[Vision2020] Caturday (Kay 18, 2019)

[Moscow Cares]

Five tiny kittens survive being trapped in a 60-foot steel column being transported nearly 500 miles. Please welcome Crowbar, Rebar, Chisel, Jackhammer and Piper to Caturday.

Courtesy of SFGate (San Francisco) at:

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/kitten-survival-story-east-bay-san-diego-13850764.php?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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Five kittens survive 475-mile trip from East Bay to San Diego inside 60-foot steel column

Five tiny kittens reportedly took part in a very long and unexpected adventure late last month when construction workers moved a 60-foot steel column containing the felines from Hayward to San Diego — nearly 500 miles away.

As the San Diego Humane Society details in a Facebook video, construction workers who were working on new medical offices heard meows coming from a column they were preparing to install on April 24.

They tilted the column, and the kittens — who were just a week old at the time — slid out. It's unclear whether the stowaways came aboard in Hayward or somewhere along the route.

Sixty feet tall, 14,000 pounds, and they were in there in a dark little hole," said Evan McColl, a construction worker who helped rescue the kittens.

The cats are now in foster care and will be ready for adoption in another couple of months. There are already two interested parties: a couple of the construction workers who helped save them.

And as the Humane Society adds, they've been given appropriate construction names: Crowbar, Rebar, Chisel, Jackhammer and Piper.

"No matter how big and burly you are," McColl said, "we have these iron workers out here who became like little kids holding these kittens and wanting to look after them."

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Video . . . 

Construction workers were shocked to discover a litter of kittens stowed away on their truck after driving from Hayward, Calif. to San Diego. The employees of DPR Construction were at the site of the future Kaiser Permanente Clairemont Mesa Medical Offices when they heard meows coming from a 60-foot  steel column. The employees tried coaxing the kittens out with food, but eventually had to tip the column to get to them. Five kittens slid out, and the  construction workers called San Diego Humane Society for help.  Humane  Officers picked up the one-week old kittens and transferred them to the SDHS Kitten Nursery for 24-hour care. The  kittens, who  are now four weeks old, are named after construction tools and  materials. The three males and two females are Crowbar, Rebar, Chisel, Jackhammer and Piper. The kittens are gaining weight and doing well in foster care. They will remain in foster homes until they are about eight weeks old, at which time they will be put up for adoption.

https://youtu.be/s7mOlHW0isI

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“Caturday” by Linus Petit
http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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