FOUR TINY FELINES
Tuesday evening Alice Stewart and her husband, James, were taking their riding lawn mower to be serviced at Rural King in the Clearview Mall.
Living on nearby Eastview Drive, the pair was traveling along a path to the mall that cuts through the woods when they noticed a box tucked back in the woods, off the beaten path.
Perhaps startled by the sound of the mower, the box was tipped over by its occupants, revealing four small kittens wrapped in a blanket.
The Stewarts decided the kittens must have been abandoned, since the box was so far back in the woods, beyond where the grass is cut. “I don't understand how someone can be so cruel to abandon kittens and yet compassionate enough to put a blanket in the box,” Alice Stewart said Wednesday morning.The Stewarts took the kittens, one gray and three black, back to their house where Alice attempted to bottle feed them.She described the kittens as being so young that they do not even know how to suck on a bottle.At home, the Stewarts also picked some temporary names for the kittens, the gray one being Ponderosa and the three black ones McDonald, Arby and Wendy.The three black kittens are basically indistinguishable, according to Stewart, so she said they always just call the first one they see McDonald, the second Arby and the third Wendy.
Stewart said they do not want to keep the kittens, so she is planning to contact the Butler County Humane Society. However, she is concerned that the kittens might be too young for the shelter to take.“Other than me feeding them for the next few weeks, we don't have any plans,” Stewart said.The couple has a wedding to attend in September, so they need to find a home for the kittens before then.In the meantime, Stewart said she is just trying to do what is right.“You hear so much nastiness going on in the world,” she said.“Not that I'm patting myself on the back, but maybe rescuing four kittens is a good thing.”
