Kittens Rescued from Construction Site Show Up at Salem Shelter

Three “little balls of fur” showed up at Northeast Animal Shelter on Highland Avenue in Salem on Friday afternoon - hours before the start of the Labor Day weekend - after the kittens were rescued from a work site in Peabody.

The man who rescued them, who was named Stephen, according to a post by the animal shelter, had put them in a “a dirty looking five-gallon bucket.” They were about 4 weeks old and without their mother.

“There was no mother cat around and he knew he couldn’t just leave them behind, unprotected, when he went home at the end of the day,” according to the shelter.

The shelter’s clinic staff looked over the kittens, cleaned them up and fed them.

To read the rest of Northeast Animal Shelter’s post, including why Stephen returned to the shelter about a half hour later with his bucket, go to its website. To see a video of the kittens, look below.

Kittens from Northeast Animal Shelter on Vimeo.