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I was working at a barn where someone had dropped off a very teeny and very pregnant cat. She was super sweet but disappeared almost as quickly as she had been dropped off, so we assumed she was somewhere giving birth and hiding her kittens. For a few weeks we would see her off and on, slinking around the barn but never giving up a clue to where the kittens were.

KITTENS. PHOTO: ADOBE STOCK/Галина Сандалова

One day, we noticed no one had seen her in over a week. The barn manager scoffed and said it was "Just as well, because if he ever found those kittens, they were going straight into a burlap sack and into the river." I was disappointed to hear this and hoped for a better outcome.

A few days later, I was walking by the chicken coop when I heard these tiny meows coming from inside the wall. BINGO! The kittens! I spent over an hour trying to catch these tiny kittens that would tentatively poke their heads out only to duck back into the wall, but persistence paid off.

Here were two teeny ~6-week-old balls of fluff. Since I knew their potential fate, I whisked them away to my house where I told my husband, "I don't know what I am going to do with them, but I couldn't let them die in the river."

Fast forward one year, we kept both kittens, Rhino and Daisy, brother and sister, partners in crime and my snuggle buddies. Rhino has a personality as big as his namesake and Daisy is sweet and gentle. I sometimes wonder if I had not been the one to find them that day, would they really have been tossed in the river? I'm just glad we will never know that answer.

PHOTO: DESSA FROM PINE, CO

Story submitted by Dessa from Pine, Colorado.

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