A package of four young kittens was handed off to the Mill Road Vet Clinic in Whangarei, New Zealand’s port city. Three of the cats were striped tabbies, and one was black.
The clinic personnel moved the box inside and got to work on figuring out how to feed the newborns appropriately.
They also noticed an adult tabby cat at the clinic’s front entrance the next morning, which anxiously darted under the glass and tried for a way inside every time someone entered.
One of the employees eventually gave in and unlocked the door for her. The cat bolted inside, where she was inspected and discovered to be a nursing mother. People assumed there was a link between yesterday’s kittens and today’s nursing cat, thus the cat was referred to kittens.
The interaction was brief and delicate, and the cat was quickly reunited with her pups, who she proceeded to nurse after she had calmed down.
Clinic employees suspect the cat is a stray, and that someone found her kittens and put them in a box before bringing them to the clinic. And the cat chased them down, maybe detecting them by smell or mother instinct.
Or she was placed in the same box as kittens but leaped out when she heard people. The kittens had already been carried inside when she returned, so she began hunting for them. Currently, one of the veterinary clinic’s staff has brought the cat and her puppies home.
