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catbyte

(34,402 posts) Sat Jan 26, 2019, 05:18 PM Jan 2019

OMG. Woman Passes Strange Sealed Boxes -- And Hears Crying

"She walked past the alley and then went back ... thank goodness she did."

By Sarah V Schweig

At first, a woman walking home from work in London passed right by several cardboard boxes — but then she heard something that made her stop in her tracks.

Little cries were coming from the boxes, which were sealed shut with heavy tape.

"She walked past the alley and then went back," Celia Hammond Animal Trust (CHAT) wrote. "Thank goodness she did."

Rescuers from CHAT rushed to help after the woman alerted them, and they heard the heartbreaking meows of cats inside, too. But because the boxes had been left in an alley near a busy road in Stratford, rescuers had to be super careful.

"There were no air holes in the boxes," CHAT wrote. "We didn’t know their temperaments so didn’t dare open the boxes and risk them flying out into the road, so made a few tiny holes to let air in but not big enough to allow them to rip at the cardboard and escape."

A short drive back to the animal clinic later, rescuers were able to discover whose lives they had just saved.

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Inside the boxes was a total of 11 young cats and kittens who would have certainly died if no one had found them.

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https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/sealed-boxes-abandoned-east-london

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The video of the rescuers opening the boxes has to be seen to be believed. More angels and demons.

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OMG. Woman Passes Strange Sealed Boxes -- And Hears Crying (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP

OMG... all those precious babies... so glad they are safe! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #1

Red Kittehs! jpak Jan 2019 #2

A MAGAT sociopath benfranklin1776 Jan 2019 #6

My guess.. SoCalDem Jan 2019 #7

So many! murielm99 Jan 2019 #3

Pretty kitties. Scarsdale Jan 2019 #4

I will give you one possible explanation..(it isn't pretty) Stuart G Jan 2019 #10

Awwwwww! orangecrush Jan 2019 #5

Breaks my heart to think what could have happened. calimary Jan 2019 #8

Excuse me. Soxfan58 Jan 2019 #9

kittens pamdb Jan 2019 #11

Some People.... titanicdave Jan 2019 #12

London has an incredible CCTV system. Seems they should be able to track down the villains. Fla Dem Jan 2019 #13

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,011 posts)

1. OMG... all those precious babies... so glad they are safe!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 05:22 PM

Jan 2019

jpak

(41,758 posts)

2. Red Kittehs!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 05:38 PM

Jan 2019

Who could do that to those cuties!

benfranklin1776

(6,448 posts)

6. A MAGAT sociopath

Reply to jpak (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 06:35 PM

Jan 2019

Fortunately they are outnumbered by fine human beings like the rescuers!

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)

7. My guess..

Reply to jpak (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 06:55 PM

Jan 2019

a cat hoarder either died or was moved to a facility and the people who cleaned up were heartless bastards

Thank goodness these gorgeous babies were saved

murielm99

(30,745 posts)

3. So many!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 06:08 PM

Jan 2019

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

4. Pretty kitties.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 06:20 PM

Jan 2019

Look well fed. Why do this, I wonder? Beautiful eyes.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)

10. I will give you one possible explanation..(it isn't pretty)

Reply to Scarsdale (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 07:45 PM

Jan 2019

..The previous owner can no longer pay to feed them. Perhaps lost what to do, and feeling so bad about it all, the owner puts them out like that to die, hoping that somehow the kitties will be saved. Person doesn't know what to do, and are lost in his/her head as to what to do..??? Why?????
...When a person is that "lost" and feeling that "bad" and "down". .putting them out in boxes, is a possibility....
...Sure, we might know what to do, but that person doesn't want to kill them, so that is what he/she does..
......Who knows..just speculaton...that's all

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No it isn't pretty, but that was an explanation.....not much of one...but it is one.....

orangecrush

(19,572 posts)

5. Awwwwww!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 06:27 PM

Jan 2019

Glad kitties are o.k.!

calimary

(81,314 posts)

8. Breaks my heart to think what could have happened.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 07:24 PM

Jan 2019

I love cats!

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)

9. Excuse me.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 07:45 PM

Jan 2019

But I have to go hug my cat.
😻

pamdb

(1,332 posts)

11. kittens

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 08:01 PM

Jan 2019

Good for you. Creeps exist everywhere, in our country and in yours. But good people are also in both countries. How hard would it be to take the kittens to a Humane society, or whatever it's called in the UK? Thank you for your compassion.

titanicdave

(429 posts)

12. Some People....

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 08:20 PM

Jan 2019

.....if I can actually call them...."people"......have no idea how to treat sweet helpless little animals such as these little kitties........anyway, I could rant against those types of individuals from now until breakfast, so I'll just end by saying how happy I am that the lady went back and that those 11 sweet kitties are OK and I hope that they all get great homes with people who will love them........

Fla Dem

(23,690 posts)

13. London has an incredible CCTV system. Seems they should be able to track down the villains.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 12:24 PM

Jan 2019

I think what happened is these adorable cats and kittens were living with someone who died. Either relatives, landlord or estate seller were cleaning out the house. Just gathered the cats and disposed of them. Just a thought given they were pretty much all the same breed and apparently in pretty good condition. In any case horrible situation that had a happy ending.

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