Meet Banner the Super Dog, a service dog who recently added “rescuing kittens” to her growing list of selfless achievements.
The seven kittens had been left to die in a cardboard box in the woods. Banner’s owner, Whitney Braley of Menlo, Georgia, was outside with her on July 3 when Banner suddenly began to behave out-of-character. According to Braley, she acted “extremely distressed” and was pulling at her dress.
Banner led her owner to the box of freezing, day-old kittens. After ensuring that the kittens were healthy enough to survive, Braley took them in.
Immediately, Banner’s maternal instincts kicked in, and she has refused to leave their side ever since. The kittens receive ample care and affection from their dutiful new foster mom, who cleans, cuddles, and naps with them. They will remain under her watchful eye until they’re old enough to be adopted.
Watch this adorable video to enjoy the special bond between Banner and her kittens!
A very special bond indeed.
Thank you Banner . you are a big Hero to those 7 little messes and me
Banner is awesome! Love it!
Very sweet and lovely. Thanxx Banner!
Animals could teach us a thing or two about kindness. Just wish Banner wasn’t wearing such a thick collar indoors – looks very uncomfortable!
QUE SER LINDO QUE É ESSA CADELINHA. PARABÉNS A SUA MAMÃE HUMANA!!!!
Wow Banner is a great dog I’m sure his owner is very proud of him.Nice to see a good story like this of something so nice in this world.I hope everything the best for Banner and and family,and his new little baby’s.
it’s a girl dog you nutnut
Bless Banner for what he did to save these precious kittens I’m happy to hear good news for once it just goes to show how dogs can be loyal and to help in times of distress I wish people could learn from animals they know nothing but love as for humans they are disgraceful and have gotten to the point they don’t care but animals they dont change they know one thing only and that is love God bless all animals big and small
it’s a girl dog you nutnut
Response to Lutetia Vollintine excuse me if it was a typo I meant girl dog but the S didnt come out and thanks for calling me a nut nut same back to you
Good for Banner and her owner.
We could learn a lot from animals and there compassion.
I wish more humans had the same kind of brains that this dog has. Why can’t there be less cruelty and more caring in the world of today.
So cute! That dog has more sense than so many ppl.
For once some good news instead of animals being terribly abused!
Such lucky kittens to have Banner to rescue, protect and take care of them. Wonderful Banner !
Thank you for sharing this lovely story about Banner and her foster kittens. Banner’s kittens are very lucky to have been rescued by such a clever foster mom.
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Amazing. Beautiful dog.
What a smashing dog . They are not kittens but the dogs puppies.
What an amazing dog!
How lovely
Banner is certainly a Super Dog. How sweet that she’s taken these orphans under her paw, and given them the love that any tiny life needs. I hope lots of people are looking for a Banner Kitty in the future <3
I'm a Cat Person / Animal Lover. Some of my favorite stories and videos are showing dogs and cats getting along.
I especially love seeing orphan kittens, puppies, bunnies, etc, being adopted by a loving Mom <3
What an amazing dog! I wish the mama cat would have been there too. I hope she’s ok.
So intelligent looking herodog !
Thank you so much.
Wonderful!
Kittens are still being euthanized because they reproduce like flies! The person who put them in the woods probably didn’t have the heart to kill them, so he left them to die a painful (I guess) death. If they live they will further eradicate the bird and rodent (not all bad) population. They are so cute, but so deadly to other species. There are not enough humans who want a cat and, like me already have some, to support them. Mother Nature can be a cruel bitch.
I’m curious about the comment that the lady was looking “first” to see if the kittens were “healthy enough to survive” before bringing them in. Perhaps an error in context and it was meant to imply that she may have taken them elsewhere (vet, Humane Society) had they not been well enough for her to bring them into her own home but I was left rather shocked and wondering whether the implication was that she would have just left them had they not been “healthy enough to survive”. ??
I thought the same thing.
Your comment about cats eradicating the bird and rodent population really has no place in a sweet and positive story.
And freezing and/or starvation is a very painful way to DIE. Remember that next time you’re really hungry or very cold.
And the worst species devastating the bird population is humans. Cats do not overdevelop vital habitats, like of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow – extinct because people wanted beachfront homes. Cats did not poison California Condors to the brink of extinction with DDT – humans did that. Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have been gone for over 50 years because humans drained their wetland habitat. And then there’s Bald Eagle – either DDT or lead poisoning.
These are just a few of the extinctions or near-extinction man has caused. But it’s so much easier to blame cats.
With pollution, pesticides, habitat loss, destruction. and fragmentation, mirrored buildings, man has killed off more wild birds than ANY population of cats could. I realize cats hunt birds, but they primarily prey on rodents. Rodents that spread disease, destroy crops and other property. Our neighborhood cats are attracted to birdfeeders because of the RODENTS attracted to fallen seed. If a person would observe the ground around feeders at night, they’d be surprised. Cats are crepuscular hunters Birds are roosting at the time cats start their hunts. It’s the rodents they’re mainly after. But cats did learn to check out feeders for anything coming around.
I believe in and help with T-N-R’ing feral and stray cats, and re-homing kittens, like these. If more people would stop playing the Blame Game and try to do something positive, maybe the situation would improve. But it’s just easier to blame and hate cats., and kill as many as some people can. Very sad.
Mother Nature is a cruel bitch, but humans have to ability to choose.
Thank you, Patricia, for eloquently pointing out what misconceptions people have about cats. I used to blame feral cats in our suburb for killing crepuscular cardinals in my yard until my daughter saw an owl capture one outside our window at dusk. That is certainly Mother Nature doing what comes naturally.
Thank you so much Patricia, my thoughts precisely. I agree with you 100%. The human species is so quick to want to place blame on the animals when it is humans causing all the destruction. People have choices to do what’s right, animals do not. People hog and take all the land to build lots of crap that is not needed, so then when the land is gone and animals show up in their backyards, they cry and want someone to come get rid of them. Then that means killing off those animals. Hunters are killing off more species than our cats are but we can’t get rid of those hunters can we, no let’s blame all the wild animals for being killed. It’s such an idiotic world to constantly blame animals for something humans caused. If it was a choice between living with humans or animals, with me, guess who wins out.