Five miracle kittens still need help
Published: October 8, 2005
Five “miracle” kittens saved late Thursday from compaction at a Yonkers recycling plant are doing well, but still need help, their rescuers said.
Marianne Petronella, a program administrator with the Westchester County Solid Waste Management Program, said she spent most of Thursday night and yesterday morning caring for the infant kittens, saved from a conveyor belt leading to a machine that bales recyclable paper into 1-ton bricks at the Westchester County Municipal Recovery Facility.
The kittens, which Petronella called a “miracle,” had not yet been weaned. They must be fed with a syringe.
Some of the kittens were treated at the New Rochelle Humane Society for eye infections, but were otherwise unharmed, Petronella said.
“All five of them are doing fine,” Petronella said. “They made it through the night.”
Workers sorting garbage and cardboard from recyclable paper on a moving conveyor Thursday saw three of the kittens just a few feet from a chute where they would have been dropped to the baling mechanism. The kittens’ dead mother and three dead kittens also were on the belt.
The workers stopped the belt and collected the kittens. They later found two others alive in material collected in a backhoe.
Twelve Journal News readers responded to Petronella’s plea for help yesterday, with offers to adopt the kittens. Petronella said the county had collected the messages, but first wanted to find someone who knew how to care for unweaned kittens or who owns a cat that is nursing.
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