{"id":96,"date":"2025-03-03T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:32:14","slug":"people-find-12-abandoned-kittens-shivering-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/people-find-12-abandoned-kittens-shivering-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"People Find 12 Abandoned Kittens Shivering In The Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For most, the 14 inches of snow that blanketed Campbell County, Virginia, was merely an inconvenience, but for 12 little lives the\u00a0freezing temperatures<\/a>\u00a0were the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n

Just as the light was beginning to fade in the early evening on December 12, a passerby spotted a metal crate sticking out of a snow mound. With no houses nearby, the cage stuck out like a sore thumb and the Good Samaritan knew something was very wrong.<\/p>\n

As the person approached, she saw six cats shivering inside the crate, but even more troubling were the four tiny kittens outside the cage in the snow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Friends of Campbell County Animal Control<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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When Melissa Labryer, an animal control officer, arrived at the scene, she immediately spotted the babies, who appeared to be 5 or 6 weeks old, lying lifeless in the white powder. Labryer quickly moved all the\u00a0freezing cats<\/a>\u00a0into dry carriers and headed to the nearest animal shelter.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018I need help! I have frozen cats and I need some volunteers to help me back at the shelter,\u2019\u201d Labryer told a shelter volunteer, according to Barbe Shackelford, director of\u00a0Friends of Campbell County Animal Control<\/a>\u00a0(FOCCAC).<\/p>\n

\u201c[Labryer] mentioned there were 12 cats in need of revival,\u201d Shackelford told The Dodo. \u201cSo the volunteer who got the call quickly put out a request for assistance from any other volunteers who happened to be currently logged in to the Facebook Messenger chat group.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Friends of Campbell County Animal Control<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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