<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of The Sun (London, England) at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3870051/Suffocating-kittens-br-dumped-in-handbag.html">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3870051/Suffocating-kittens-br-dumped-in-handbag.html</a><div> </div><div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; "><h1 class="medium centered" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 50px; text-align: center; font-weight: normal; font-family: impact, arial, helvetica; line-height: 1.1em; clear: left; ">Suffocating kittens <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">dumped in handbag</h1></span><img src="cid:1B87B16D-C79D-45F9-B67A-1F73A183EBF0" alt="image.jpeg" id="1B87B16D-C79D-45F9-B67A-1F73A183EBF0" width="682" height="407" apple-original-width="682" apple-original-height="407"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; "><div class="small bold" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 0.775em; font-weight: bold; ">Left for dead ... seven kittens found dumped in an airtight bag near a cat shelter in South Wales</div></span><div><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">THESE seven kittens are lucky to be alive — after being callously dumped in a zipped-up handbag and left for dead.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">The six week-old kitties were crammed into the airtight PVC bag and left — suffocating to death — on the side of the road close to a cat shelter.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">When they were discovered by a curious passer-by, they were only semi-conscious and suffering from lack of oxygen and heat exhaustion.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">Sue Dobbs is the centre manager of the Cat Protection Centre, Bridgend, South Wales, where the newborn cats were found.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">She said: "It was a real stroke of luck that my husband happened to be driving past to go to the corner shop.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">"He saw the bag and thought one of the staff must have left it behind by accident so got out and checked it.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">"It was so lucky he did - because the vet said the cats would not have survived for much longer."</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "><img src="cid:9CF354C2-A364-45B5-B469-C4BEB94FBCE2" alt="image.jpeg" id="9CF354C2-A364-45B5-B469-C4BEB94FBCE2" width="682" height="488" apple-original-width="682" apple-original-height="488"><br></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; ">Adorable ... the six week-old cats are now making a good recovery and will be looking for new homes</span><br></p></span></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">She added: "It's the worst case I've seen in 13 years.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">"We do see animals being dumped or abandoned but in all my time I have never seen anything like this."</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); ">Around a third of all the cats taken in by Cats Protection across the UK are stray or abandoned and the Bridgend centre has a waiting list of more than 300 cats and kittens at one time.</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "><img src="cid:DC84B1C5-94DB-4779-B0B2-CB20FEDAFBBB" alt="image.jpeg" id="DC84B1C5-94DB-4779-B0B2-CB20FEDAFBBB" width="682" height="538" apple-original-width="682" apple-original-height="538"><br></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; ">Lucky toms ... the kittens were semi-conscious when they were discovered in the nick of time</span><br></p></p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Molly Hughes, deputy manager, said: "We seem to be living in a throwaway society where some people think nothing of just getting rid of innocent newborn kittens and older cats and I think it is an extremely sad state of affairs."</p><p style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Thankfully the kittens are now making a good recovery and will soon be available for homing.</p><div>------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"Honest and true,</span></div><div>As the morning star.</div><div>Vote for just two,</div><div>Ament and Lamar."</div></div></div></div><img src="cid:E6596E56-7BEE-4EE4-87C8-C6CDB74A172B" alt="image.jpeg" id="E6596E56-7BEE-4EE4-87C8-C6CDB74A172B" width="200" height="100" apple-original-width="200" apple-original-height="100"></body></html>