopted anyway.

Two of the kittens are ginger tabbies, one with a bit of white and the other pure ginger tabby. Ginger tabby cats have a reputation for having good characters.

The third cat is the cat named Frontier. This is an interesting cat. They have calico markings which means that she is female. The other two are probably males.

They are currently at the Animal Foundation in Las Vegas according to Fox 5 Vegas. Anybody in the area who was thinking of adopting a cat should get on the phone immediately! You might have $1000 worth of free airline tickets for 2023 to enjoy.

This is so sweet! Thank you for the honor, @animalfndlv! We'd love to donate two flight vouchers each to the people who adopt @Delta and @Spirit; and four vouchers to the person who adopts Frontier. 💚🐱 @FOX5Vegas pic.twitter.com/kbmud6RcZt

— Frontier Airlines (@FlyFrontier) December 28, 2022

Kitten thrown from car outside the home of the person who adopted him

Sometimes there can be a domestic cat merry-go-round. It happens all over the place in all developed countries to varying extents. I read about them a lot. One person throws a kitten away. Another person picks him up and lives with him the rest of his life. Sometimes that process is extended whereby the second owner also gives up the kitten or adult cat to a rescue. They adopt the cat out. The adopter might also relinquish their cat. It can be a merry-go-round.

Gray - a cat who was thrown away from a car as a kitten and adopted by the owner of the house near to where it happened. Photo: Janet Johson.

There is a good and rather stark example on the Internet. It comes from Janet Johnson. It happened last January when her son looked out of their front window at 8:15 PM. They live in South Carolina and the temperature was forecast to drop to 28°F. A cold night.

Johnson's son turned to her mother and said that somebody just threw something out of the car in front of their house. She went to the front door to have a look as the non-descript car pulled away.

Walking down the driveway was a little grey kitten about 4-5 months old. Johnson was not in the mood to adopt a kitten but she had lost a Maine Coon that she had adopted in 2011. He disappeared mysteriously the year before last. Perhaps he is another victim of the merry-go-round? Stolen and sold?

Johnson rescued and adopted the little grey kitten and called him Gray. She said that he is healthy, happy, neutered, loved and aggravating at 5 AM. The casualness with which the people in that non-descript car threw away their kitten is shocking. It was right in front of Johnson's house for anyone to see.

Throwing out kittens is a bit like fly tipping in the UK when people throw away items by the roadside along country lanes. They do this because it's easier to do rather than taking it down to the council tip. It's laziness. In respect of kittens it is callousness. The mentality of people who do this is very poor. They could take the kitten to a rescue centre. Too messy and too much trouble. Too embarrassing as the reason is probably allowing cats to breed.

But there is a merry-go-round between the bad people and the good people as illustrated. However, sometimes it's just about mediocre people who adopt and give up and then somebody else adopts and they give up and so it goes on.

This practice happened a lot during Covid lockdowns in the UK regarding dogs, actually. Casual and self-indulgent adoptions of puppies led to early relinquishments when they realised dog ownership is not a pushover, which led to advertising their dog for sale on social media (against the rules on Facebook) which in turn led to more careless adoptions and so on. The victims are the companion animals who are shunted around between different owners.

Woman had dreamt of adopting a stray cat and it happened in Walmart. She did great.

She spots a stray kitten in a humungous Walmart. She was told the kitten was abandoned in the car park and had been coming into the store. It seems the abandonment had happened a little while ago. The woman acts positively and quickly without doubts. She'd been dreaming of this moment and it happened. 

"I've always dreamed of this day."

Woman had dreamt of adopting a stray cat and it happened in Walmart. She did great.

Mentally she was attuned to the moment which helped to act correctly and well. The video explains it all. It is a good one; liked 1.3m times. A major success. She had the presence of mind to video the whole process of meeting the kitten and adopting her. Clever and sensible. 👍

@wallyfromthemart

Worker told me this ##kitten was dumped in the ##Walmart parking lot. Kitty keeps sneaking into the Garden Center. I couldn't leave it there. ##fyp

♬ original sound - Wally's rescuer

Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it.

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I like the way that she grabbed a can of cat food from the shelf and fed the kitten immediately. She paid for it at the checkout! She bought a cat carrier there and then. No doubts. No prevarication. All action. And successfully.👌

Woman had dreamt of adopting a stray cat and it happened in Walmart. She did great.. Job done. Adopted! 😇

The kitten is quite domesticated. Lovely to see her being  cuddled and purring on the lady's shoulder. The bonding had begun and there was no going back. The lady made a life-changing decision.

This is a cross-post from another website as I thought it was worth it. It is a good story. I wish them both the best of luck. They should have 15+ or more years together. She called him Wally.

