KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A kitten is on the mend after surviving a journey in a shipping container.
On Wednesday, an employee of a Kansas City, Missouri, shipping company brought a kitten they had found in a shipping container to the KC Pet Project, shelter officials said in a Facebook post. The kitten was found with two other kittens, which had died.
The employee said the kitten was found in a container that usually isn't opened for one to two weeks -- meaning it survived roughly that entire time.
This is an incredible story of survival. Late yesterday afternoon, KC Pet Project had a kitten brought to our shelter by a Kansas City, MO resident who works for a local shipping company. They had found three kittens in one of the containers on site – two were deceased and a third was remarkably still alive. The individual who brought the kitten in worked for the company and said that the container in which they were found is the type that may not be opened for 1-2 weeks. Which means that the kitten has survived being in the container for a long time. Our veterinary team immediately rushed to emergency treatment. He was incredibly dehydrated and starving so we administered fluids and tried to get him to eat bites of soft food. After an afternoon of fluids, a veterinary technician for KC Pet Project took him home overnight and reported that he did eat last night and this morning. He’s starting to make an incredible recovery and we have named him Cargo. Please consider a gift to support him and his medical treatment. He has a long way to go but we’re hopefully this little survivor will pull through!
Posted by KC Pet Project on Thursday, June 27, 2019
Shelter staff named the male kitten “Cargo.” He was starving and severely hydrated, so staff got to work administering emergency treatment to him. After giving Cargo fluids Wednesday afternoon, a veterinary technician took him home and got him to eat some food.
Cargo is now on the road to recovery, the post said.
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