‘I’m grateful to have been a part of their rescue and to help them find loving forever homes.’: The heartfelt rescue of three paint covered kittens ends in heartwarming success and a few painter inspired names

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 6, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Kitten rescues are a terrible thing to have to deal with. Now, we are not talking about the kind of kitten rescue that involves a basket filled with feline bundles being dropped off at a local animal shelter. We are talking about finding vulnerable kittens in terrible situations who need tons of help to get them back on their feet, or even just to keep them clinging on to lifelong enough that they manage to make a recovery.

Which is what our heroic cat rescuer had to do when she came across three kittens who at the tender age of two weeks were left in a dumpster covered in paint. And with some paint-staking work, our hero nursed them back to health. It is safe to say that both the kittens and hoomanity as a whole are ever so lucky to have people like this story's rescuer.
 

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    The night they were found when I met our volunteer at the office, Jack was mistaken for dead by 2 people, thank god they still grabbed him you can see how weak
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    and lethargic he was in the video The paint was already dry when they were found so they had to have
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    been in the dumpster awhile before the boy heard them, less than 2 weeks old...kittens that young need milk every couple of hours, it was
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    essential we got them nutrients as quickly as possible. I ripped open a can of KMR and syringe fed the kittens at the office before the vet even got there, but
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  • Wow, what a harrowing condition to find a thrupple of rescue kittens. At such a tender and young age, cats usually do not last all too long without their mother, which is what makes this story rather remarkable, as they managed to hold on to what little hope they might have had in order to live another day.

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    after they went home with me I offered wet food mixed with kmr and to my delight, despite being weak and barely escaping death, Jack started to eat...that gave me
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    hope it wasn't too late and that his organs hadn't started shutting down yet
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    Unable to bathe or shave them, and with every trick in the book like oil and dawn not working on dried paint, it had
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    to be carefully combed and snipped out. Which took me days. But I like to think they. knew I was there to help as even though it pinched and pulled a few times, those kittens sat through it like
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  • Yooo, that sounds terrible, laborious and painful for everyone involved. It can be truly shocking how on the one hand some people can be so cruel and callous as to dump a delightful clouder of kittens, while another person can be so kind and caring as to clean up the first person’s mess.

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    champs and let me clean them The transformation was incredible
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    Leo the biggest kitten was adopted 18 days ago and this is what he looked like the day he left
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    I thought it suiting to name them all after painters so there was Leonardo, Remmy, and Jackson. I'm grateful to have been a part of their rescue and to help them find loving forever
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    homes. Good luck guys, I'll miss you Edit: If the 8th picture isn't showing up, here is the final picture of what the last two kittens looked like when they were adopted,
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    to a nice family with 2 children and lots of room to run :)
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