Some time later (don't know how long). What happened next...

@wallyfromthemart

The stuff I gotta get done can wait. 🤷‍♀️ ##WallyTime ##wally ##kittensoftiktok ##rescue ##Walmart

♬ original sound - Wally's rescuer

If you help save a street cat God will help you

If you help save a street cat God will help you. Screenshot.

The guy in the video who saves this kitten by releasing his head from the pipe said: You help them, God will help you (Public Message). The title to the post is a slight modification. It is a good one. But would this guy have done this if he believed God would not help him? Was his act, therefore, selfish? I'll let you ponder that one. In the meantime: great rescue. I'd have taken the little fella home :) 

Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it.

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Awesome preparation for multi-kitten rescue from urban concrete gully full of rubbish

 Preparation for kitten rescue from concrete gully full of rubbish

The picture is a screenshot from a YouTube video. It shows a cat rescuer abseiling (sort of) into a concrete gully in an urban environment with a carrier for several kittens. There are five kittens there. They were hiding under some cardboard. The notable aspect of the kitten rescue is the preparation and the precision. It is really well thought through both to protect the people and the cats. And to successfully capture them. Highly impressive. The team are from the Hope for Paws animal rescue organisation. The video has been hugely successful as expected. Such a cool cat rescue.

Do you feel as surprised as me that there are great people as seen here spending all this time and effort in rescuing kittens when at the same time millions of unwanted cats are killed at shelters annually in the USA or they used to be? The numbers euthanized has fallen considerably (thankfully but it is still high). And the rescue contrasts with people at the other end of the character spectrum: those that abuse and are cruel to cats. The world seems very strange to me.

Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it.

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Transformation of scared, skinny, abandoned kitten to loved, content adult

 

Nimbus the cat's transformation is legendary

"A little TLC can turn a crinkled tissue into a beautiful cloud. Nimbus's transformation was legendary.." - the person who posted the pics to Reddit.

Notice that the before pictures shows Nimbus with 'pink eye'  a secondary bacterial infection so typical of stray and abandoned cats. If left it can cause the loss of an eye or eyes. It is cured with antibiotics. See best antibiotics for a cat bite - another story completely.

Not sure of the backstory and history of this white cat. It has to be pretty dire. I am guessing that Nimbus was a rescued kitten or young cat who flowered with plenty of TLC (tender loving care) into a cool-looking white gem. It is always the same reason for the before look and the same reason for the after look. Neglect, abuse or abandonment causes the before look and a ton of genuine love and care results in the after appearance.

Pictures of kitten Kara's transformation after rescue from a barn

I don't know anything about this cute kitten other than what's in the title which, as it happens, is self-explanatory. All I know is the people who rescued her did a nice job. Kindness carries weight and is impressive in a greedy world driven by self-interest. Well done guys and ladies.

Photos: Reddit.

I hope her mother is okay and any siblings. I fear her siblings may not have been so lucky.

YouTube video makers are staging kitten rescues for money

I've been watching some cat and kitten rescues on YouTube. I thought I would catch up with what's going on in that marketplace. Immediately I smelled trouble; the two videos I saw made me doubt their veracity. They both appear to be staged. 

It is as of the film maker planned the whole thing like a mini-movie. Particularly the one on this page. It shows a kitten with a piece of cast-iron drainpipe around her body. This is a heavy piece of iron. The video maker walks up to the kitten who is struggling in what appears to be a part of a farm near some abandoned machinery. 

The filmmaker very, very slowly removes the cast-iron drainpipe from the kitten. It is done in the most elaborate and theatrical way. The moment is teased out over several minutes. It is quite ridiculous and it is shameful. The person uses one hand while the other holds the bloody camcorder! Shit. It is so crappy.

There is no way this kitten would end up with a piece of cast-iron drainpipe around her body unless it was put there by somebody. And I allege with complete conviction that it was put there by the filmmaker. Why would a kitten push their body through a piece of tight drainpipe like that? What was at the other end of it? What reward was there for the kitten to do it? How did the kitten manage to do it? They are all so unlikely as to be impossible to envisage.

If I'm correct, and I am convinced that I am correct,  this is shameful behaviour. This filmmaker is conning YouTube into believing that they are involved in genuine kitten rescue. They are conning Google AdSense who are paying them for adverts on their video. And they are conning the advertisers who want to place their adverts on their video. Finally, they are conning the public into believing it is genuine.

YouTube need to investigate this sort of thing because I believe that it is more widespread than people believe. The comments under the video indicate that those who have watched it don't understand what is going on. Nobody is asking the common sense question as to how this happened. As I said, it is likely that the only way it could happen is if it was staged.