Animals have such caring instincts towards young ones, stepping up to be a parent for babies that aren’t even their own.
Like a cat who is being called “the most responsible kitten in the world” after keeping a close eye on three newborns.
According to a post from the KC Pet Project, a rescue organization in Kansas City, Missouri, the six-week-old black kitten was found with three newborn kittens — and the person who found her says the older cat has been caring for the babies.
Posted by KC Pet Project on Friday, May 20, 2022
It’s unclear if the older kitten is the newborn’s sibling or what happened to their mother. But the cat took his role as new guardian very seriously, and the KC Pet Project called him “the world’s most responsible kitten.”
“We think this is just about the cutest thing ever,” they wrote on Facebook.
They were such an adorable family unit that no one could bear to separate them: they were all placed together in a foster home, where they would stay until they were old enough to be adopted.
According to HuffPost, the kitten responsible was named Binx, and the kittens were named Ollie, Frankie, and Ziggy.
Tori Fugate, a spokesperson for the KC Pet Project, told the outlet that although newborns need milk from the mother cat or bottle-fed by humans, to survive, the male kitten did his best to take care of them and that they are “all doing very well so far”. Now in foster care, Binx continues to keep an eye on the little ones.
What a sweet and responsible kitten. We’re so glad these newborns had someone looking after them, and that they’re all safe and together now.
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