It's monstrous enough to throw a litter of kittens into a dumpster, but it's just a cruel twist of fate for a pile of wood to be thrown on top of them. It sounds like a tear-jerking scene worthy of a Lifetime movie, but this really happened to a real litter of kittens. Lucky for the kittens (and animal lovers/people with souls everywhere), Cliff, real-life superhero, came to the rescue.
According to Bored Panda, Cliff was walking along when he heard the sound of a kitten crying in a nearby dumpster. He sprang into action to rescue the kitten — and all of her siblings, because Cliff quickly realized there were several kittens trapped under the wood.
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"They got dumped in the dumpster, then there was wood dumped on top," Cliff told Love Meow. This hero of a human proceeded to spend seven hours carefully digging the kittens out.
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Cliff's hard work paid off. A Springfield, Missouri-based rescue organization called Watching Over Whiskers took the kittens in and got them healthy. They even recruited a rescued cat named Roxy to be the kittens' surrogate mother.
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All of the kittens have been placed in loving foster homes, all thanks to Cliff.
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