<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div>Courtesy of <i>Global News</i> (Toronto, Canada) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1862052/4-kittens-rescued-after-being-dumped-in-garbage-can-in-langley/">http://globalnews.ca/news/1862052/4-kittens-rescued-after-being-dumped-in-garbage-can-in-langley/</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="story-h" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 36px; font-family: 'Gotham A', 'Gotham B', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 kittens rescued after being dumped in garbage can in Langley</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">VANCOUVER – Five tiny kittens are lucky to be alive after they were found shivering and sitting in their own filth at the bottom of a garbage can in Langley.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A sanitation worker was collecting the garbage when he heard some tiny sounds.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He heard meowing and opened up one of the garbage cans and there they were in the bottom of this can. Just soaked in their own urine and very cold and just terrified,” says Shelly Roche, owner of the world famous <a href="http://www.tinykittens.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Tiny Kittens webcam</a>. She is now taking care of the kittens.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The four have had a bath and been dewormed, but it will be weeks before they can be spayed and neutered and finally adopted out.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sadly, for Roche, she tells this story far too often.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Every year we get kittens that people throw away, or leave in a box in the park, or dump in the road,” she says. “It happens an astonishing amount, it’s hard every time.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It’s hard to imagine how someone could do that to another living creature.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Roche says more than 80,000 kittens will be born this year in Langley alone, but statistics show about 75 per cent will die from starvation or disease if they are not rescued.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It’s heartbreaking to think of the ones we don’t find,” she says.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The key is to spay and neuter your cats to help control the population. But if you are faced with kittens you don’t want, take them to your local animal shelter and they will take them in.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We do our best to accommodate them,” says Roche. “We get overflow foster homes and we place as many as we can in foster care so they can get a home loving experience.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We get them spayed and neutered and ready to go and then we adopt them out.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The five kittens were found in a garbage can.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><img src="cid:82D432DD-C66D-4EDA-B50F-6E098FDCE45C" alt="image1.jpeg" id="82D432DD-C66D-4EDA-B50F-6E098FDCE45C"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_030715_01.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_030715_01.jpg</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><img src="cid:8D4C2F69-1757-4E3C-978A-1CFCC255528B" alt="image2.jpeg" id="8D4C2F69-1757-4E3C-978A-1CFCC255528B"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_030715_02.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_030715_02.jpg</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px;">-------------------------------------</p></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>