Kitten Rescue Photo Gallery by Robert Peszek at pbase.com

Kitten Rescue

While biking to our local library, we heard meowing noises coming from a street water drain. There were 2 tiny starved kittens in it. The kittens looked very young (vet later told us 4 weeks old!). No sign of cat mom. We started feeding them and looking for someone who can adopt them. After a night of heavy rain we decided we can not just leave them there and started a rescue operation (as shown on some of the pictures).
We have 2 grown up cats (see neighboring gallery) and cannot adopt more cats -- so we are searching for a good home for them. In this gallery we refer to our little friends as number 1 and number 2. We do not want to give them names other than temporary ones– we think it is best that their new human parents will do that. It is amazing - they did not act like feral cats at all! Within minutes of being "rescued", they are ready to snuggle with us, investigate the surroundings, and play!

This journey has its ups and downs. We are learning more about our little friends each day and we don't have enough space to describe all of it on this page.

All picture titles ending with ... indicate additional comments next to that picture. One picture per day will have More... at the end and we will put our daily notes on that one.

Both kittens how have found their forever homes. Pictures on page 5 show Galadriel and Gimli with their new human parents. We decided to finish with Good Bye Gimli series showing Gimli's last week with us.
Thank You to everyone who wrote us kind words of encouragement!

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Day1. Drain Rescue Mission...	Day 1. Number 1 in the drain ...	Day 1. We got Number 2 ...	Day 1, Number 2 in his new home. More...	Day 2. Number 2 in a box take 1
Day 2. Number 2 in a box take 2	Day 2. New rescue equipment ...	Day 2. Number 1 is home too!!!! More...	Day 2. No 1 and new uncle	Day 2. Number 1
Day 2. No 1.	Day 2. No 1 bath	Day 2. No 1 bath.	Day 2. No 1 after bath	Day 2. Number 1 after bath
Day 2. No 1 Enjoying good comb	Day 2. No 2 bath.	Day 2. No 2 after bath.	Day 2. No 1 after bath.	Day 2. Number 1 massage
Day 2. Number 2	Day 2. Number 2	Day 2. Number 1 snuggling with new Aunt	Day 2, Number 1	Day 2, No 1
Day 2. No 1	Day 3. Snuggling Together. More...	Day3. No 2 cleaning his aunt	Day3. No 2 sleepy ...	Day 3. No 2
Day 3	Day 3. Nice ceiling fan!	Day 3. No 2	Day 3. At play	Day 3, No 1. First laser pointer encounter
Day 3. No 2 at play	Day 3. BIG CATS	Day 3. No 2	Day 3. New bookself item	Day 3. Lapcats
Day 3. Lapcats take 2	Day 4. Skinny Mountain Athlete. More ...	Day 4. With uncle Jumanji	Day 5. Things are looking up. More...	Day 5. No 2
Day 5. Little Rascals	Day 5. Ferocious	Day 5. The War of Slippers	Day 6. Brother and Sister. More ...	Day 6. No 1 in full combat position
Day 6. Ferocious cat is close	Day 6. Ferocious cat is closer	Day 6. Run, run, run	Day 6. brush treatment	Day 6. Looking good.
Day 7. Sneeking on her brother. More ...	Day 7. Climbers can jump too ...	Day 7. Chewing on bean bag.	Day 7. Thoughfull	Day 7. Fight take 1
Day 7. Fight take 2	Day 8. Little flying squirrel. More...	Day 9. About Little Tykes' Names	Day 9-10. Little Round Toy. More...	Day 11-12. Elastic series Part 1
Day 11-12. Elastic series Part 2	Day 11-12. Elastic series Part 3. More...	Day 13. Shoe Series - 1. More...	Day 13. Shoe Series - 2	Day 13. Shoe Series - 3
Day 14. Big Cat. More ...	Day 14. Purina, Eat your heart out	Week 3. Confusion in Battle. More ...	Week 3, Galadriel 2nd bath	Week 3. Galadriel afer bath. More ...
Week 3. Taking over Aunt Heiffer Toy	Week 4. One more vet visit. More...	Yabadabadoo! More...	Older, Week 3 action picture	Horses may have all 4 hooves above the ground, I have 4 paws and a toy ball!
Just melting viewer's heart	Decision Time. More …	Week 5. Galadriel's new Parents - 1. More ...	Week 5. Galadriel's new parents - 2.	Week 6. Gimil's new Parents - 1.
Week 6. Gimli's new Parents - 2. More ...	Bye Gimli Series. We will miss you! More ...	Bye Gimli Series. Look how much I have grown ...	Bye Gimli - Walking in the Air.	Bye Gimli - Tail Pivot Trick
Bye Gimli - Modern Dance Series 1	Bye Gimli - Modern Dance 2	Bye Gimli - No Gimli is no Rapper!	Thank You for the applause!	Mouse Prayer
Husaria Take 1 ...	Husaria Take 2	Ferocious	Bye Gimli - Last Picture for now. More...

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Cynthia (Cindy) Sutcliffe		20-Jul-2015 19:53
What a wonderful series of adorable kittens who now live happily ever after.

Vickie BROWN		27-Sep-2011 13:58
Outstanding works of this gallery! V

Linda & Pär Johansson		17-Aug-2010 18:04
A sad but happy ending story! Many great pictures too.

Guest		02-Sep-2008 04:06
What a wonderfully heartwarming story and happy ending!

Guest		01-Sep-2008 16:03
Loved the photos and the kitties. I hope they find good homes. They should be hard for any animal lover to resist.... so cute!

Suzette A Paduano		01-Sep-2008 13:06
John these are wonderful and heart felt! V

Guest		31-Aug-2008 21:51
btw . . I meant . . . it is good that you are doing this work to help them AND bring their plight to others through your photos . . hopefully it will teach others to do the same (rescue)

Guest		30-Aug-2008 01:37
good for you! . . . honestly!

routerer		24-Aug-2008 19:28
Great Story and Great Pics too. john + V

Guest		29-Jul-2008 00:52
Awesome shots! So adorable and amazing pictures. Such a wonderful thing that you did, but then who could be so heartless to NOT help them. If I was in NJ I would certainly take one, but I am in Seattle. Thanks for saving them, I am sure it will be hard to give them away. MeLissa

Rachel Pennington		27-Jul-2008 02:07
You guys ROCK! It's rare you hear a story with a happy ending like this (well, close to an ending anyway). They are so cute and if I lived close by (I'm in Georgia), I'd happily adopt one of your angels. :)

Guest		23-Jul-2008 12:18
Beautiful story, and thanks to you and your wife for rescuing them. I hope that they find a forever home very soon.

Bob Reynolds		22-Jul-2008 00:56
Great story and very cute kittens. It's nice to see that they have such loving and caring rescuers. Hope they both find a good home.

Judith Barnett		21-Jul-2008 17:16
I hope these beautiful babies go to a home as wonderful as yours and hopefully they can stay together.

Guest		20-Jul-2008 21:20
Well done, bravo to your and your wife for the rescue!

Digipets		20-Jul-2008 20:38
These are exceptionally beautiful babies. You should tell people where you live they could contact you about adoption. Isabel

Guest		19-Jul-2008 02:53
Your photos are just beautiful and how you were able to capture this probably ever moving target is beyond me. It reminded me of my Charlotte that I rescued at around 3 weeks of life ... 13 years later she is one big (16 pounds) happy cat!

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