Kittens dumped by river receive refuge with cat loving couple after days of fear alone in wilderness, but the choice between adopting them and a finding furever home proves tougher than expected: ‘We honestly are considering keeping them’

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Aug 12, 2026 10:15 AM EDT

In this day and age you can expect to find dumped kittens in almost any and all locations that life might take you. Be it the mall, the museum, the market or the river as it was in this case, you never quite know where a lost kitten will meet you. The question is whether you are ready to meet it.

Now you might be wondering why we would ask such an obvious question, of course everyone is ready to meet the kitten of their life in a sweet meet cute that they totally weren't expecting. But as we come to find out in this story, if you have not thought things all the way through you might find yourself in a pawsition that your were not prepawed for as was the case for this couple when they suddenly found themselves questioning whether they should keep or rehome the kittens in their care. But our story does not start there, it begins on a quaint riverside trail with a couple walking their dog. Upon hearing some rustling in the grass they turned their attention to the direction from which the sound was coming and found themselves looking straight at two cute kittens who could not have been more than a few weeks old.

With no momma cat around and the evening drawing in the couple quickly got to work capturing the timid but friendly kittens so that they could bring them home and give them a safe place to lay their weary heads for a night. But as mentioned before this was about as far as this couple had thought about the kittens, assuming that they would rehome them and that would be the end of it. But after cuddles and purrs that made the fluffy felines fall asleep, feelings of love began to brew and a whole new set of problems arose.

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It is so wonderful when a feline rescue just goes smoothly like this. No one has to get panicked or worried about what might happen if the cat is not captured fast enough. Everything just rolls along smoothly as nature, or if you like, the cat distribution system has set things up to be. It just hurts the heart to imagine how harrowing it must have been for the pair to be temporarily separated. On the one hand the sister who is scared to take the leap and trust these hoomans, on the other her bonded brother being away from her already in their grasp. It's like Sofie’s Choice.
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Well, it seems that this story is one big old Sofie’s Choice, now faced with the potential of keeping the cute couple of cats, these hoomans have to make up their mind about whether they keep the cute kittens who were carefully chosen for them, or do they heartlessly leave them to another family. Ok, well not heartlessly, but anyone with even half a heart would be heartbroken to have to give away kittens that they had saved from the dangers of the wild. We certainly would not be able to give them up.
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