00:00One trip to the dump turned into a race to save an entire cat family.
00:04Audrey was just dropping off her trash when someone pointed her to a mama cat and her newborn kittens.
00:13Not exactly an ideal place to raise a family.
00:18Think heavy machinery, predators, and endless loud, scary noises.
00:23The mom was feral and wouldn't come anywhere near us. She bolted.
00:28I had to make a really hard decision, but a decision that I knew would be best for the kittens
00:33and for the mommas.
00:43Okay, here, you hold the box.
00:49Rescue is full of split-second decisions, and while separating the kittens from their mom wasn't ideal, Audrey felt it
00:56was their only chance at survival.
01:04So she rushed the babies to a rescue that specializes in newborn kittens.
01:08The kittens immediately went to a cat rescue in Chattanooga called your local fur mama.
01:14Finding their mom was just as important for them to have a higher chance at pulling through.
01:18They also committed to taking the mom once we caught her.
01:21Catching the mom was no easy task, though, because there was lots of other critters and feral cats who called
01:28the dump home.
01:29Good girl, mommy. Good girl.
01:33It took a few tries, and after trapping three other cats, Audrey had finally found the mom she had been
01:38looking for.
01:39Hi, mommy. You're gonna go back with your babies.
01:43The kittens got so big so quick.
01:46Mama did her job, and the kittens eventually grew strong enough to find families of their own.
01:51But mama was already set in her ways, so the best thing to do was to get her spade, get
01:57a clean bill of health, and get her back to the place she had felt most at home.
02:03To each their own.
02:13The transmission of the
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