Construction worker finds a litter of injured kittens on the job site, takes them to the vet on his lunch break, and ends up saving 1 tortie with the help of a retired couple in the waiting room: ‘He was sooo gentle’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 3, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

Kittens can find themselves in the darndest places. Stuck in their curious adolescent dog, feline babies are not only over-equipped to climb up the highest trees or burrow deep into the narrowest drainage pipes, they're not exactly smart enough to get themselves out of purrcarious pawsitions. But that's where helpful hoomans come into play.

This construction worker was not the kind of man you'd expect to be cuddling up to the smolest kitten, but when a litter of kitties caught in the wrong place at the wrong time turned up on the job site, he stepped up to be a hero. With rough, workman's hands and a soft, cat lover soul, he managed to save 1 lucky tortie who will always have a place to call home from now on—all thanks to one strong man who skipped a meal on his lunch break to take the kitten to the vet.

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    This little one had a rough CDS delivery One lucky little kitten
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    Yesterday my wife and I were at the vet to get one of our community cats his rabies vaccine and flea meds. He's a very laidback old guy, with TNR sometime in his past, who hangs out on our block.
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    We were still in the waiting room when a young guy came through the door carrying a box. He was a construction worker from a site nearby, and the entire work crew were in emotional pieces after finding
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    a litter of kittens who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Only two out of the litter were still alive, and one of them was obviously hurt. The worker was there on his lunch hour, so limited time, but the clinic
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    schedule was already backed due to an earlier emergency and there was no guarantee anyone could see him for hours. He looked at a loss as to what to do next.
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    So we stepped in and volunteered to cover the appointment with our own and hold the kittens (which he was willing to take home) until he got off work. We're retired, which means we have only ourselves to answer to.
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    Quick exchange of numbers and off he went. Sadly, the vet soon determined that the little void kitten couldn't be saved, but the x-rays for the tortie showed all bones intact. He sent us
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    home with meds to relieve any inflammation of her muscles and the standard instructions for a 4-week- old kitten: warmth, food, and rest. We picked up a carton of KMR on our
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    way home and managed two syringe feedings over the next few hours. Poor thing, mostly she slept. But next time I set her down with a shallow dish and to our relief she dove right in, lapping up the milk on her own, so
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    obviously she was already gaining strength. When her new owner arrived that evening, I was torn handing her over, but any anxiety I felt was quickly allayed. He had cats already, he was sooo gentle with the little tortie, and there was a room he could put her in to keep her separate.
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    This morning he sent the photo above and reports that she's alert and hungry! She's landed in a good forever home and hopefully her little kitten brain will forget all the trauma of yesterday.
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    (For anyone wondering why we didn't just keep her, we already have four cats and a dog. We're also at the age where a young cat is probably going to outlive us, and so we'd much rather have a kitten go to a good home with younger people.)
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    CarcharhinusFelix • You, sir, are a good person. Somehow I feel like someone has been cutting onions nearby. Godspeed to the small tortie. And good luck to her future staff; in my experience of torties, they'll need it!
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    darkest_irish_lass Handing over that kitten to the soft hearted construction worker will also help him heal. Sometimes bad things happen and animals die on construction sites. It's no one's fault, but the guilt and sorrow is real.
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    botgeek1 Both you and the construction guy are great people!
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    myironlions ⚫ You are good people and exemplify what it means to be true members of a community. You helped not only the cats today (your original buddy you brought in, the void who deserved an end to their suffering
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    in as compassionate a manner as possible, and this little tortie lady who needed a paw up to be ready to ascend her throne of tortitude) but the humans, too. I'm sure the vet staff struggles when they are in
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    these situations - your being there and offering your assistance to this gentleman helped them have a brighter day, helped him feel less powerless, and helped his colleagues process what they saw.
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    And now you've helped a bunch of internet strangers refill their faith in humanity and hope for a better tomorrow. Thanks friend! It's things like this that remind us that no matter what else we deal with, there's love, wisdom, capability, and kindness out there.
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