Trash to treasure: Adorable kittens found in rubbish bin are tiny but can fill your heart
From trash to treasure: ‘We may be little but we sure can fill up your heart.’ / Photo: Chanel Comis
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
If you love animals, you might be afraid to take out your trash. Especially during kitten and puppy seasons, it is not uncommon to find live, half-dead, or worse babies in rubbish bins here on the island of Kefalonia, elsewhere in Greece, in the United States, and in many other places around the world.
Three of the many rescued pooches with whom my husband and I share our home in California are from the garbage bins just down the road from our house here in Kefalonia. Ironically, I had gone to the bins so as to throw away the poop produced by the litter of five other puppies who I was fostering in that spring of 2008.
The Saint (a.k.a. my hubsy) with ex-trash puppy Ajax / Photo: Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
Now those three “trash puppies” of ours are healthily grown up and spend most of their time vying over who gets to sit in my husband’s lap. So there are occasional happy endings to the abominable dumping episodes.
Still, those of us who have seen too much of this cruel and cowardly custom cringe when we’re near trash receptacles of all shapes and sizes, fervently praying we won’t hear whimpering or mewing.
Unfortunately that’s what happened to my new friend Chanel Comis last weekend.
Do you have a soft spot in your home and your heart for one of her adorable trash babies? Or can you help find great families for them?
Here’s the message Comis sent me…
Dear Katerina,
My name is Chanel and I’m a local here in Kefalonia. My friends and I were cycling in Lixouri this past weekend and we found two kittens thrown away in the dumpster. They are four weeks old and so very sweet.
I know you have a lot of experience finding homes and I wondered if you could post this and advise me where else we could post.
Thank you,
Chanel
Further, she added…
These two lovely sibling kittens (left girl, right boy) are looking for a qualified, responsible family to give them love. They were found in a trash can and now they are in a temporarily home in Mavrata (Kefalonia, Greece). They are approximately 3-4 weeks old, they are clean, flea-free, and already friendly with other cats and dogs.
If you are interested please call (00 30) 694 9941 409 [Greek mobile number].
Please share to find loving homes for these cute babies.
International adoptions to qualified homes are pawssible.
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Katerina Lorenzatos Makris is a career journalist, author, and editor. Her fiction includes 17 novels for Simon and Schuster, E.P. Dutton, Avon, and other major publishers (under the name Kathryn Makris), as well as a teleplay for CBS-TV, and a short story for The Bark magazine. She has written hundreds of articles for regional wire services and for outlets such as National Geographic Traveler, The San Francisco Chronicle, Travelers’ Tales, NBC’s Petside.com, Animal Issues Reporter.org, and Examiner.com (Animal Policy Examiner).
