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VERGENNES, Vt. - Imagine the shock at Country Home Products when workers opened a box and five kittens came squirming out.
A customer in South Carolina had wanted to return a brush trimmer - a gas-powered machine that cuts grass, weeds and brush - and accidentally sent the kitties along in the FedEx box for the two-day trip to Vermont.
"My co-worker Alan Bean opened the box. Something moved. He jumped and he looked in again and there was five kittens," said Deb Peters, who works in the Country Home returns department. advertisement
The kittens are doing fine. The box had been stored in a barn, and the customer apparently sealed the box without looking inside, Peters said.
After opening the box Wednesday, Country Home employees dashed to the nearby Vergennes Animal Hospital and returned with bottles of kitten formula, which the kittens devoured.
The 3-week-old kittens were taken to Addison County Humane Society. Hazel, a black domestic cat whose kittens had just been weaned, is now a surrogate mother, providing a steady diet until they can eat solid food, said Jill Tucker, executive director of the Humane Society.
Peters, who already has three cats, said she wants to adopt the Siamese-looking kitten.
"The husband's not too keen on it," she said, "but this is kind of a special one, you know?"
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wow! you've got to be a complete IDIOT to ACCIDENTLY pack kittens in a box instead of a brush trimmer! but
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Just think of the poor momma cat at home who's babies are suddenly missing....
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Note to self:
Keep the bloody cats out of the office...
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