<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>A group of fourth graders are being credited with saving a kitten from certain death by stopping a woman who was attempting to drown it. Somebody tell these kids that they are more than welcome on Caturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>CBS News</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-kids-save-kitten-from-drowning-just-seconds-before-certain-death/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-kids-save-kitten-from-drowning-just-seconds-before-certain-death/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div><h1 class="title" itemprop="headline" style="font-size: 50px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: foundation-sans-black, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34); line-height: 0.9; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; letter-spacing: -0.05em; word-spacing: -0.04em;">Okla. kids save kitten from drowning just seconds before certain death</h1></div><div>BOSWELL, Okla. -- A group of fourth graders in Boswell, Oklahoma, are being credited with saving a kitten from drowning, just seconds away from certain death. Their story is now serving as an example for the whole community, CBS affiliate KXII reports. </div><div><br></div><div>The kids were playing outside after school when they heard a loud cry. But when they went over to see what was going on, they were shocked by what they saw and knew they needed to help.</div><div><br></div><div>“They found a kitten in a bucket,” Tiffany Rubio said.</div><div><br></div><div>“I was scared,” one of the kids said.</div><div><br></div><div>That loud cry turned out to be a kitten fighting for her life as an elderly woman is about to drown it.</div><div><br></div><div>“I thought she was gonna hurt the cat,” the kid said.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s when the group of kids, who live with foster parents, stepped up to make sure the kitten would find a home.</div><div><br></div><div>“They were pretty distressed, they didn’t want anything bad to happen to it,” Rubio said, who is a teacher at their school, Boswell Elementary School.</div><div><br></div><div>Though we don’t know how many were killed, the kids begged for the one kitten they saw and brought it to Rubio.</div><div><br></div><div>“Whenever they told me what had gone down, I was like I can’t believe someone would do this to an animal. The kitten was covered in fleas and starving.”</div><div><br></div><div>Rubio, who also sits on the city council, said the stray cat problem is so extreme, they didn’t bother to file a police report. The elderly woman is not facing charges.</div><div><br></div><div>But their story does not end here.</div><div><br></div><div>Rubio contacted Linda Arnold, who fosters kittens in Sherman, and now Arnold is taking care of the kitten at her house until she is healthy enough to be adopted.</div><div><br></div><div>“We decided that we would use it as an educational tool to work with the other children in the class and let them see what a difference these kids made by doing the right thing,” Arnold said.</div><div><br></div><div>The right thing that saved a life, and now Arnold is sending pictures and videos two to three times a week for Rubio to share with her class.</div><div><br></div><div>“It’s teaching them that this kind of behavior to an animal is unacceptable,” Rubio said.</div></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Photo</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_111216.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_111216.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><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></body></html>