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Mother cat dies saving kittens from flames

Charleston Daily Mail courtesy photo The mother of these six-week-old kittens carried each one of them out of a burning Boone County mobile home before dying of smoke inhalation. The kittens, three females and two males, are under observation at Good Shepherd Veterinary Hospital. Itty Bitty Kitty Committee is accepting donations for any unexpected needs the kittens may have. Volunteers are searching for homes for the kittens.
Charleston Daily Mail courtesy photo
The mother of these six-week-old kittens carried each one of them out of a burning Boone County mobile home before dying of smoke inhalation. The kittens, three females and two males, are under observation at Good Shepherd Veterinary Hospital. Itty Bitty Kitty Committee is accepting donations for any unexpected needs the kittens may have. Volunteers are searching for homes for the kittens.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In an act of motherly love and heroism, a cat carried her six kittens one by one out of the abandoned Boone County mobile home they were living in as it burned around them.

And then, once the kittens were safely away from the trailer, she died.

“The momma cat drug each one of them out,” said Lori Sayre, office manager at Good Shepherd Veterinary Hospital. “The paramedics said she couldn’t be revived.”

Sayre said the kittens’ mother died of smoke inhalation. It was her understanding that the fire had occurred Monday night.

Boone County firefighters took the kittens back to a firehouse where they gave them oxygen and cleaned them up. Sayre said paramedics contacted the veterinary hospital Tuesday morning and brought them in.

Six became five as one of the paramedics opted to keep one of the six-week-old kittens. The remaining five, three females and two males, are all under observation at the hospital. The kittens are being monitored for smoke-related issues after the fire.

One, an orange tabby male, suffered a broken leg in the ordeal…

 

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