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Two adorable kittens are miraculously saved by a Good Samaritan after they were both ‘thrown away’ inside a shopping bag found dumped in the middle of a forest.
- Two kittens have been dumped inside a pine forest in the southeast of South Australia.
- A good Samaritan found cats on the outskirts of the rural town of Glencoe
- They had been discarded in a reusable shopping bag and left to die in the heat.
Two young kittens that were heartlessly dumped in the middle of a forest have been miraculously saved by a kind-hearted motorist.
The four-week-old kittens were wrapped inside a reusable shopping bag and abandoned in a pine forest on the outskirts of the rural town of Glencoe, near Mount Gambier, in the southeast corner of South Australia.
A man who was not local to the area spotted the couple on the side of the road as he passed the corner of Glencoe and Kongorong on Boxing Day.
South East Animal Welfare League operations manager Marica Perkovic criticized the owners of the discarded kittens as “cowards.”
Two kittens were discovered on the side of the road by a motorist driving on a road near the South Australian town of Glencoe.
“There is no excuse for animal cruelty and that is what abandoning is,” he said. the advertiser.
Ms Perkovic said the kittens would certainly have died if they hadn’t been rescued, especially considering the area was experiencing temperatures of up to 40C.
He claimed that the person or persons who “deliberately” dumped the kittens probably already had a cat that was not neutered.
“Whether it was a farm cat or a house cat, it had a litter and then (the owners) decided ‘okay, we’ll throw them away,'” he said.
He lashed out at the owners again in a post on the South East Animal Welfare League’s Facebook page.
‘As 2022 comes to a close…we still have heartless people abandoning unwanted animals for members of the public to find. It’s not good enough… to sterilize your animals and not be a coward when it comes to responsibility.
Both kittens are now in the care of the South East Animal Welfare League.
It comes just days after seven kittens were found alive after being dumped in a car park in the Adelaide suburb of Athelstone.
It comes just days after seven kittens were found alive after being dumped in a parking lot (four of the abandoned kittens pictured)
The seven little creatures were found in a zipped suitcase on Christmas Day.
Three of the kittens were just three weeks old and had not yet been weaned from their mother, while the other four were around 10 weeks old.
A man who was walking came across the suitcase around 8 am Sunday next to the Athelstone Recreational Reserve and was horrified by what he saw.
It was lucky that I found them in the morning, since that same day the temperature in Adelaide rose to 32°C.
The man took the kittens home, gave them water and contacted the RSPCA South Australia branch.
Three of the kittens (pictured) were just three weeks old and had not yet been weaned from their mother.
The 10-week-old kittens are now in good condition at the RSPCA and are expected to make a full recovery from their ordeal.
The abandonment of the kittens is now being investigated by the animal organization.
Anyone with information about the case can contact the group on 1300 277 722.
If the person who abandoned the kittens is found, they could face two years in jail or a $20,000 fine under South Australia’s Animal Welfare Act.