A five-week-old litter of kittens miraculously survived a 500-mile journey as stowaways inside a construction column that traveled from Hayward to San Diego, California.
Workers from DPR Construction were placing the 60-foot column at the new Kaiser Permanente medical offices being built in San Diego when they heard meowing from inside the column.
The kittens were too far inside the column for the workers to simply reach in and retrieve them, and they weren’t able to lure the kittens out with food, either.
Finally, using a crane, the workers gently tipped the column, and the kittens slid out. Someone contacted the San Diego Humane Society, who rushed to the scene as the workers scrambled to collect the kittens. The adorable rescued stowaways were then admitted to the Humane Society’s Kitten Nursery.
The kittens had gone at least two days without food or water, according to the construction crew. Luckily, all the little felines survived, and are reportedly thriving in foster care. They’ll be available for adoption once they’re eight weeks old. So far, two of the rescue crew have expressed an interest in providing a kitten with a forever home.
The mother of the litter, which consists of two females and three males, probably chose the column as a safe place to give birth, but when the column was loaded onto a truck for its journey to San Diego she became separated from her offspring.
The kittens would have remained trapped inside the column after it was installed if the workers had not heard their frantic meowing. Thanks to the diligence of the construction crew, the kittens’ life-threatening journey ended safely.
Humane Society workers have given the kittens the following very apt names: Crowbar, Rebar, Chisel, Jackhammer and Piper.
Thank you to everyone who helped save these poor babies. I hope they all find wonderful and loving new homes.
I’ll take them all !
This is wonderful, but I hope they can backtrack and find Mommy cat. Even if she can’t be moved to where her kittens are, maybe she can be spayed and either released back or adopted. ♥
The animal breed ama suffers like the human race and the blood and red for all.
Glad all the kittens are safe, Hope they all get adopted out to good homes.
Why not try to return them to their mother? I realize it’s 500 miles, but that’s what you’d want if you were separated from your mother/babies. Good on the workers for saving them, but they can be with their family instead of an institution/human. Keep families intact!
Amazing story!
Can they find the mama of those kittens that were trapped in the column in Hayward? Sad. And she probably needs to be spayed.
nice people!
Thank the Dark Lord for those kind workers who rescued these five
little urchins from almost certain death
Thank the Dark Lord for those kind workers who rescued these five
little urchins from almost certain death
Thank the dark lord for those kind workers who rescued those five
little urchins from almost certain death.
Thank you to the heroes of DPR Construction for rescuing these babies.
Crowbar, Rebar, Chisel, Jackhammer and Piper. are just adorable.
True Road Warriors! They’ll get their forever homes soon.
Find another kitten and adopt them out in pairs 💕
I hope someone is helping the poor mother, missing her babies.
Lovely to hear such an extraordinary story with a happy ending!
THANK God this all ended well — THANK YOU to all who rescued these kitties, who STOPPED, listened and made the right calls — I wish the adults were around to be taken in for, at the very least, TNR.
Delighted they were rescued otherwise it would have been a less happy outcome.
Thank God this story has a happy ending. I hope they allgo to loving furever homes. 🐱🐈🐾
Did anyone locate the mother? She must be frantic.