5 kittens narrowly escape a flood, getting rescued just in time by a cat lover and her devoted kitten-nanny doggo: 'It was meant to be'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 22, 2026 3:30 PM EDT

Mother Nature nearly claimed this freshly-born litter of kittens, but not when there's a heroic cat-lover on watch!

After their stray mother was scared off by thunder and an electric crackle in the air, these 5 kittens were left to fend for themselves. Barely able to open their beady little eyes and incapable of doing much more than wriggling around their nest, the incoming winter storm wasn't looking hopeful for this brood of kittens. 

Luckily, the Cat Distribution System heard their tiny mews for help, and the CDS immediately dispatched a rescue team to save them: A cat lover and her faithful, friendly doggo. 

It's not every day that cat lovers are given an oppawtunity to be heroes, but when this woman found a clutch of soaking wet, trembling little kittens, she stepped up to the plate. Without hesitation, she scooped the babies up, quickly traipsing around the basement to find a mother who wasn't there. 

She was their new meowther now. 

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  • "CDS left my deliveries out in the rain"

    Huge storm rolled through on Tuesday night. We heard crying, and at 11pm in a torrential downpour we found 5 kittens in a rapidly flooding den under our house. If we'd
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  • been any later, they wouldn't have made it - one of them was literally swimming when I scooped it up! A few chaotic hours later--
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  • what do newborn kittens eat? How do we feed them? What stores are even open right now? Where did we put that electric blanket?--we
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  • whipped up some "emergency DIY kitten formula" from a recipe we found online, fed them with syringes, and managed to keep them alive until we could get
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  • proper kitten formula at 6am when Walmart opened. Today is day 6 with the kittens, and Kitten Lady's website is our
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  • With a lot of help from the fabled and famous Kitten Lady's kitten care guide and some kind reassurance from folks on the Internet, this newbie meowther of 5 quickly became the hero that she was destined to become, and when you're a hero to kittens, you'll never truly hang up your cape for retirement. That's the kind of kind-hearted heroism that never leaves your soul. 

    Because once this woman saved the budding lives of a handful of baby kittens, they were meowternally grateful to her, returning her kindness with a lifetime of love, affection, and head-nudges for the rest of their days. All they had to do was survive a harrowing night of madness, chaos, and scary thunder, and they'd be home free and have a warm bed for the rest of their lives. 

    C'mon, little kittens, you can do it! A friendly woman and her stinky doggo nanny are here to pawtect you from the storm of the century. Alas, keep scrolling for the entire fateful tale that turned one woman's home into a daycare center for unweaned, adorable, furball kittens who were just grateful to see another golden sunrise. 

  • bible. All of them are steadily gaining weight, and they learned to purr on Saturday! My heart is going to burst out of my
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  • chest. I may be horrifically sleep deprived, but this is the most rewarding thing I've done in a long time!
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  • The kicker: three weeks ago, my brother was trying to convince me to take a cat his friend found, but I insisted that I couldn't handle a third animal--I already have a dog and a cat. CDS
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  • doesn't make mistakes, my delivery was still being prepared. Now I have 7 animals, and 5 of them have to be bottle- fed and manually stimulated to potty.
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  • And in case anyone asks: haven't found mama cat.
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  • OrenMythcreant ⚫ Oh wow, that is a lot of work. Thank you for stepping up and saving them! Praise be to Kitten Lady for having such great info easily available.
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  • storeboughtse... Thanks for rescuing these precious babies. I you can find mama and get her spayed so she doesn't have to go through this again. The storm musta kicked her into labor and maybe she panicked as it got worse
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  • Diligent Snow... Thank you for stepping up and being such a great human! Ive had my share of puppies and kittens that weren't mine. Its funny because I
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  • always spay or neuter all my animals as soon as possible because for various reasons but honestly, so I dont have to deal with puppies and kittens. Yet I've had it
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  • happen to often. I admire your sleep deprived post. I had puppies that had to be fed every 2 hours. It made me get to know my neighbors and they offered to help. It
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  • was great. Right now it will be kittens soon from a pregnant cat who was dumped. Why do some people s ck when it comes to innocent
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  • animals. The abandonment is heartbreaking ♥
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  • Dry_Tap_169. Ahh you've got them looking so healthy and content And 5 of them is a lot of work! Thank you for saving their tiny lives.
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  • AGAB_nb89 OP It feels like it was meant to be, because the timing is such that my husband and I can both WFH for the next couple weeks while they're especially needy and delicate!
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